| Power Rangers Revelations Archive, Part 1 |
[Jun. 29th, 2003|05:03 am] |
I'm just doing this for archiving purposes. It includes info like there was a DVD commentary made for Forever Red but was never used, Disney has an early version of Forever Red that lasts nearly 40 minutes, and other cast problems for example. I don't even know what's true and what isn't. If you want to read, go ahead. I bet it will take quite a while though...
CLFunaro: Foam rubber falls apart.
CLFunaro: These suits aren't meant to be used for years on end.
CLFunaro: Toei makes them to last one year. If they hold out for PR, good. If not, not their problem.
CLFunaro: They got a box full of Necronomica last year.
CLFunaro: "Well, fuck."
Sir Montford III: What do you mean by the last 2 statements?
CLFunaro: She fell apart in transit.
CLFunaro: That's why there's no US footage of her.
Sir Montford III: How do you know all of this stuff?
CLFunaro: * blink *
CLFunaro: Wow, I haven't been asked that for a long time. ;-)
CLFunaro: I used to be tight with the staff.
Sir Montford III: But how are you like..related to one of them? I mean..don't pull a Hariken Yellow lol
CLFunaro: I used to have friends on the crew.
Sir Montford III: Is it Chip Lynn or Judd Lynn? Are they two different people? Same person?
CLFunaro: Chip is Judd's real name.
CLFunaro: Judd's professional.
CLFunaro: And yes, they named their kid Chip.
CLFunaro: Not Charles, not anything that starts with Ch... Just Chip.
CLFunaro: His story editor title is as Chip, writing and directing is as Judd.
CLFunaro: Chip had no involvement in PRWF.
CLFunaro: Chip's too busy as a contract architect these days to read or watch much TV.
CLFunaro: He's very realistic about PR.
CLFunaro: "Wait ten years when we do a convention, then I'll be more enthused."
CLFunaro: Amit only wrote three episodes outright.
CLFunaro: But as story editor, he rewrote large portions of the show.
Sir Montford III: Oh yeah you mentioned something about a commentary he did?
Sir Montford III: Do you have it at all on the computer or in words?
CLFunaro: Amit mentioned the FR commentary once, bitterly.
Sir Montford III: Do you have it?
CLFunaro: Nope.
CLFunaro: Amit doesn't even have a copy.
Sir Montford III: Ohhhh...do you know why he mentioned it "bitterly"
CLFunaro: Because they didn't use it for the DVD release.
Sir Montford III: Oh that would've been awesome
Sir Montford III: I like the commentaries
CLFunaro: It's like the forty minute cut of FR Disney has in the vaults.
CLFunaro: Lot of bad blood.
Sir Montford III: ?????
CLFunaro: It's a work print, not finished.
CLFunaro: No ADR, no Slavin, no FX.
CLFunaro: Chris Glenn was Leo in Triple Force because Slav walked out in ADR.
Sir Montford III: Do you know why Slavin walked out?
CLFunaro: They'd have had to pay Russ to do it.
CLFunaro: Some pay dispute.
Sir Montford III: Ah..as always
CLFunaro: The PRLG cast got told they'd get a full reunion, not a crossover.
CLFunaro: Val was still getting better from chemo, Reggie nearly didn't appear AT ALL...
Sir Montford III: Oh you mean like their own episode?
CLFunaro: Reggie's stuff was shot in about two days, simply because Amy walked right before shooting.
CLFunaro: And, ya know, she is his wife.
Sir Montford III: I know..Reggie and Kendrix didn't appear until part 2
Sir Montford III: Why did she walk out?
CLFunaro: I never got a clear story on that.
CLFunaro: Amy was IN full Trakeena attire when she bailed, on the set.
Sir Montford III: That sucks
Puperazzi: That's gotta suck... trying to wak out in full costume! LOL
Sir Montford III: LOL
CLFunaro: She took it off first. ;-)
Sir Montford III: And it was probably from an argument right?
CLFunaro: One assumes.
Puperazzi: You know what i mean... Having to take it all off in a hurry to storm out.
Sir Montford III: It seems like behin the cameras at PR it was dark
CLFunaro: Naw, not much of the time.
CLFunaro: Every family has its squabbles.
Sir Montford III: from what I hear lol
CLFunaro: And out of a cast of hundreds of actors...
