By JACOB DEMING
STAFF WRITER
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Eric Francisco is an avid admirer of all forms of media and desires to break into the entertainment media industry by creating the big-budget film version of “Power Rangers.”
He plans to bring the “tokusatsu,” or special filming, genre to American audiences. He hopes to use the method when he produces a movie version of the popular 1990s children’s television series.
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Francisco, a fan of the Power Rangers as a kid, said the time is ripe for a revival of the show, which featured a group of children who developed superpowers they once dress in their colorful clothing and don their sleek biker helmets.
A current Rutgers University student and aspiring filmmaker, Francisco said that he first became hooked on the entertainment industry when, at a very young age, he saw a fight scene in the children’s television show “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.”
Francisco’s drive to entertain others came to a fruition when, during the spring 2011 semester, he entered a short film into the Rutgers University edition of Campus MovieFest; the world’s largest student film festival in which participants are given moviemaking equipment and a week to produce a short film.
Despite Francisco’s film, “Issue Number 42,” not placing in the festival, the short film has gained positive recognition from friends and family. Francisco himself, however, is highly critical of his production and states that his supporters are “just being nice.
This setback has not ended Francisco’s love for the media industry, however, as he continues to write for his own general media blog “The Fanboy Federation” and has hosted a live interview with the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers’” original blue ranger, David Yost, on the podcast “No Pink Spandex.” |
