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# This _Power Rangers_ Fan Film Stars James Van Der Beek and Katee Sackhoff

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## Rishi Iyengar


Feb 25, 2015 8:37 AM UTC

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[Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/)


## Rishi Iyengar


Feb 25, 2015 8:37 AM UTC

There’s a new _Power Rangers_ fan film, and it’s probably not something your parents would have let you watch as a kid.

The 14-minute fan film, described by its creators as a “deboot of the Power Rangers,” has been produced by Adi Shankar and is directed by Joseph Kahn — the guy behind the movie _Torque_ and Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” music video.

It stars _Dawson’s Creek_ actor James Van Der Beek as Rocky, the former Red Ranger who betrays his teammates to the enemy, and _Battlestar Galactica_’s Katee Sackhoff as Pink Ranger Kimberly. It also has the kind of blood, gore and sexuality that would be more at home on _Game of Thrones_. And this isn’t even the R-rated version that was found on Vimeo.

“Not a pilot, not a series, not for profit, strictly for exhibition. This is a bootleg experiment…” the film’s disclaimer adds.

But that’s not how Haim Saban, the owner of the _Power Rangers_ franchise and co-producer of an upcoming reboot of the series, sees it. [According to Deadline.com](http://deadline.com/2015/02/power-rangers-fan-video-legal-fight-haim-saban-joseph-kahn-1201380926/), Kahn, who insists he has not infringed copyright laws, alleges he is being “harassed” by Saban.

“It is just as if I drew a pic of Power Rangers on a napkin and I gave it to my friend,” said Kahn in a series of outraged [tweets](https://twitter.com/JosephKahn/status/570335089193668608). “Is it illegal to give pic I drew of a character on a napkin to someone for free? No.”

Vimeo has reportedly taken down the original version after a complaint from Saban Brands, but the “safe-for-work version” on YouTube still exists and has been viewed over 2.5 million times in two days.

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