Netflix is reportedly now not pursuing plans for its live-action Power Rangers sequence.
The present is now not transferring ahead after greater than two years of labor, in response to data that was first shared by @Jinsakuu on X/Twitter and later corroborated by TVLine. Hasbro is now stated to be trying to take the sequence in a brand new artistic path with a brand new accomplice.
In 2020, Hasbro introduced that I’m Not Okay With This co-creator Jonathan Entwistle would oversee a brand new related universe of Power Rangers motion pictures and TV reveals. Daisy & the Six co-executive producer and Supernatural story editor Jenny Klein was beforehand connected as showrunner for the now-canceled present. It’s unclear if she is going to stay connected to the challenge if and when it reemerges.
IGN has reached out to Netflix and Hasbro for remark.
Netflix’s relationship with the Power Rangers franchise extends previous the now-shuttered live-action sequence. Just final 12 months, the streaming megacorporation launched Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Once and Always, a one-hour particular that introduced the return of some acquainted Putty-fighting faces. It was a reunion that we didn’t fairly fall head over heels for, giving it a 6/10 in our evaluation. At the time we stated, “Despite its genuinely emotional story about grief that honors the Yellow Ranger, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once and Always is weighed down by disappointing results and dialogue, even for Power Rangers.”
For extra, you possibly can learn up on the just lately revealed spinoff sport, Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind. Then be sure you try Hasbro’s Lightning Collection set of Power Rangers motion figures.
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