Disney+ is trying to reboot Power Rangers

Those of you who don’t keep strong tabs on the state of kids media might be surprised to learn that this new reboot effort comes just a year after the most recent season of Power Rangers, Cosmic Fury, arrived on Netflix, because Power Rangers has just kept trucking along even as various cohorts of fans have aged out of its demographics. The franchise has bounced all over the airwaves over the last three decades, but the streamer was its most recent home; Netflix was originally supposed to serve as the host for this reboot, too, but those plans apparently fell through. Now Steinberg and Shotz are in talks to reinvent the franchise, which originally began airing on Fox back in 1993.

The biggest question to our minds, vis-à-vis this reinvention plan, is whether the new show will stick to the basic production framework for the series, which takes footage from Japan’s various Super Sentai shows and merges them with footage produced in the U.S. to create new stories with Western stars, or if the new show will take the much more expensive option of filming all those “guys in suits pretending to be giant robot” battles itself. Hasbro is clearly committed to making something work, because the the company is on a serious TV kick at the moment, also developing shows in its Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering universes. Honestly, we’re just kind of surprised they’re going after Steinberg and Shotz, who are presumably going to be pretty busy with Jackson stuff for the foreseeable future; on the other hand, the duo have shown a real ability to get something crowd-pleasing in front of very critical fans, so maybe it’s just a matter of going with confirmed hitmakers and making room for their schedules as needed.