Q: If you were given total control over a pop culture franchise, which one would you pick, and what would you do with it?
A: The Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. And here’s what I would do with it . . . I would re-release it as a limited edition Blu-Ray box set with one and only one major change: I would re-dub all of the villains to be super R-rated-they would basically end up sounding like the characters in a Rob Zombie or a Quentin Tarantino movie. They’re using all of the words. They’re extremely rude, abusive, mean-spirited, selfish, sadistic and kinda stupid in the end. Everything else would be unchanged. Minimal effort, minimal time, minimal money spent-very much in the Saban Brands tradition. Because I like that the heroic characters are all very corny, very innocent-that works for me. But I’ve always been frustrated that Rita and Zedd and Goldar and Rita’s brother Rito are so edgeless, and so tame-especially when they look so cool, so GWAR, y’know? Although I would keep Zedd’s line about his biscuits being burned-maybe just add some George Carlin words on the front end to spice it up a bit. Yeah. That’s the pop culture intellectual property do-over I’d like to supervise. For sure.
