Bryan Cranston to join 'Power Rangers' as Zordon

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By Darian Scalamoni

     When you think about some of the most popular television series of the 90s, especially for kids, one of the first things that come to my mind is the Power Rangers. The Power Rangers were a group of high school kids who are mostly ordinary but become something more than that to fight aliens, monsters and evil forces.

As young kids, there always needs to be a leader to put them in the right direction and within the show/movies there was Zordon. Zordon was a giant disembodied head who was the Rangers mentor from day one and now, he’s been cast for the new movie hitting theaters next year. Per Joblo, Bryan Cranston has been cast as Zordon in Power Rangers. It’s interesting to note that ever since Cranston was seen playing the meth-cooking, cancer ridden science teacher in Breaking Bad, he’s been looked at for many roles that would warrant his bald head from the show. One of the bigger roles he was courted for earlier was Lex Luthor in Batman v. Superman before the role went to Jesse Eisenberg.

Saban’s Power Rangers will be released in theaters on March 24^th, 2017. The cast also includes Dacre Montgomery, RJ Cyler, Naomi Scott, Becky G and Ludi Lin as the Rangers, as well as Elizabeth Banks as Rita Repulsa.