EDITORIAL: Can The POWER RANGERS Reboot Actually Work?

I'm cool with anything that uses The Breakfast Club as a point of inspiration for a Power Rangers adaption.

@HeisenbergSaysRelax

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ERMAGEHD NOOO!!!! THE RED RANGER HAS TO BE WHITE! ITS SUCH AN INTEGRAL PART OF HIS CHARACTER. MAKING HIM BLACK IS LIKE MAKING LUKE CAGE WHITE! DID HACK SNYDER MAKE THIS?

J/k of course. This was incredible - a really fun read. You've pretty much convinced me that (providing they do indeed carefully follow this excellent plan), there is still hope for a good Power Rangers movie yet.

+100000 for even making a Power Rangers editorial.

+10000000000 for the Breakfast Club analogies.

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I've never liked the Power Rangers too much, they've always been too childish and cheesy for me. However, if they want to make a lighthearted film version that is actually taken seriously, I could probably get into it.

Talk about a fan film destroying expectations on a coming re-boot. This was a good article that sums up what the new movie should be ...also has a lot in common with the fan spec script I have been writing over the last few days. (in mine the kids come from all around the world and range from 14 to 19)

When it comes to the Rangers in thee up coming re-boot ...I think we should prepare for some race swapping or at least color swapping between Jason and Zack and Kimberly and Trini.

@DaveAriKhanlark Also, X-men? Sure, there are rare moments of "being accepted"(by the team, not the world) and a lot of "being true to oneself", but that's a very vague parallel.

Like I said, the whole highschool fiction colliding with insane scifi, supernatural concepts feels like a hard bargain even for guys like Marc Webb and Josh Trank. Why I'd rather have Starship Trooper or SWAT style Rangers as done by Del Toro, Blompkamp, or Jose Padilha.

I don't think the Power Rangers movie needs to be dark either, but the tone of this reboot shouldn't be anything in the ballpark of "cheesy". The thing about cheesiness, especially in regards to the Power Rangers, is that it's largely accidental. Rarely, unless they're making a comedy, does anybody go into a project with the intention of making it cheesy.

That being said, I actually was around for the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, and I remember it quite fondly. The feature film was outstanding, and quite surprisingly it holds up today, even if it rides on nostalgia a little. I think the reboot, in order to be successful, should adapt the original series as closely as possible in every way except the tone -- keep the tone fast and exciting, like the rebooted Star Trek.

Power Rangers are lame as [frick].

I hope this is the last story about this crap. Just do a battle of the planets live action . Not Gatchman the americanized Sandy Frank version plz!!!!

I must be one of the very few who never has projected stereotyping on the colors of the rangers. I mean until you pointed it out I never took much notice about the black power ranger actually being black. And sorry but I don't understand your meaning behind the yellow ranger being Asian. (yes I googled it after you stated it and well I still don't see why you would project racism into your otherwise ok article about power rangers) I do recall some groups being in a big hubbub when the white power ranger was introduced,yet the black power ranger had been around long before he came into play. Basically there was no grounds for the controversy but some people will cry about anything.
With all that seriousness outta the way. I would like to ask Where is the gosh darn Voltron movie at? Forget these rangers. Or yeah like the other fella said. Bring on Battle of the Planets. But if it's good I will still see the power rangers as well.

omg this is horribly written. grammar and sentence structure errors galore. its like a child wrote this. it might as well be titled, "what i want the power rangers movie to be like and some spiderman stuff and other things that are totally irrelevant."This article is all over the freaking place.
i could write a paragraph better than this article on the same subject or what i think the subject of this article is.

my title:
Power Rangers Reboot has blockbuster potential and why

one paragraph article:
The Power Rangers can resonate with so many people that make up a majority of todays ticket sales. The american series debuted sometime in the early 90's and is still alive and kicking today creating a wide-spread fan base of young kids to adults in their 30's. you cant say that about too many brands outside of comic book movies. Some guy on here wrote parallels to the latest spiderman movies and somehow stuck the breakfast club in there in the same breath. I think the better parallel here is the Transformers series. They both peaked around the same time in the 90's and still pump out tv content to date. They make tons of money off of toys and merchandise and can still appeal to the older audience by throwing some good looking actors in there. It's all action, it's all ridiculous, and it's all silly. But that's what could make this movie fun.
Now im not gonna sit here and tell Lionsgate and those guys what to do from my keyboard like some of these wanna-be filmmakers here but i do want to say that this can be bigger than most people realize. People had doubts about how big the transformers movie was going to be but despite their bad reviews on sites like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB they manage to be some of the top grossing films of all time. I feel it can be the same thing here. The Power Rangers franchise has that level of recognizability and with well known people working on the film, mixing the special effects of todays biggest movies, the sky's the limit. 2016 is a big year for movies and there's some strong competition with the likes of Doctor Strange and the long awaited sequel to Independence Day. It's fair to say some will decide to spend their money on those movies instead but none of those movies have the nostalgialistic(not a word i know made it a goal to finish this in 10 min too close to that mark to check the thesaurus for replacement lol) ability to hit the audience like the Rangers can.
Good luck Rangers -Zordon

its more than a paragraph but i realized i had extra time about mid way through to write more.

That's it?? a few apostrophes? lmao thats all you have on it. talk about nitpicking
you cant write an error free article that actually makes sense for your life. and the best complaint you can come up with are my apostrophes. there should be errors in there as i wrote it in 10 minutes. but even then at least it hits the subject consistently and makes more sense than the garbage you write all the time.not a troll just being brutally honest.

@ahhmynuts

I feel like Power Rangers always worked best when they strayed away from the teenagers-with-attitude concept. Some of what you said in your article has already been done by the best PR seasons, namely, In Space, Lost Galaxy, Time Force, SPD, RPM, and at the moment, Dino Charge. These seasons have showed that Power Rangers CAN be mature enough without jeopardizing its core concepts. I really think that we're not addressing the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Roberto Orci has already left the project in favor of Star Trek 3.

I like Ada Shankar's idea much better. Make it about the fact that they were kids conscripted into a war they didn't understand anything about by basically the Wizard of OZ (a big floating talking head).

The execution, especially the fight choreography left MUCH to be desired, but the concept of kid soldiers was a GREAT addition to the mythos and just added so much more gravity to the entire property.

The ending was fairly cheesy, but you cannot deny how dope the opening is.

Not to mention the dystopian future setting and the sheer chaos of the oepning makes it look like they [the rangers] really are a part of a much larger conflict - one with REAL consequences.

I think they should focus more on the ranger aspect (thinking 1-3 yrs post high school graduation) and leave the teen angst for pretty much every other young adult novel movie out there. It'd be a nice change from the normal tween shit that's been getting pushed out lately.

I mean really, with Hunger Games, The Giver, The Maze, Divergent, plus the ready-made tween-movies like Jupiter Ascending, I'm getting tired of watching post-apocolyptic teenagers navigate their place in the world.

I'd MUCH rather see:
- The Rangers as an intergalactic policing agency a la Green Lantern Corp;
- "Power" as a rank - like the most elite members of the Ranger Corp;
- 5 individuals (our heroes) who are done "trying to navigate" the bumpy path
- They don't believe in the dream and won't buy the magic beans any more and couldn't care less if the world blows itself to hell (maybe this is where we see Tommy get left behind on a mission gone horribly wrong - resulting in the last "Power" rangers walking away from the Corp - make this a rarity like walking away from the Jedi Order to emphasize how big a deal it is)
- Someone begins killing off Corp members - of course, all evidence pointing to Tommy - forcing the last remaining "Power" rangers to reluctantly come out of hiding.

I'd rather see that than more stupid high school locker humor. I'm reserving that portion of my patience for the inevitable Spidey reboot.

If they reboot it completely, keeping the kids in high school, I'll most likely pass.

My six movie outline for a Power Rangers reboot movie saga.

http://www.reddit.com/r/powerrangers/comments/250c2f/how_the_power_rangers_reboot_movie_should_be/

@Optimist18

I will say that it was a bit "too" dark, as you say, in some parts. I've never been too high on Katee Sackoff - I think she's pretty manly lookin, but I digress...The Black Ranger scene was so epically groan inducing I almost stopped watching, BUT James Vanderbeek was a pleasant surprise as a bad-ass.


However, I thoroughly disagree on the opening.

Whats so hard to wrap your head around them using machine guns? They are soldiers fighting a war, correct? They did use guns (ok, they were more like little kid "pyeew-pyeew" guns but they were guns nonetheless. Just because Ranger's would start Vogue'ing before and after shooting someone and explosions happened behind the intended target doesn't mask the fact they were bussin' caps.

Like I said in my earlier post,the big war scene made the franchise feel like more of a galactic space opera as opposed to a singular instance, confined to earth.

Or would you rather it be the classic Voltron "here are 5 kids - none of whom are old enough to drink, mind you - and the FIVE of them are going to take on the entire enemy empire...and WIN...because, hey...they got ZORDS..."?

Maybe Shankar's treatment and execution were a bit over-the-top,I can agree to that, but IMO the direction he wanted to take the franchise would be a breath of fresh air

Plus, I officially fox with Joseph Kahn now (also directed Punisher: Dirty Laundry)

@HachibiTheMC ,

All is agreed on in this first paragraph. ;)

I don't know, machine guns just seem so common and mundane for characters like the PRs to be using. But yeah, they be bussin' caps. ;D

I'd love something like that, it's just the display here didn't do it for me.

I'd like for a bit more credibility, perhaps, but at the end of the day, it's not something I expect from PR. I don't really analyze stuff unless I'm given something that's worth analyzing. I don't have to believe this is all real.

If toned down a bit, yes, there's ideas present that would be fabulous to see in an actual film.

"Dirty Laundry" was fricking awesome, and completely appropriate to its source.

Actually the casting of the black actor as the black ranger and the Asian as the yellow ranger was indeed an accident.

Walter Jones was cast to be Jason't best friend and second in command. A spot that in the original series was the role of the black ranger.

Thu Tang was actually a last minute replacement for the yellow ranger when the original actress bowed out at the very last second.