The “bootleg,” in producer Adi Shankar’s term, is the product of a thought experiment: How would fighting an intergalactic war really affect some high schoolers? (In the original candy-colored showwhich reused some campy Japanese programminga group of teens gets drafted to battle aliens.)
“How is that any different from child soldiers, man? That’s super f***ed-up,” Shankar, the producer of “The Grey” and “Dredd,” says in an accompanying video. “They’re going to have PTSD, and they’re going have the most f***ed-up lives.”
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Kahn has fought back on Twitter.
“Every image in ‘Power/Rangers’ is original footage,” he posted in a series of tweets. “Nothing was pre-existing. There is no copyrighted footage in the short. I am not making any money on it and I refuse to accept any from anyone. It was not even kickstarted, I paid for it myself.”