CLFunaro: You expect SOME dissension.
Sir Montford III: Same thing with {atricia right?
CLFunaro: Well, Padee is awkward.
Sir Montford III: Patricia*
CLFunaro: They wouldn't pay her being a regular cast member.
Sir Montford III: She's akward?
CLFunaro: No, the situation,.
Sir Montford III: Oh lol
CLFunaro: They paid her as an extra.
CLFunaro: She, understandably, said fuck that and let.
CLFunaro: left, bah.
Sir Montford III: Some people are so greedy lol..I would kill to be on a tv show
CLFunaro: She did the end of Power of Pink, and --
CLFunaro: It's not greed, it's money issues.
Sir Montford III: I mean getting paid so much money to act?
CLFunaro: She made more money doing another job.
CLFunaro: The PR cast wasn't union until Space.
Puperazzi: So Melody was paid as an extra then?
CLFunaro: They got pennies.
CLFunaro: Even when Space made them SAG, they got bare minimum.
Sir Montford III: What do you mean that they weren't a union?
CLFunaro: It's NOT a good paying job.
Namus12: DavidYost is the example of Greed
CLFunaro: Saban Entertainment wasn't SAG, people.
CLFunaro: They could pay anything they determined, for any number of hours per day.
CLFunaro: DY was not greedy.
CLFunaro: DY was going to have his part reduced to Ernie status.
Sir Montford III: I heard DY was hard to work with
CLFunaro: Semi-recurring.
CLFunaro: He was, by all accounts.
CLFunaro: Padee was not being greedy, though.
CLFunaro: She was going to be given pennies, and last billing in the credits.
CLFunaro: She walked. It was her choice.
CLFunaro: Melody is financially stable, she's successful as a model.
Namus12: jason,Zack and trini had issues as well
Namus12: that's why they left
Namus12: i heard
CLFunaro: And Austin, Walter, and Thuy walked DUE to union issues.
CLFunaro: They did ADR until five in the morning.
CLFunaro: They had no regulations, no anything. But PR was being produced quickly, to capitalize on the boom.
CLFunaro: o they stopped appearing for dub work.
CLFunaro: They figured, hey, they won't fire us!
CLFunaro: Then they stopped showing for photography.
Namus12: why every pr Actor had to fight for money?
CLFunaro: Most didn't.
GreenSamurai12: Once Kendrix's actor got Lukemia i believe, they wanted Cassie for the part to replace Kendrix
CLFunaro: Most PR actors also didn't feel they were big league celebrities who deserved massive paychecks, despite the rumors.
CLFunaro: Yes, as I said.
GreenSamurai12: Then when contract issues didn't go well with her, they got MELODY to play that part
CLFunaro: They shot two eps with Patricia, ya know.
GreenSamurai12: Melody wasn't even the first choice to be Astronema
CLFunaro: Chyler was.
CLFunaro: She was "too old," despite being CKL's younger sister IRL.
CLFunaro: And Melody is ten years older than Chris.
Sir Montford III: Who/s Chyler? Are you serious? Christopher Kaymen Lee? She's older than him?
Puperazzi: Were they originally looking for real-life siblings? Or was the consideration just a coincidence?
CLFunaro: Chyler Leigh is Christopher Khayman Lee's sister.
CLFunaro: They wanted sibs, yes.
CLFunaro: And yeah, Melody is 33.
Sir Montford III: Hey I also heard (I believe by you, Funaro) That there were two C2D Scripts?
CLFunaro: Two endings shot, actually.
Sir Montford III: Same exact story just the final scene was different?
Sir Montford III: Like same EXACT words?
CLFunaro: Well, they SHOT a lot more footage than they used.
CLFunaro: Like the unused part of Fate of Lightspeed.
GreenSamurai12: It was this girl Angelica Bridges that was supposed to play Astronema
CLFunaro: But every PR has stuff cut.
CLFunaro: She was auditioned by Iris, she wasn't a lock.
Sir Montford III: Can you tell me what you know about the finale of Lightspeed?
GreenSamurai12: Iris is who
CLFunaro: Mostly stuff in the Skull Cavern.
Puperazzi: Hampton, the Casting Director
CLFunaro: Iris Hampton, the casting direc-- thank you. ;-)
Sir Montford III: Anything important?
