The “Power Rangers” suits from what appears to be Netflix’s scrapped reboot are public now, and the story behind them is a lot messier than a clean cancellation. Artist Samuel Garcia posted the art on Instagram for a “Power Rangers” series he said was “sadly shelved.” His first post shows the Red Ranger suit and its “morphing effect”, which ScreenRant says Garcia called his “favorite piece from the project.” A second post adds the Blue and Green Ranger suits. ComicBook.com reports that Garcia was given the clear to share the art, so this is an artist releasing old work with permission rather than a studio unveiling a new look.
Garcia did not name the client, and that is the first thing to get straight. Gizmodo notes that his ArtStation page lists Netflix among his clients and that he said he had a “great time” working with the studio 9B Collective on the project, a company whose credits include Netflix features. ComicBook.com says the art is not explicitly tied to Netflix’s version, though Garcia’s description of a canceled project “from a few years back” puts it in the right window. ScreenRant treats it as the Netflix reboot outright, and ComicBookMovie.com calls Jonathan Entwistle and Jenny Klein’s take the most likely possibility. Warning beyond this point there are spoilers for what the concept art shows and for how the Netflix and Disney+ reboots fell apart.
Garcia did not name the client, and that is the first thing to get straight.”
The Netflix project had a long run before it died. TVLine reported that Entwistle was tapped in October 2020 to oversee both TV and film development for the franchise, a plan he called a “cinematic universe”, and that Klein signed a two-year overall deal with eOne in June 2022 that included showrunning the series. In June 2024, TVLine’s sources confirmed that the series, in development at Netflix for more than two years, would not proceed at Netflix, and that Hasbro was exploring a new creative direction with a new partner. TVLine did not say who pulled the plug. ScreenRant describes it as Netflix and Hasbro ending their partnership, while Entwistle blamed corporate upheaval, saying in comments ScreenRant published in 2025 that once “eOne was no more” the show and its movies “just got lost in that shuffle.”
The scale of that plan is clear from how its backers first pitched it. In November 2020, Den of Geek noted that a Hasbro press release promised “non-kid” adaptations, and that Entwistle told Insider he was “mapping out a whole new world of movies and television and animation.” A year later, when Deadline reported the Netflix deal, eOne’s Michael Lombardo said the company had pitched “really a whole-world approach”, as Slashfilm quoted him, with “shows followed by films, some kids’ programming.” SyFy Wire described it as a shared universe of films and TV shows. If Garcia’s art does come from that project, the suits were meant to belong to something much larger than one series.
Entwistle supplied the creative details himself, in a Reddit AMA that ScreenRant covered in May 2025. He said Tommy Oliver sat at the center of the world he built, in a “time-bending HUGE story” about stopping Drakkon, an evil version of Tommy that ComicBookMovie.com says was set to be the main villain, from taking power. The series was to open with a “really cool King Arthur-vibe”, more mystical and magical, and Klein, who TVLine describes as a veteran “Supernatural” story editor coming off NBC’s “The Thing About Pam”, came up with “a very very cool idea for sentient colors.” Entwistle called the approach “Star Wars level”, but said Hasbro “just couldn’t get everyone behind the same approach.”
Hasbro’s next attempt, however, did not last either. ScreenRant says Hasbro Entertainment and 20th Television announced a live-action “Power Rangers” series for Disney+ in March 2025, with “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” showrunners Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz confirmed that December. In August, TheWrap reported that Disney+ would not move forward, and that the project would not leave development, citing business-related decisions. ScreenCrush, quoting Deadline, says the stated reason was budget, because a high-end live-action superhero series costs more when the streamer and the studio do not own the property. So both the Netflix series and the Disney+ series are gone.
Little is known about what the Disney+ version would have become. According to TheWrap, Steinberg and Shotz were in talks to write, showrun and produce it with Hasbro, in a series meant to reinvent the franchise for a new generation. Deadline, as ScreenCrush quotes it, says the project was set up “about a year and a half ago” with 20th Television as the studio. ComicBookMovie.com admits it does not know what the creators planned, but recalls rumors that Priyanka Chopra was eyed for Rita Repulsa and that Mason Thames and Peyton Elizabeth Lee were among the names in the mix for the Rangers. Its latest word, though, is a rumor that Prime Video might acquire the rights.
What the art shows is the more useful part. Gizmodo reads Garcia’s designs as a three-person team of Red, Green and Blue, a break from earlier shows where a trio of Rangers meant Red, Blue and Yellow. The site also says the morph effect looks built from the series’ lightning bolt logo, with electricity changing the team from top to bottom in a way that recalls Thor. It sees the original “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” in the white diamond and the helmets, and the 2017 film in the pattern work. ComicBookMovie.com adds that these were exploratory designs rather than final suits, and that the plan was for the Red Ranger to be a young Asian woman.
Garcia’s own ArtStation résumé adds some background. It describes him as a Miami concept artist and illustrator, originally from Havana, whose clients include Atomic Arcade, Netflix, Gearbox, 9B Collective and VOLTA, and it says Wacom featured him under “Rising Star.” The page lists clients but no individual projects. The 9B Collective site calls the company the “first Black-Owned Concept Art Studio”, founded by Phillip Boutté Jr., Mike Uwandi and actor Aldis Hodge. Its founders’ credits include “Black Panther” and “The Mandalorian”, and the profile site YesPress lists the 2023 film “Blue Beetle” as a notable credit for the studio.
The reaction has been cool. ComicBook.com reports that fans were not keen on the designs, and that some said they were glad the series never happened. That is a harsh read of designs ComicBookMovie.com describes as exploratory, but the 2017 film hangs over all of it. TheWrap says that movie made around $142 million on a budget of around $100 million, which derailed sequel plans, and any new Rangers look is going to be measured against it. Gizmodo says it reached out to 9B Collective for comment on whose show this was, and until someone with a name on the paperwork answers, the Netflix link stays an educated guess.
For now, the franchise on screen is mostly its past. TVLine notes that the first series, “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers”, debuted in 1993, and TheWrap says it was based on the Japanese “Super Sentai” shows. Netflix released the 30th-anniversary special “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always”, which ScreenCrush says brought back several original cast members in 2023. The main TV run ended that year with “Cosmic Fury”, and ScreenRant says it is unclear what comes next, while Boom! Studios keeps publishing three comic series. ComicBook.com says no new project has been in development since the Disney+ cancellation, and calls the franchise “currently on ice.”
What Do You Think? Do the Red, Green and Blue suits look like a fresh start or a rerun of the 2017 film? Is a three-Ranger team a smart change or a missing Yellow? And if Hasbro gets one more try, who should it hand the keys to this time?
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