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I'd been thinking about the reunion one-off specials in Sentai (the 10 Years After series), with the key there being that Sentai acknowledges that their audience also grew up, too (Dekaranger was a bit more complex and bloody than their show, albeit still well within PG/PG-13 territory rather than G). But then I started fantasizing about what that would look like for an audience that is *30* years older now.
Budget be damned, I'd really love it if a live-action movie was the originals (substituting Aisha for Trini, wherein Thuy Trang would get a fitting tribute) back together, and Tommy with just the Green Ranger powers. The story being that essentially the Zeo Rangers (an excuse to bring back Kat, Tanya, Adam, and Rocky) tried to lead an army of successor rangers against a brand new foe and all were defeated/drained of their powers (echoes of Gokaiger). Tommy loses his Zeo powers and only his Green Ranger powers remain, and so he reunites the last force left on Earth -- the original Rangers who have all otherwise retired to daily, every day life.
But that's just the excuse to get the band back together. It's not a single battle, but rather a quest. What friendships continued and which ones disintegrated over time? Was Jason really honest about his feelings towards Tommy when he took over as leader? How about Billy when he was twice-rejected by fate from becoming a Zeo Ranger? Can Tommy juggle the weight of both saving the world *and* rescue his wife Kat? Can they still work together, and how rusty are they? What tensions would they have now that would have been impossible when they were youth, and vice versa? What can their friendship survive? And can they stand together against a threat so unlike Rita and so powerful that it beat the combined might of all their successors for one last hurrah? They're not just fighting a new threat far beyond anything they could have dreamt in 1993, but now they're fighting for the legacy they've left behind, one that was forged from their own high school friendship.
This movie would still have to be all-ages *enough* that would still appeal to kids but engage parents that grew up with the show. After all, that's two ends of a toy-buying spectrum right there.