Along with Banks, Bryan Cranston will portray the Rangers’ mentor Zordon and Bill Hader is voicing the robotic (and now even more bizarre-looking) assistant Alpha 5.
While it would have been interesting to at least see audition footage of Amy Jo Johnson channeling a crazy villain, it makes since that Elizabeth Banks was cast as Rita Repulsa in Power Rangers.
Because the five actors playing the eponymous heroes are relative unknown, the movie needs Hollywood names as support and to attract people who aren’t diehard Power Rangers fans.
While it would be cool if Johnson was able to cameo in one of the sequels, hopefully it wouldn’t be something as blatant and obvious as what Ghostbusters did earlier this year.