The Hollywood Reporter says Paramount is working on a new Power Rangers movie. The studio is negotiating with British filmmaker Jonathan Entwistle, best known for developing the Netflix series The End of the F—ing World, about a kid who believes he’s a sociopath and wants to murder someone. That’s just the mindset you want for a big-budget adaptation of a cheesy 1990s TV show about teenagers piloting robots and fighting giant monsters sent by a space witch. The story of this Power Rangers reboot would send the protagonists back to the 1990s for that sweet, sweet nostalgia feels. Patrick Burleigh (Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway) is working on the script.
Based on the Japanese Super Sentai series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers first aired on FOX Kids in 1993. The series became a massive hit in the US, leading to many sequel shows, including Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers in Space, Power Rangers Time Force, Power Rangers DinoThunder, etc. There were also two low-budget Power Rangers movies released in the mid-1990s. In 2017 Dan Israelite (Are You Afraid of the Dark) directed a big-budget Power Rangers reboot. The movie was a box office flop: filmed for $100 million, it earned a mere $140 million worldwide.
