This is Hasbro now, so I'd expect something closer to the Transformers movies at worst.
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'Power Rangers' Getting Film and TV Treatment from Jonathan Entwistle (I Am Not Okay with This)
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At least it won't be that kickstarter movie JDF is doing with Bat in the Sun and a few other PR alumni.
That shit is cringey edgelord grimdark.
Newest (and final) issue of MMPR ended on a pretty good note, the two new power ranger comics that come out in the future are rebranding but following the same story; one is following the MMPR team (alongside the *new* green ranger), and the other one is following the omega rangers.
This has been the rumor for months now, so not too surprising. I came to terms with this when this was first leaked. It's a shame, but hopefully it pays off for them. No more sentai adaptations is gonna be ass.
New news. His universe will be a reboot that will include animation. This is gonna be fun.
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Former Netflix showrunner admits 'there's a real frustration' over cancellations and reflects on behind-the-scenes shifts at the streamer
"I Am Not Okay With This" cocreator Jonathan Entwistle reflects on the shifting reality for TV show writers and showrunners at Netflix.
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Oh boy 1000 years of MMPR incoming.New news. His universe will be a reboot that will include animation. This is gonna be fun.
Former Netflix showrunner admits 'there's a real frustration' over cancellations and reflects on behind-the-scenes shifts at the streamer
"I Am Not Okay With This" cocreator Jonathan Entwistle reflects on the shifting reality for TV show writers and showrunners at Netflix.
The 2017 film was surprisingly really enjoyable. Why they haven't made plans to continue from there I have no idea.
2017 was really likeable but it didnt bring in the amount of cash they needed to feel comfortable continuing
The marketing didn't really do the movie any favors
And I heard the budget became a bit inflated during filming also, the director was said to be very exploratory
I think they could have done even better sequels for less money than the first, but that's not an exciting prospect for the suits in charge I guess
As mentioned before, as much as it was very solid, it was pretty much a disaster at recouping its budget.
105 million budget, 145 million box office, with theaters taking 45% of that money. It was a bomb.
Even then, sometimes the merchandise can offset losses, but that didn't happen either. Toys and action figures REALLY struggled and were warming shelves for months and months and months. Didn't help that they were extremely ugly figures.
The loss of investment in the toys was even considered a driving reason for Bandai losing the toy license to Hasbro less than a year later.
Ultimately, it all comes down to money. The film didn't recoup its investment at the box office, it didn't recoup its investment with toys and merchandise, and Power Rangers as a brand was doing better just moving forward with Beast Morphers, the Boom comics, and milking MMPR nostalgia, for better or worse.
New news. His universe will be a reboot that will include animation. This is gonna be fun.
Former Netflix showrunner admits 'there's a real frustration' over cancellations and reflects on behind-the-scenes shifts at the streamer
"I Am Not Okay With This" cocreator Jonathan Entwistle reflects on the shifting reality for TV show writers and showrunners at Netflix.
I wonder how much of a reboot it will be.
Power Rangers is already a multiverse, so I wonder if this will fit into the existing multiverse or be completely disconnected.
Though I'm sure they'll just retcon it to being part of it later on, just like they did with the last movie.
The fact they've confirmed animation is definitely a biggie - I remember that being a sticking point for Toei at some point in the past.
The fact that Hasbro kinda-sorta finally figured out how to do live-action Transformers with Bumblebee - sort of a YA-bent to the story, with lots of nostalgia pandering for old fans - makes me think Power Rangers might be doable. Like, I can imagine it straight up being set in the 90s.
The fact that Hasbro kinda-sorta finally figured out how to do live-action Transformers with Bumblebee - sort of a YA-bent to the story, with lots of nostalgia pandering for old fans - makes me think Power Rangers might be doable. Like, I can imagine it straight up being set in the 90s.
If it isn't a continuation of the last film, I don't want it based on MMPR generation. Do something new or at least reboot a different era.
Dumb. The last movie was good and the decision to use the breakfast club as inspiration was a great one.
Nobody wants to see he old garbage universe they've been pedaling for years. If Power Rangers is going to succeed, it needs to be its own thing.
This is doomed to failure because it will contain animated in-universe content as well and you need to be Star Wars to make that work (or make the events totally inconsequential).
This is false and you should feel bad
Don't care about The Breakfast Club schtick, the zords and action were abysmal
Love the comics. Don't adapt the comics. Grow the fuck out of MM. Thanks.
Not when RPM exists.
