The Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers are going to get a comeback. Disney+ has reportedly ordered a brand new Energy Rangers sequence that can “reinvent the franchise for a complete new era of followers.”
Based on The Wrap, Percy Jackson and the Olympians showrunners Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz are in negotiations with Disney+ and twentieth Century TV to put in writing and produce the brand new Energy Rangers, and function the showrunners as nicely. Percy Jackson was lately renewed for a 3rd season by Disney+ forward of the second season later this yr. Steinberg and Shotz had been additionally behind the FX unique sequence The Old Man, which was canceled after two seasons.
The unique Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers sequence debuted on Fox in 1993, and it began a popular culture sensation by importing footage from Japanese Tremendous Sentai sequence with costumed heroes, large robots and monsters earlier than repurposing it with footage filmed with an American solid. The present was so profitable that the primary Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers film premiered in 1995. A second movie adopted in 1997, and the present remained on the air in several incarnations and new solid members for 30 seasons.
Lionsgate tried to reboot Power Rangers with a new feature film in 2017, nevertheless the movie didn’t do nicely sufficient on the field workplace to justify any sequels. Netflix was additionally planning to reboot Energy Rangers from the bottom up, however that undertaking didn’t come to fruition. The streamer did premiere the thirtieth anniversary particular, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once and Always, in 2023, which featured a handful of unique solid members reprising their roles.
Sarcastically, Disney owned the rights to Energy Rangers from 2001 to 2010, earlier than the studio offered them again to Saban. Hasbro is the present proprietor of the Energy Rangers franchise, and Hasbro Studios will produce the brand new sequence alongside Disney+ and twentieth Century TV.
