With a release date set and writers working on the movie for the past few months, it seems like the Power Rangers reboot is moving along. But what could the plot be about and could it be similar to another Power Rangers movie?

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With the movie being a reboot of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, writers Ashley Miller and Zack Stenz could pull from the previous shows' movie and use that as a template for the newly rebooted one.

In the first movie, the Rangers participate with Bulk and Skull in a charity sky dive for the Angel Grove observatory, in anticipation of Ryan's Comet which will pass by in two days. Having waited too long, Bulk and Skull accidentally land in a construction site, where a giant egg has been uncovered; it zaps any who touch it.

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Alerted by the evil energy, Zordon informs the Rangers that a shape-shifter known as Ivan Ooze was trapped and buried in it 6,000 years ago by "a group of young warriors like themselves", to keep him from conquering the universe. The Rangers are to bury it again, but Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd release him before they arrive. He has "Oozemen" fight the Rangers, while he attacks the Command Center; the damage disables their powers and leaves Zordon dying outside his time-warp.

Alpha sends them to the planet Phaedos to look for the Great Power to save Zordon and defeat Ivan. Ivan double-crosses Rita and Zedd, trapping them in a snow globe; Goldar and Mordant swear allegiance to him out of fear.

This sounds like a reasonable plot for the first movie to be based on. It would allow for a brief introduction at the beginning and then go straight into a similar plot with the Rangers having to team up in order to stop Ivan Ooze.

Power Rangers is set to open in theaters on July 22, 2016.

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