The status of the Power Rangers movie franchise has been up in the air ever since the final box office figures came in. Lionsgate and Saban's big screen reboot, directed by Dean Israelite, enjoyed a big opening weekend, domestically, but ticket sales quickly tailed off and the movie ended up $85 million on home shores. In China, where a strong performance had been widely predicted, it didn't manage to perform well at all, taking around $4.2 million and putting Power Rangers on a worldwide total of $140 million.

Figures like that mean that any home release of Power Rangers imminent, talk is naturally turning to whether this really is the end for the franchise that's barely begun, and speaking to Screen Rant, Israelite echoed a lot of people's sentiments when asked if a second movie could happen:

"I hope so. It’s obviously not up to me, but I know the studio (Lionsgate) and Saban are talking in earnest about it, and are trying to push forward. They’re having a discussion."

As ever, money talks in these cases, but it's still a very good sign that Lionsgate and Saban are discussing a sequel; at the very least it means the idea is not totally dead in the water just yet. Power Rangers served as the perfect origin story for these new, young, and inexperienced Rangers. All coming from different backgrounds, the five assembled not as friends at first, but as individuals with nothing more in common than the possession of a colored crystal. They ended up as a close-knit team of superheroes who worked together to defeat Rita Repulsa and restore peace to Angel Grove.

Not only is thereavoids a PG-13 rating, as that is potentially something that harmed its success, as many deemed the rating to mean it was unsuitable for young children.

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Power Rangers is out on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD from June 27th.