{"id":42272,"date":"2023-09-30T17:17:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T17:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/30\/power-rangers-cosmic-fury-ep-simon-bennet-talks-hasbro-interference\/"},"modified":"2023-09-30T17:17:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T17:17:38","slug":"power-rangers-cosmic-fury-ep-simon-bennet-talks-hasbro-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/30\/power-rangers-cosmic-fury-ep-simon-bennet-talks-hasbro-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Rangers Cosmic Fury EP Simon Bennet talks Hasbro interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was a Hasbro Board decision to make Cosmic Fury 10 episodes only. CF had 2 months of filming. Netflix was willing to do a 20 episode season<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jyuki\u26a1 (@JyukiCollects) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JyukiCollects\/status\/1707865994608410929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-As you know, PR: Cosmic Fury is now here and the final season of Power Rangers as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>-Simon Bennet went to Spaces (before twitter does away with it) to talk about the final season<\/p>\n<p>-Netflix wanted 20 episodes of CF but Hasbro only allowed 10.<\/p>\n<p>-Hasbro refused to allow Zayto who was once the Red Ranger to become the White Ranger believing it would be problematic due to the actor being black<\/p>\n<p>-Hasbro wanted little to no connection between Cosmic Fury and the MMPR special<\/p>\n<p>-They were paranoid about Lord Zedds &#8216;Z&#8217; insignia looking like an N if it were turned sideways<\/p>\n<p>-Hasbro accused production of cultural appropriation for making Robo Rita look too Japanese<\/p>\n<p>-Simon and co. ensured the writers room was diverse so they had a lesbian writer on staff to ensure Izzy\/Fern were properly written, black\/Asian writers to ensure characters such as Zayto, Aiyon, Ollie were properly written, etc..<\/p>\n<p>-They were forced to keep the characters optimistic which lead to a very big scene with a character getting severely watered down<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JyukiCollects\/status\/1707865994608410929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Source<\/a><br \/> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/126947528.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a Hasbro Board decision to make Cosmic Fury 10 episodes only. CF had 2 months of filming. Netflix was willing to do a 20 episode season \u2014 Jyuki\u26a1 (@JyukiCollects) September 29, 2023 -As you know, PR: Cosmic Fury is now here and the final season of Power Rangers as we know it. -Simon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}