There Is Going to Be a New ‘Power Rangers’ Movie Based on TV Continuity
By George Robbins
The ‘Power Rangers‘ series is one that has been around for many, many years at this point and still continues on to this day. It has stayed within public knowledge due to the many years spent by the TV series building up knowledge of the titular characters. No matter what the subject is or how crazy the plots of each serialization end up being, the ‘Power Rangers’ has remained essentially the same as time went on. There are many who grew up watching it that keep the flame alive, so to speak, for the series today and it is the reason why they are still prominent in this day and age. It should really not be any kind of surprise that there would end up being yet another ‘Power Rangers’ film in production, but unlike the last film that was made as a reboot, the new one will continue with the continuity of the TV shows.
The original serialization, otherwise known as the ‘Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers,’ was a show that children born in the late 80’s and children born in the 90’s fell in love with. The first series ran for a strong three years with a movie to help encapsulate what made it great and to revitalize the series. After that movie, there was another one which led the way into the next series of the show and served as a perfect tie-in to explain how they planned on moving from one generation to the next. These were met by a lot of fans falling in love with the series; with fans of the originals going on to watch the next few iterations of Rangers. When Haim Saban made the serialization and put it on TV, he created a fan base that would go on for generations.
While many of the original fans of the series have stopped watching the newest iterations of the Rangers and their exploits on television, it hasn’t changed the fact that those people still love the characters. The most recent film, aptly named ‘Saban’s Power Rangers,’ was not a big hit like the studio thought it might be. The film was a reboot of the original story and it was supposed to tell a story that took seasons to tell on television within a limited amount of time. This gave fans of the original characters something to complain about and resulted in the film not being as well done as they would have hoped. There is now some glimmer of hope for fans as it was recently announced that there would yet again be another film based upon the characters.
The biggest worry going into this new film is that it will just repeat what the reboot film had done, and we will end up with something that people feel doesn’t really encapsulate what the original series was. While this new movie will be a reboot of sorts, it will also tie into the stories that people have seen over the past 27 years of the serialization’s existence. This new movie is reportedly going to include the past series’ and will include suits from those series as well as past Zords. This lends a lot of opportunity to the movie which is supposed to somehow tie-in to all of the previous years of content. Hopefully it will end up being a film that fans of all ages enjoy, but it is a steep hill that the movie will have to climb as time goes on.