Who would be a good director/writer for PR?

[marypink97]

I think JJ abrams would do a great job with PR. Most of his works turn out to be amazing, at least for me.

[Cmdr Crayfish]

Someone willing to work under the impossible restrictions required of both of its corporate owners, as well as Bandai.

[ajmcc]

I guess abrams can add a budget and make it an hr long if it was a pg series

[Javert]

Joss Whedon would a be a great director for Power Rangers. However, I don't think he would ever do it.

[Cmdr Crayfish]

Joss "NO ONE CAN EVER BE HAPPY EVER, HHHHUUUUGGGGGHHHHH I'M SPENT" Whedon is the last person I want touching PR. And I LIKE Whedon.

[Fenix84]

Abrams and Whedon are such geek cliches that they're named for practically EVERYTHING. Can the people naming them even describe their styles? Not that I consider myself an expert on their works, but I'm just wondering if these suggestions go any deeper than naming a famous director with geek cred. Hypothetically, how could Abrams and Whedon put their stamp on a show like PR, under the content, budget, and talent restrictions that PR is actually constrained by? Can you imagine PR baseline actors, or Samurai-level actors, trying to pull off snappy dialogue?

[blackdinoranger5]

why not cameron or spieldberg? cameron can make a simple story HUGE and spieldberg were to begin on how awsome that would be. Lucas gosh no.

[Fenix84]

Sigh, more iconic Hollywood directors who have worked with the luxury of $100 million plus budgets. Is anyone going to name even a single TV director in this thread, or better yet someone who's worked in children's television?

Lucas has his faults, and is so particular about making movies exactly as he wants them that I doubt he could even work in a low budget, serial television series. Look at the proposed Star Wars series, which has been indefinitely delayed because he didn't think current technology could produce a weekly show to his standards, at a reasonable cost.

But let's get real here. A lot of Lucas-bashing is extremely over the top, and PR isn't exactly the best ground to cast stones from. Lucas's recent work easily bests the PR of well, most of the last decade. We've had maybe two good seasons in the last eight, and current PR is likely the worst scripted show on TV. I'm looking for a sports analogy to PR fandom. I want to say the Red Sox, except I think they actually managed a bunch of decent seasons even during the "curse" years. At this point, any director or producer who so much as cares about his product's story is better than what we have.

[Cmdr Crayfish]

Eddie cared too much. We do NOT need "auteurs" who want to leave their own stamp on PR. We need good, reliable hacks. We need Man of Action (fun fact, they're who Saban contacted about Power Rider, but they had to decline), we need Bob Forward or Larry DiTillio. I will gladly take Bob Skir and Marty Eisenberg. Someone. Anyone. With an experience in making toy-based kidvid not suck preferably.

[Fenix84]

Yeah, good point. RPM wasn't true to the PR style while being much better than Samurai, but objectively Eddie is the worst PR showrunner for not being able to keep his job. Nice choices too, though I'm embarassed to say I had to Google them to know what exactly they worked on. Wish I could put forth some names, but most of my non-PR childhood viewing habits were based around X-Men, Spider-Man, and the DCAU Timmverse.

Watch someone namedrop Chris Nolan in the next few posts.