Lionsgate is hard at work making a big screen adaptation of “Power Rangers,” but producer Adi Shankar and director Joseph Kahn have already finished a new vision of the popular children’s TV show that launched in the 1990s.

“Power/Rangers,” Shankar’s fourth “Bootleg Universe” project, stars James Van Der Beek (“Dawson’s Creek”) and Katee Sackhoff (“Battlestar Galactica”) as former rangers at odds in a bleak future controlled by the machines.

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“This is not a pitch,” Shankar said of the project that follows previous online shorts following popular comic book characters The Punisher, Venom and Judge Dredd.

Instead, it’s a very bloody interpretation of what happens to color-coded rangers Tommy, Jason, Kimberly, Billy, Zack and Trini after being “child soldiers” in an intergalactic war Shankar believes “they really had nothing to do with.”

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“How’s that not like child soldiers?” Shankar says in a video introducing the short. “They’re going to have PTSD.”

Watch the 14-minute version of “Power Rangers” you probably never expected to see, and then watch Shankar drop more than a few expletives while explaining the passion project: