Power Rangers

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/more-power-rangers-films-are-coming/

Hasbro's CEO has made clear that following their recent purchase of the franchise they have aggressive plans for it across all media and that will include a third attempt at making a successful movie franchise of it.

Hasbro is getting deep into reworking its properties for the big screen including the upcoming reboot of Transformers and plans for GI Joe so Power Rangers will likely be a priority.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/hasbro-paramount-to-reboot-power-rangers/

Hasbro talks with Paramount are now underway to start work on a third movie iteration of the franchise

[Asura]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/hasbro-p...power-rangers/

Hasbro talks with Paramount are now underway to start work on a third movie iteration of the franchise

Aww, what? Are they going to reboot it?

The previous one was fun! Surprisingly so! Literally the only thing I disliked where the Zords; didn't like the biomechanical thing they had going on. They're supposed to look like 80s Voltron!

[Dogg Thang]

Yeah, I watched it for the first time last weekend and it wasn't bad. I hated the visual design which had that busy Bayformers thing. I couldn't tell what I was looking at half the time. And I found the tone very disjointed. But I really liked the characters and felt there was definitely potential for a better sequel.

[Neon Ignition]

Yup, 100% reboot. The most recent one was a pretty heavy bomb so it's said that it's sales of the toys that's led to this new version.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/entwistle-develops-power-rangers-reboot/

The creator of the Netflix series The End of the F***ing World is in talks to write this latest reboot.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.darkhorizons.com/new-power-rangers-set-at-netflix/

The new reboot film will be launched on Netflix and the service plans to make multiple films and shows to create a Netflix exclusive Power Rangers Cinematic Universe

[Asura]

https://www.darkhorizons.com/new-pow...et-at-netflix/
The new reboot film will be launched on Netflix and the service plans to make multiple films and shows to create a Netflix exclusive Power Rangers Cinematic Universe

I think this is going to be the next wave.

A few years ago, after the success of the MCU, every studio tried to launch a CU. All of them failed, even though many had individually successful films (closest was probably the Godzilla monsterverse, and best not to even mention "the dark CU" ).

I suspect now, Netflix, Amazon, the rest, the streaming services will have a go.

[wakka]

My favourite one was the Dark Universe. There is nothing more hilarious than a 'Cinematic Universe' exactly one film long.

The whole idea of a cinematic universe sucks anyway. There's only ever been one (Marvel, obviously), which although it isn't my personal cup of tea, is pretty unbelievably well done and has the ideal source material for it.

All of the others suggested don't have the source material, or the vision, just dollar signs behind the eyes of the executives commissioning them.

Doomed to failure, the lot of 'em.

[Asura]

All of the others suggested don't have the source material, or the vision, just dollar signs behind the eyes of the executives commissioning them.

Some of them were largely PR, too - like when they started talking about the GCU before Ghostbusters: Answer the Call was released.

[wakka]

They kind of always do that. Every cinematic universe except Marvel has been all talk so far, usually before they've even released single film.

The Ghostbusters one was another bonkers idea. As if there is remotely enough content to justify that. The original film is great, but hardly comparable to 50 years of hundreds of comic book characters as a source material for a 'universe'.

[Neon Ignition]

The Dark Universe was fine in concept as it mirrored the Universal Monsters Universe from decades ago but it was shackled to modern Fast and Furious/Minions era Universal who like many others failed to understand the basics of how Marvel made theirs work - i.e the pre-Avengers films just needed to be all decent.

They should have been much more smaller scale in their ambitions and instead looked to the other successful modern era cinematic universe example - The Conjuring Cinematic Universe. Much lower budgets, very strong profit margins, lower risk.

For Netflix, it's a bandwagon thing like their plans to make a Willy Wonka Cinematic Universe. With Power Rangers it's just an intent to make series spin-offs. I don't know anywhere near enough about Power Rangers but I always took it that the existing many show variants barring the recent reboot film where largely all continuations and/or related to each other anyway?

[Asura]

I don't know anywhere near enough about Power Rangers but I always took it that the existing many show variants barring the recent reboot film where largely all continuations and/or related to each other anyway?

Yeah, they have a Marvel Comics-esque web of inter-relatedness.