The original Black Power Ranger will reprise that role in a fan film being created by established Topeka performer Dané Shobe.
Shobe is joining forces to create that film, titled Black, with Walter Emanuel Jones, the first actor to play Black Power Ranger Zack Taylor in the 1990s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series.
Jones expressed excitement about the film in a video posted recently on Shobe s personal Facebook page. It is a socially conscious Power Rangers fan film unlike anything you guys have seen before, Jones said. So keep a lookout, guys. It s coming up.
Shobe is mounting a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to finance the film. He said most scenes will be shot in Topeka, while those featuring Jones will be filmed in Los Angeles, where Jones lives.
On Dec. 2, 2002, My Fault-1, a user on the 3D animation forum CGTalk,
sat down with his family to watch a football game. During one commercial break, he flipped channels to The WB, where instead of the usual fare of teen dramas was
Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa, an animated Christmas movie unlike anything he had ever seen.
The heartwarming story, festive music, and cute animation were nowhere to be found. This was a surreal vision of the Christmas special on par with
Plan 9 from Outer Space or
The Room. In
Rapsittie Street Kids, characters’ bodies had the blocky stature of an upright juice box. Their faces barely registered as human, in a queasy contrast with their realistically flesh-colored lips. The soulless world around them was made of muddy, repeating textures painted onto 3D objects, like the Matrix by way of a GeoCities page.