Genre: | |
Based On: | Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters by Toei Company |
Developer: | Saban Brands Hasbro Toei Company |
Showrunner: | Judd "Chip" Lynn |
Director: | Simon Bennett Yuji Noguchi Oliver Driver Riccardo Pellizzeri |
Starring: | See below |
Theme Music Composer: | Noam Kaniel Cash Callaway[1] Ian Osborne |
Composer: | Matt McGuire Noam Kaniel[2] [3] Youssef "Joe" Guezoum[4] [5] Cash Callaway[6] Ian Osborne |
Country: | United States Japan |
Language: | English |
Num Seasons: | 2 |
Num Episodes: | 44 |
Executive Producer: |
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Location: | New Zealand (Auckland) Japan (Greater Tokyo Area (Tokyo, Saitama, Yokohama)) and Kyoto) |
Camera: | Single-camera |
Runtime: | 22 minutes |
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Network: | Nickelodeon |
Opentheme: | "Power Rangers Beast Morphers" performed by Cash Callaway |
Cinematography: | Kevin Riley (DOP) Sean Mclin (2nd unit) Ollie Jones (Camera Operator/DOP) |
Creative Director: | Becca Barnes Alwyn Dale Judd "Chip" Lynn |
Related: | Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel Power Rangers Dino Fury Power Rangers RPM |
Power Rangers Beast Morphers is the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh seasons of the American television program Power Rangers. The first season premiered on Nickelodeon on March 2, 2019, while the second season premiered on February 22, 2020, and concluded on December 12, 2020.
Beast Morphers was the only television series to be produced by Hasbro's production studio Allspark before it was absorbed into Entertainment One in October 2020, as well as the first in the franchise to have all toys manufactured and distributed by Hasbro.[7] [8] [9] Both seasons were produced using footage, costumes, and props from the thirty-sixth entry in the Japanese long-running tokusatsu drama Super Sentai series, Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters which aired in 2012. The series also serves as a direct sequel to Power Rangers RPM (2009).[10]
Beast Morphers was originally to be produced by Saban Brands. During pre-production, Hasbro acquired the Power Rangers franchise and other entertainment assets from Saban Brands and the latter company subsequently closed on July 2, 2018.[11] [12]
Scientists in the city of Coral Harbor have discovered a way to convert the infinite power of the Morphin Grid into a physical substance called "Morph-X", providing the city with a source of unlimited clean energy. To protect the city, a secret agency known as Grid Battleforce combines Morph-X with animal DNA to create a new team of Power Rangers. Now the Beast Morpher Rangers - Devon Daniels, Ravi Shaw, and Zoey Reeves - must defend the Morphin Grid from Evox, an evil sentient computer virus from another dimension and his evil avatar clones of the original Ranger candidates Blaze and Roxy, who were rendered comatose. After the three of them are transported to the Cyber Dimension, Evox, Cybervillain Blaze, and Cybervillain Roxy gain its de facto ruler Scrozzle as an ally as he helps them in their plan to return Evox to Earth.[13]
As the Rangers battle Evox's robot monsters, they gain two new additions to the team: Nate Silva, the head researcher and scientist of Grid Battleforce who becomes the Gold Ranger and Steel, a robot Nate was forced to create as a body for Evox, who gains sentience and becomes the Silver Ranger.
In the second season, Evox possesses Mayor Daniels and plots to finish what he started with the help of Scrozzle, who uses a machine to revive the Blaze and Roxy avatars as robots. Along the way, the Rangers uncover Evox's true origins and receive help from the original, Dino Thunder, and Dino Charge Rangers as well as allies of the Ranger Operators to defeat Evox and his minions once and for all.
See main article: List of Power Rangers Beast Morphers characters. Rangers
Supporting characters
Villains
Guest stars
See main article: Lists of Power Rangers episodes.
Saban Brands announced on February 12, 2018, that it had renewed its partnership with Nickelodeon for an additional three years now going until 2021.[23] In a joint statement on February 15, 2018, Saban announced that it would not renew its master toy license with Bandai going forward and that the current license would expire on April 1, 2019, ending a 25-year partnership dating back to 1993 with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.[24] The following day on February 16, 2018, at New York Toy Fair 2018, Hasbro announced that it had acquired the master toy license from Saban Brands, revealed a re-branded logo for the Power Rangers franchise and mentioned that their contract with Saban Brands included an option to negotiate the purchase of the Power Rangers franchise from Saban Brands at a later time if they chose.[7] The next day on February 17, 2018, at the New York Toy Fair, Hasbro announced that their toys would start to appear in April 2019 and that the Super Sentai series Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters would be the first season adapted under the re-branded Power Rangers logo as Power Rangers Beast Morphers.[13]
On May 1, 2018, Hasbro announced that it had agreed to purchase the Power Rangers franchise from Saban Brands in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $522 million.[11] On May 25, 2018, it was revealed that Saban Brands was preparing to lay off a majority of its employees with Saban Brands ceasing operation on July 2, 2018, though its parent company Saban Capital Group would remain open for business.[25]
Judd "Chip" Lynn, who resumed executive producer duties for Power Rangers since Dino Charge, returned for Beast Morphers.[26]
The first season finished filming on December 20, 2018.[27] The second season began filming about a month later.[28] Filming for the second season finished on May 22, 2019.[29] [30]
Noam Kaniel (Noam) composes the music for the series alongside Youssef "Joe" Guezoum, and Matt McGuire.[2] [4]