Well I meant to reboot the whole universe with the movies like they did with the first movie, not make a tie in with any of the stories from the TV series.
I don't know why people are hung up on a sequel to the 2017 movie. We've known this is a reboot. We've known no sequel is happening. The big news here is the confirmation of animation, as well as further confirmation of the rumor that Sentai won't be adapted anymore, given that they said they're building this universe from scratch.
As mentioned before, as much as it was very solid, it was pretty much a disaster at recouping its budget.
105 million budget, 145 million box office, with theaters taking 45% of that money. It was a bomb.
Even then, sometimes the merchandise can offset losses, but that didn't happen either. Toys and action figures REALLY struggled and were warming shelves for months and months and months. Didn't help that they were extremely ugly figures.
The loss of investment in the toys was even considered a driving reason for Bandai losing the toy license to Hasbro less than a year later.
Ultimately, it all comes down to money. The film didn't recoup its investment at the box office, it didn't recoup its investment with toys and merchandise, and Power Rangers as a brand was doing better just moving forward with Beast Morphers, the Boom comics, and milking MMPR nostalgia, for better or worse.
The movie was great but I hated the designs of the suits, zords, MegaZord and Goldar, it was all so creatively bankrupt you could see the studio interference in the DNA of those things.
There are a lot of variables in play now with the animation that may be allowing it to happen. Because, yes, before they sold the franchise, Disney wanted to go that route and Toei didn't let them.
-For one, indications are that Toei fucking hated Disney, so if they have a better working relationship with Hasbro, they may be more amenable.
-Disney I think also wanted to abandon live action and just do a cartoon. So animation in addition to potentially still adapting Sentai could also be more amenable.
-The Sentai side is in a different position nowadays. Hasbro gaining the toy rights from Bandai of America means that Bandai has infinitely less reason to care that new Sentai are adapted. Toei may not really care here, just as long as they continue to get their cut.
-The current rights contract may also be more open to this stuff. I've seen claims that the prior contract was stricter with having to adapt every Sentai, and that elements of that were renegotiated when Saban bought the franchise back from Disney.
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I went into that movie expecting it to be shit, but mildly curious. I came out of it really enjoying it! The cast was genuinely great, really wish they'd have continued it.
I don't get the Toei divorce rumors. Almost everyone here seems to think the last movie bombed at least partially because of the suit and zord designs/toy sales. If they divorce themselves from Toei, they should lose the rights to all of the suit designs and would have to start from scratch, which is basically what they did for those movie designs. I just don't see it. I can see Toei letting them go in a different direction but without the link to the existing series, I don't see what the point is of the license (especially the toy license, which is like 99% nostalgia).
Why go through of all the design trouble of toys, monsters, costumes, etc? No one sane will chunk that and go from scratch
The comics are full of original designs. Not saying they're any good though. Solar Rangers are neat I guess.
The American production(s) will need people who know their shit on mecha design, martial arts, superhero and monster design to do worthwhile PR.
The American production(s) will need people who know their shit on mecha design, martial arts, superhero and monster design to do worthwhile PR.
"They" are different now though. Hasbro wasn't involved with the franchise at all at the time of the last movie. They will have to redesign everything for the movies anyway (and even tv shows considering the plans to make them directly tied to the movies), there's no way they'd go with the low budget existing suits and designs in theatrical features.
Now, if they stay with Toei they can go with close modernized redesigns, but if they weren't going to do that they might as well go without Toei. Mecha design also shouldn't be an issue for Hasbro, so the big point would be suit design, and that's considerably easier (even if Saban still messed up last time).
That's fine, they can and probably should redesign their own stuff for a movie franchise, what I'm saying is that most of the value of the franchise is tied into the likenesses of the older suits and zords. If they somehow cut out Toei but keep the Power Rangers license, that all goes poof. That would be really really stupid (IMHO). Like it would end their whole Lightning collection line before they even got halfway into milking it.
They would if they want to better fit the market, if they feel the Sentai series does not have toys and themes that fit as well for a western audience (aka ToQger).
Bah. Ranger Slayer, Solar Rangers, and Omega Rangers are all good designs.
I was thinking more of the Mechazord and Gravezord. They're hodgepodge shapes stuck together rather than what Zords should be. I'm a huge fan of the animatronic Zords from early PR/Sentai, if that isn't clear enough. :P
World building PR is too much for singular comics creators, so the sooner these TV/movie/animation guys get working the better.