The Power Rangers are ready to rise again. After multiple attempts to bring back the popular franchise over the past few years, Hasbro just struck a deal with Disney+ to make a new live-action version of the show from the showrunners of its very successful Percy Jackson series, Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz.
The Wrap broke the news of the deal, which comes almost a year after a previous attempt to bring back the series failed at Netflix. And that reboot, of course, was after Lionsgate actually made a decent reboot for the big screen, but that too fizzled.
What changed here, or how this version will be different from others, is unclear. The trade says that the series “will reinvent the franchise for a whole new generation of fans while delighting those who already know and love the world of Power Rangers.” It also can’t hurt that Steinberg and Shotz have two seasons and counting of another hit fantasy action show on the streamer. They probably have earned lots of trust as a result.
The Power Rangers have been popular for decades and across multiple mediums. However, after the original hit 1990s show, live-action has always been the gold standard. That’s why there have been multiple different TV iterations and movies throughout the years before Hasbro bought the franchise in 2018. Since then, multiple movies and TV show iterations have been floated, but nothing has quite solidified yet. So there’s every chance this version fails too. But when you read that headline and saw “Disney+” didn’t that just somehow inspire a bit of extra confidence? The streamer can be brutal to some of its shows (see The Acolyte and Willow) but it also feels like the place to be for genre programming aimed at a certain age. And Power Rangers is right in that wheelhouse.
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