Lionsgate's "Power Rangers" reboot will be "mature but playful" according to director Dean Israelite.

The "Acholiland" helmer sat down with IGN to update on the upcoming reboot, revealing details about the movie's progress as he claimed that it is in "soft pre-production."

"I read the script and was really surprised by it and thought there was a really cool, contemporary, mature but still playful, buoyant and fun take on the material, and was updated in a really interesting way," Israelite explained.

"It had this wonderful character that's essential to going on a fantastic adventure," the "Project Almanac" director shared. "I was instantly drawn to it. "

"I remember it as a kid," he said. "I grew up with it in South Africa. When I opened the script I had no idea how it was going to be updated, and I was really impressed by it."

He also confessed that it was the script from Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller (X-Men: First Class) that drew him to the project. Now that he has secured the director's chair, Israelite has a clear vision of the upcoming reboot's tone and feel.

"It needs to be completely playful, and it needs to be really fun and funny," Israelite said. "But like 'Project Almanac,' I hope it's going to feel very grounded at the same time, and very contemporary and have a real edge to it, and a real gut to it.

"So I think it's going to be a fun, joyful [movie] but on that feels completely grounded in a real world, with real characters going through real things," he added.

The film will be a retelling of the "Power Rangers," a group of ordinary teenagers who are given supernatural powers to defend Earth from alien forces.

Originally a TV series that aired on Fox Kids in 1993, the franchise spawned a feature film titled "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie" in 1995. A sequel titled "Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie" followed in 1997.

"Power Rangers" is set to release in theaters on Jan. 13, 2017.