--- title: 'Power Rangers' Fan Film Stars James Van Der Beek and Katee Sackhoff description: The 14-minute fan film, described by as a “deboot,” is directed by Joseph Kahn — the guy behind Taylor Swift’s "Blank Space" video. canonical: https://time.com/3721620/power-rangers-fan-film-joseph-kahn-james-van-der-beek-haim-saban-reboot/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-25T08:37:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:11.024Z og:title: This 'Power Rangers' Fan Film Has Gone Viral og:description: And it's definitely not for kids og:url: https://time.com/3721620/power-rangers-fan-film-joseph-kahn-james-van-der-beek-haim-saban-reboot/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This 'Power Rangers' Fan Film Has Gone Viral twitter:description: And it's definitely not for kids twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This _Power Rangers_ Fan Film Stars James Van Der Beek and Katee Sackhoff by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Feb 25, 2015 8:37 AM UTC by [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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3721620/power-rangers-fan-film-joseph-kahn-james-van-der-beek-haim-saban-reboot/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3721620/power-rangers-fan-film-joseph-kahn-james-van-der-beek-haim-saban-reboot/"},"headline":"This Power Rangers Fan Film Stars James Van Der Beek and Katee Sackhoff","datePublished":"2015-02-25T08:37:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:11.024Z","description":"And it's definitely not for kids","url":"https://time.com/3721620/power-rangers-fan-film-joseph-kahn-james-van-der-beek-haim-saban-reboot/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","franchise"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3721620/power-rangers-fan-film-joseph-kahn-james-van-der-beek-haim-saban-reboot/","name":"This Power Rangers Fan Film Stars James Van Der Beek and Katee Sackhoff"}}]}] ```