Power Rangers' Reboot in the Works with Paramount

[Apoho Creed]

‘Power Rangers’ Reboot in the Works With Creator of ‘It’s the End of the F—ing World’ (Exclusive)

Jonathan Entwistle, perhaps best known for creating Netflix series ‘The End of the F—ing World,’ is taking on ‘Power Rangers,’ a new version of the colorful family adv…

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This time, the feature is in Paramount's hands.It’s Morphin time for Jonathan Entwistle

The filmmaker, perhaps best known for creating Netflix series The End of the F---ing World, is taking on Power Rangers, a new version of the colorful family adventure franchise, this time set up at Paramount Pictures.

Entwistle is in early negotiations to direct a new feature project that would reboot the title.

Rangers was a ’90s TV series and global marketing franchise, initially called The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, that used footage from a Japanese children’s show. The premise involved a group of kids who become superheroes, each with his or her own color-coordinated outfit and matching helmet. The show first aired on Fox Kids, then in the 2000s on Disney-owned channels. A movie also hit theaters in 1995.

Lionsgate produced and released a feature in 2017 that rebooted the title, making it less kid-friendly and giving it a more brooding YA edge. The movie bombed, grossing only $142 million worldwide on a budget of around $100 million, and plans for a series of films scrapped.

Now in Paramount’s court, Rangers is getting rebooted once more, in a way that hopes to bring the franchise to its roots. The story is said to involve a time-travel element that brings the kids to the 1990s, and in Back to the Future fashion, they have to find a way to get back to their present. Patrick Burleigh, who wrote the upcoming Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, is penning the script.

Hasbro, which bought the property from creator Haim Saban in 2018, is producing the feature via its film arm, Allspark Pictures.

On the surface, Entwistle is an outside-the-box choice for the shiny franchise as his Netflix show is dark and envelope-pushing, about the opposite of what you can get for a Hasbro property. The show, a dark comedy that he directed and exec produced and that debuted its second season in November, told of the growing friendship between a teenage boy who believes he is a sociopath and is looking for a person to kill and a girl who persuades him to ditch their homes for a road trip.

Entwistle is currently in post on I’m Not Okay With This, another Netflix show he co-created, exec produced and directed. Also teenage-centric, Not Okay focuses on a girl dealing with high school life, her budding sexuality and superpowers.

But the director, repped by CAA and Grandview, has shown he has a grasp on the voice of the younger generation, which execs hope will translate into something unique and appealing onscreen.

First of all I like to update that I'll be updating and doing Part 5 of Green with Evil with my PR Watchthrough after a huge break, but this is huge news for me being a massive fan. I thought the film in 2017 was good, but man the Goldar look and him having no personality really angered me and those little things really split the liking of the film for viewers. A dream for me would be for me a new group of kids who get sent back in time to see the Rangers we grew up with them passing the torch to them. I do wonder if the Kids go back in time do they get their Ranger powers back in time because in their time they don't exist?

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I'm a Power Rangers fan and will see this, but didn't we just do a reboot?

 

[Kiffy Lube]

If this one doesn't have Bulk and Skull, I am done. I didn't mind the first reboot but man a few comedic scenes involvin' two young, bumblin' clowns gettin' owned could have made it a lot more fun.

 

[Cwalker]

They literally had a movie in 2017; why are they rebooting?

 

[Apoho Creed]

I'm a Power Rangers fan and will see this, but didn't we just do a reboot?

Yeah a few years ago and it bombed money wise, and with Hasbro taking over rights from Saban a Sequel was put on the backburner. Sucks too because Tommy might of been in the Sequel and I would of loved to see it be a female Tommy.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Yeah a few years ago and it bombed money wise, and with Hasbro taking over rights from Saban a Sequel was put on the backburner. Sucks too because Tommy might of been in the Sequel and I would of loved to see it be a female Tommy.

I'm normally for female bent characters, but Tommy is no go with me because I need Tommy-Kimberly in my Rangers.

Unless they were lesbians, I guess.

 

[Cwalker]

I'm normally for female bent characters, but Tommy is no go with me because I need Tommy-Kimberly in my Rangers.

Unless they were lesbians, I guess.

I’d rather see a Tommy(if it’s a chick) Kimberly flick over another Power Ranger flick.

Only if it’s the original Pink Ranger though cause I think that’s every man in my age group first crush

 

[Apoho Creed]

I'm normally for female bent characters, but Tommy is no go with me because I need Tommy-Kimberly in my Rangers.

Unless they were lesbians, I guess.

Well in the 2017 film Trini pretty much told us she's into girls so it wouldn't shock me to see them change up some things with the reboot too.

Oh for sure Topanga from Boy Meets World and Kimberly had my heart as a kid we will see if they get that outta me again.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Well in the 2017 film Trini pretty much told us she's into girls so it wouldn't shock me to see them change up some things with the reboot too.

I mean I didn't mind that, but I mean I need Tommy and Kimberly to be together. My nostalgia is too huge for change.

 

[Cwalker]

Well in the 2017 film Trini pretty much told us she's into girls so it wouldn't shock me to see them change up some things with the reboot too.

Oh for sure Topanga from Boy Meets World and Kimberly had my heart as a kid we will see if they get that outta me again.

Dont get me started on Topanga

 

[Lady Redfield]

FFS, can my childhood just RIP?

 

[Vegeta]

I mean, I'll probably see it. We'll see. Just depends what they do with it.

 

[Deezy]

Enough of this shit......was stupid back in the day......it's still stupid now.