In honor of Valentine’s, Lionsgate decided to use the holiday as an interesting opportunity for some promotion. They let the villain from the movie, Rita Repulsa, take over the officialPower Rangers movietwitter account. While there were some amusing tweets, the best thing that came from the takeover was a brand new image ofElizabeth Banksas Rita Repulsa fromPower Rangers.
The keys to the Power RangersTwitteraccount were turned over to Rita Repulsa, or at least, whoever was tweeting as Rita Repulsa, early in the day on Valentine’s Day and the takeover lasted most of the day. The first thing that was shared was a brand new image ofElizabeth Banksas Rita and even though it isn’t a still from the actual movie, it offers a really good look at the villain’s costume and signature weapon. Here is how the picture was captioned.
“It’s Valentine’s Day, love is in the air… try not to breathe. #RepulsaTakesOver”
As for the rest of the tweets,Rita Repulsawas pretty salty and sour about Valentine’s Day in general and decided to discourage anyone from enjoying themselves and shared her disgust with the general feeling of love in the air. The most amusing parts of the day came when she interacted with other Twitter accounts. In a couple of self-referential, pretty fun tweets, Rita interacted withThe Hunger Gamesaccount, praising Snow and Effie, who was also played byElizabeth Banks.
“@TheHungerGames Dearest Effie, your style is absolutely wicked… #RepulsaTakesOver”
The account also shared a fewPower RangersValentine’s Day cards, one of which featured Rita Repulsa saying, “I love you as much as I love gold.” That is pretty clearly a not-so-subtle reference to Goldar, who was seen squaring off with theMegazordin the last trailer that was released for the movie. There were no references made toZordon, who is being voiced byBryan CranstoninPower Rangers, or the robot Alpha 5, who is being voiced byBill Hader. She did, however, make some time to get in on poking fun atCee Lo Greenfor his Grammy’s outfit by asking if he and Gnarles Barkley would join her.
“@CeeLoGreen @GnarlyDOfficial Will you join my army? #RepulsaTakesOver”
Though the villain in this new movie is being played by a very established actress, thePower Rangersin themselves are being played by promising up-and-comers.Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’sRJ Cyleris playing the Blue Ranger withDarce Montgomeryas the Red Ranger,Naomi Scottas the Pink Ranger,Ludi Linas the Black Ranger andBecky Gas the Yellow Ranger.Power Rangersis being directed byDean Israeliteand the movie is set for release onMarch 24, 2017. Be sure to check out all of Rita Repulsa’s Valentine’s Day tweets for yourself below.