CLFunaro: Not a lot, just more of a Ryan/Carter focus.
GreenSamurai12: Thanks Chris
Sir Montford III: Oh lol
CLFunaro: The "bad" ending of Countdown is awesome.
CLFunaro: And only that bitch Dairenn Lombard saw it.
CLFunaro: Andros stays on KO-35.
CLFunaro: With Zhane and Karone.
CLFunaro: He has everything he wanted, from the first ep.
CLFunaro: And he's miserable.
Sir Montford III: Was that the ending that allowed the PRIS cast to return for PRLG?
CLFunaro: Well, the notion that it was open ended.
GreenSamurai12: When was the scene with the Phantom unmasked in C2D like the end of it or no
CLFunaro: They never wrote that scene.
GreenSamurai12: oh
CLFunaro: Chip was adamant, Phanty has no other identity.
CLFunaro: He is a ghost robot.
CLFunaro: That's it, end of story.
symbolicagony: Yeah I've heard CKL is a bit on the eccentric side to say the least
CLFunaro: Ignoring his girlfriend to noodle on a Playstation.
CLFunaro: And he's a BIG GIANT FATTY now.
symbolicagony: I am still amazed JDF became an even worse actor by Forever red
CLFunaro: He couldn't even "aw man" right anymore.
CLFunaro: HE COULDN'T DO HIS SIGNATURE LINE RIGHT.
CLFunaro: Amit should have done ADR for JDF in FR.
CLFunaro: He did it for Scorp, it was awesome then.
CLFunaro: Amit does a GREAT Tommy.
symbolicagony: does anyone actually have a copy of scorpion rain?
symbolicagony: I want to see for myself that Amit is a better Tommy than JDF
symbolicagony: But yeah, JDF's one line was fucked up
CLFunaro: I have a copy.
CLFunaro: Me, Derik, and...
CLFunaro: That's it.
symbolicagony: Not to mention when he was delivering the speech to the other rangers
CLFunaro: JDF's "Sea of Tran-QUIL-Lit-Tee" was the best delivery they had.
CLFunaro: They did it like twenty times.
CLFunaro: Ya know, we want Tommy to do three things.
CLFunaro: Spinning jump-kick, "seep-kaya", and aw man.
CLFunaro: He can't even aw man right anymore. Fuck him.
CLFunaro: And he has Fido Dido hair.
PrometheusUFO: i heard ASJ had a scene or two in FR as a business man or something.. but it was cut..
CLFunaro: Jason was most decidedly not a business man by then.
CLFunaro: That's not one of the cut scenes.
symbolicagony: lol
symbolicagony: baybe a buisness man as in hired thug for the mafia
CLFunaro: One of the cut scenes IS Daggy's ref, which is sad...
CLFunaro: Right, that's what Amit WANTED him to be.
CLFunaro: Professional punk.
CLFunaro: * explains to morons that Turtle Cove is in Colorado *
Nxt2LstSong: hmm?
CLFunaro: It's in the bible.
CLFunaro: And Silver Hills is Washington state.
Puperazzi: Oh that prison ship...
Puperazzi: Pshaw... old news...
Nxt2LstSong: educate me on this "bible," Chris
CLFunaro: The series bible is the tome I live by.
CLFunaro: It teaches me things like "never escalate a battle unless forced to do so."
CLFunaro: And "always keep your true identity a secret."
CLFunaro: NO ONE MAY KNOW who I really am.
Puperazzi: They never did get the concept of a secret identity, did they?
CLFunaro: Not particularly well.
CLFunaro: I like --
CLFunaro: "Keep your identities a secret. Oh, and the bad guys all know your faces, names, where you live, and families."
Puperazzi: exactly!
CLFunaro: I think I see the logic, though.
CLFunaro: Celebrity would be a tempting thing for the team.
CLFunaro: Look at Doomsday.
CLFunaro: Zack would totally blow his cover to get with Angela.
Puperazzi: That is true I suppose
CLFunaro: And once your ID is compromised, you never get a NORMAL LIFE.
CLFunaro: I think, in large part, Zordon kept their identities a secret so they could quit and fade into obscurity.
CLFunaro: Except Tommy, who made his fortune cashing in on it.
Puperazzi: Oh is that the backstory?;-)
CLFunaro: Bulkmeier's is in Tommy's backyard.
