Watch the New Power Rangers Short Film

Joseph Kahn, director of Torque and Detention, and Adi Shankar, producer of Dredd, The Grey and Lone Survivor, have teamed up to produce a “bootleg short film“ of the popular 90s children’s action show The Mighty Morphing Power Rangers.

The short film, titled Power/Rangers, features Dawson’s Creek‘s James Van Der Beek and Battlestar Galactic’s Katee Sackhoff as Kimberly. The film takes place well after the high school teenage years of the power rangers and focuses on what became of the various intergalactic fighters as retold by Kimberly in an interrogation.

Watch Interview: Joseph Kahn, Director of “Detention”

The short is action packed and filled with impressive visual graphics reminiscent of a Michael Bay film.

This is Adi Shankar’s third live action bootleg short film. He previously produced a short with Thomas Jane reprising his role as The Punisher in Dirty Laundry and featured True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten as Spider-Man villain Venom in Truth in Journalism.

Mighty Morphing Power Rangers was one of Adi Shankar’s favorite shows as a kid and he wanted to explore the aspect of “high schools students being recruited…to fight this intergalactic war that they really have nothing to do with. How is that any different from child soldiers?…They’re going to have PTSD…” The film has an overall dark tone that echos this sentiment.

After the video was released online, Vimeo pulled it from their website even though it’s still available on YouTube. Joseph Kahn responded on Twitter writing: