r/Tokusatsu • u/FireFury190 • 20h ago
Is making a live action Power Rangers show even financially viable anymore?
And I'm not talking about regarding the brand's popularity. I'm talking more in terms of the production costs to try and making Power Rangers in the same vein as it usually is. 5-6 rangers, multiple different monsters, giant robots, etc.
I say this because we see even bigger IPs having to take shortcuts when it comes to TV production on things like CGI for monsters, aliens, and robots all the time. Because it's just way too costly. Like look at how for Vision Quest Ultron needs to be played by a human actor because constantly having his CGI model on screen is too expensive. Or the aliens in Lanterns needing to take on a human form for the same budgetary reason.
I mean we've already been seeing budget cuts in toku with how often suits needs to be constantly reused and retooled. If Power Rangers were to ever get a new show I get the feeling it's going to be heavily scaled back. Not just in terms of us not getting the megazord every episode but also very few monsters too.