CLFunaro: Nobody got that.
CLFunaro: He has a PAY RESTAURANT by his pool.
CLFunaro: He makes guests pay for food and drink. ;-)
Puperazzi: "Aw man!"
CLFunaro: That's so Tommy.
Puperazzi: See... These are the jokes PRNS could use.
CLFunaro: I don't want old continuity jokes, though.
CLFunaro: I keep offering this one to Doug for ADR.
CLFunaro: "Let's toast this milquetoast!"
CLFunaro: "With you, bro!"
CLFunaro: For the Thunders.
SamuraiPrinceXR: ok now I got trade secret
SamuraiPrinceXR: but I bet you wont believe me
Superpower1979: what is it?
SamuraiPrinceXR: See I use to have connections in MMPR productions
Superpower1979: really?
SamuraiPrinceXR: I learned quite a bit
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah, now hears the most shocking thing I learned
SamuraiPrinceXR: "Gaoranger was a joint project between Saban and Toei"
Superpower1979: what do you mean?
SamuraiPrinceXR: "Gaoranger was designed to be easily tranlated into power rangers"
SamuraiPrinceXR: No I`m saying that hasn`t anyone else notice how simple Gaoranger is?
MEGAGreenSamurai: but then disney got there nasty hands on it
Superpower1979: that's not too unsuprising
Cyrax9: Fasciniating, so GaoRanger was designed to become PR no matter what?
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah
SamuraiPrinceXR: this is also why PRWF followed Gaoranger almost to the letter
Cyrax9: A sort fo "Direct Translation" right? Minor changes?
Superpower1979: so why'd they do that anyway?
SamuraiPrinceXR: exactly, except for taylor being a girl
SamuraiPrinceXR: another thing I learned a few years back
SamuraiPrinceXR: was that PRTF was going to have a film
Cyrax9: I heard about that
Cyrax9: It was caned after 9/11
Cyrax9: Right Samurai?
SamuraiPrinceXR: but due to the fact that SAG threatened to strike and 911 it was canned
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah half right
SamuraiPrinceXR: Rememebr that striking thing in 2001?
Cyrax9: That's right! That was also why PRTF ran all year, right?
SamuraiPrinceXR: Yeah
Cyrax9: They wanteds to make sure the eps all got done adn they weren't stuckw itha Striek, right?
Cyrax9: OK I thought I remerbed that.
SamuraiPrinceXR: yup
Cyrax9: So was a script written or anything?
SamuraiPrinceXR: yes it was
SamuraiPrinceXR: well barely
Cyrax9: Could they have filmed the movie at a later date, like this year if they wanted?
SamuraiPrinceXR: Fox said if PRTF got good ratings, better then PRLF theyed go ahead with a film
Cyrax9: But it didn't?
SamuraiPrinceXR: No it did
SamuraiPrinceXR: like I said the SAG threat of a strike help kill it
Cyrax9: Then what kileld the moive if ti wasn't SAG or 9/11 in the end?
Cyrax9: Oh.
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah
SamuraiPrinceXR: and by then the actors were let go
SamuraiPrinceXR: See this is how FR went from what I know
SamuraiPrinceXR: The time force and wild force team up was going to be a three parter
SamuraiPrinceXR: and they wanted FR to be a big budget DVD OAV type movie
SamuraiPrinceXR: But due to the fact that Disney had placed new budgets on the MMPR productions and they had only enough money for so many episodes
SamuraiPrinceXR: the three part team up was cut up into a two part team up and forver red
SamuraiPrinceXR: FR had the blunt of the money in it
SamuraiPrinceXR: Turbo sucked in part because of David Yost
Cyrax9: THe walkoff, right?
SamuraiPrinceXR: Billy was the one who made the powers, billy was going to save tommy from jason at the last minute as the blue MMPR ranger, billy was a big part of that movie
Cyrax9: The "Yosties" wanted to see him again on the big screen, right?
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah but he walked off
SamuraiPrinceXR: and heck I could see it a mile away
Cyrax9: Right the whole Gold ranegr thing?
Cyrax9: *Ranger
SamuraiPrinceXR: ok this is what I see
Cyrax9: Where they really wanted you to thinkit was Billy and they mae it Jason.
