I don’t know if naming those franchises means Power Rangers will now be skewing a little older, but it’s a valuable brand nonetheless. In a press release, Saban Brands said Lionsgate was a good match because the studio has been able to successfully create franchises out of The Hunger Games, Twilight, and Divergent. The series is still on the air (the titles keep changing, and now it’s called “Power Rangers Megaforce“) and there have been three movies, but now Lionsgate and Saban want to create a new, live-action feature film. The episodes always end by ripping off Voltron as each ranger pilots an animal vehicle, and then the vehicles combine to make a really big vehicle that defeats a really big enemy. For those who never watched the show (and I only saw its original incarnation), it’s about a giant floating head that bestows five teenagers with special powers that allow them to morph into brightly-colored rangers who fight evil aliens. Lionsgate and Saban are going to be more than happy to give it to them in the form of a new live-action film.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers debuted in 1993, and now that it’s a little over twenty years later, those ten-year-olds are now thirty-year-olds who probably want a piece of their childhood back.
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