It's going to take a lot of make-up to turn Elizabeth Banks into Rita Repulsa, the main antagonist of Dean Israelite's Power Rangers film. Those types of character transformations aren't completely foreign to Banks, who famously morphed into the eccentric Effie Trinket for The Hunger Games movies, but this new role will find her wearing brown, billowing robes, strange aluminum foil horns, and lots of spikes for some reason. Okay, maybe it's not that different after all.

As reported by THR, Banks is set to antagonize the title heroes of Power Rangers, a live-action feature resurgence of the long-running TV series. Rita Repulsa is an alien witch who arrives on Earth with designs on conquering the planet, something the super-suited heroes must prevent by uniting their powers. Starring Naomi Scott as the Pink Ranger, Dacre Montgomery as the Red Ranger, Ludi Lin as the Black Ranger, RJ Cyler as the Blue Ranger, and Becky Gomez as the Yellow Ranger, the Power Rangers team will take on Banks' Big Bad on March 24, 2017.

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Take a look at Banks' confirmation soon after the news broke:

Take a look at the full cast below:

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For more on Power Rangers, take a look at some of our recent coverage:

• ‘The Divergent Series: Ascendant’ to Open in Summer 2017; ‘Power Rangers’ Delayed
• ‘Power Rangers’ Finds Its Final Ranger to Assemble the Full Team [Updated]
• ‘Power Rangers’ Brings Ninjas to Netflix for Season 24
• ‘Power Rangers’ Title, Budget, and Character Names Revealed [Updated]
• ‘Power Rangers’ Adds ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’ Actor as Blue Ranger
• ‘Power Rangers’ Movie Casts the New Black Ranger

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