SamuraiPrinceXR: You remember Billy`s bad attitude in PRZ?
Cyrax9: Yes.
SamuraiPrinceXR: That was only half fake
Cyrax9: The way he seemd to be a little anyed with his role change.
Cyrax9: *change
SamuraiPrinceXR: David Yosy really was annoyed
SamuraiPrinceXR: yost
Cyrax9: He was pissed, about the Ranger tunered Tech, right?
SamuraiPrinceXR: Yeah
SamuraiPrinceXR: The fustraighted billy role, was true to life
Cyrax9: That was when they planned for him to get the Gold Ranger stuf and he wlked out of one to mnay incidents, correct?
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah exactly
Cyrax9: David Yost was't happy with the No-Ranger role, just like Billy.
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah
Cyrax9: He would have been the Gol Ranger beofre the walk-off.
SamuraiPrinceXR: He also didn`t like Jason Frank
Shihen Aitsu: Why was that?
Cyrax9: Which lead to friction on the set no doubt.
Cyrax9: My guess is that Frank
Cyrax9: "stole the show" so to speak.
SamuraiPrinceXR: From what I heard Frank had quite a few people who ddin`t like him
SamuraiPrinceXR: Haim hated him
SamuraiPrinceXR: this is why he left
Cyrax9: I knwo they wanted him gone in S3 of MPR.
Cyrax9: But I thought he wanted to leave as well.
SamuraiPrinceXR: Frank and Saban would fight through out S3 to PRT
SamuraiPrinceXR: Tommy became the God of the show, and other actors didn`t like it
SamuraiPrinceXR: namely Yost
Cyrax9: See I could actually see some people nt liking Frank because he had a bunch fo huge roles.
Cyrax9: Because Yostw as there before he was.
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah exactly
SamuraiPrinceXR: and as far as Foster goes
Cyrax9: Yost wanted the Zeo Powers, to eb Billys not Tommy's right?
Cyrax9: Wasn't Foster brought in last-minute.
SamuraiPrinceXR: I liked him in the movie because he embodied what a lot of us wanted, to be a kid and a power ranger
Cyrax9: A sort of "Quick-Fix" to the Yost Problem?
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah he was
Cyrax9: Me too it was in PRT I had a problem with him.
Cyrax9: *with
Cyrax9: I belvie he was supposed to be replaced but then Steve walked, right?
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah you got it
Cyrax9: Austin came back to Zeo because he was unemployed if I remerb correctly.
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah again correct
SamuraiPrinceXR: Amy Jo came back because of a contract
Cyrax9: Right when she stated she'd NEVER do another PR Show.
Cyrax9: And didn't Austin come back due to contractual isues as well?
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah but also he liked being a ranger
Cyrax9: True.
SamuraiPrinceXR: see whats funny
SamuraiPrinceXR: ranger fans post PRT loved the job
SamuraiPrinceXR: I mean loved it
Cyrax9: CForect me if I'm wrong Samuraui but wasn't MMPR S2 to eb DaiRanger and a new cast beofre the wole cnesorship/violance thing started?
SamuraiPrinceXR: no it was just going to be a new suit change
Cyrax9: Like Zeo, right?
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah
Cyrax9: BUt that turned into a fiasco with Turbo
Cyrax9: 'Wasn't there orignallya different cast change for PRiS
Cyrax9: the revelation of the Phantom Ranger keeping Adam adn tanya I belive?
SamuraiPrinceXR: from what I know Adam was going to be red
Cyrax9: SOunds about right, Tanay would have been yellow?
Cyrax9: *Tanya
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah
Cyrax9: The others were still being changed I know JDF was out, and so was Kat
Cyrax9: then Steven Walked
Cyrax9: That, if I rmerb correctly lead to Justin in PRT who was a temp-thing anyway.
Cyrax9: Now what gets me is that "other" Lost galaxy we never saw as well as rumours that PRiS had an alternate ending and opening.
Cyrax9: I heard hat fi Doug had remained they'd have kept Zordon, correct?
SamuraiPrinceXR: yeah
Cyrax9: Like a non-C2D ending before PRLG.
Superpower1979: the death of Zordon was inevetable
Cyrax9: Then DOug was laid off, adn Judd took over
Cyrax9: I agree it becomae old hat.
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