I know there’s a near zero chance that will ever happen, especially with Super Sentai taking a break, but we can always hope. Especially since a Return Movie or even a Mini-Series would be perfect way for Toei to promote these new mechs. It doesn’t even have to be live action like the original Gaoranger series, they can pull a “Fuuto PI” & make the sequel series / movie an anime.
Now, I know that this will probably never happen due to Illumination already said to be working on the Star Fox movie. But with the Nintendo cinematic universe clearly taking different mediums of filmmaking for their different IPs, with the Mario movies being 3D animated and the Legend of Zelda being live action, I wondered what if they were to expand their choice of filmmaking and instead make a 2D anime-style Star Fox Movie, very similar to Fox McCloud’s introduction scene in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie; and have the opening / introduction scene to the main characters being in the style puppets of the 1960s or 1990s, very similar to either the 1960s’s Thunderbirds (a show that Shigeru Miyamoto has actively said he was a fan of) or the Japanese commercials for the original Star Fox of the 1990s (and what Shigeru Miyamoto would’ve hoped taken off into a puppet TV show starring the cast of Star Fox). I can already picture it.
An opening scene in the style of the Thunderbirds, with Fox McCloud doing a heroic yet cheesy introduction / monologue to Team Star Fox, the Lylat Galaxy, and the team’s mission to keep the galaxy safe from the evil clutches of Dr. Andross (in 1960s film-style filter for the film and the audio and even have the aspect ratio be similar to the aspect ratio of the TV shows of the 1960s). While also giving a short backstory for James McCloud, the original founder of Star Fox and his heroic sacrifice to save his team on Planet Venom. All before the music and the film quickly cuts off and stops with a loud record scratching sound as one of his teammates, most likely either Falco or Peppy Hare, quickly snapped Fox out of his heroic monologue and the film quickly changes into the movie theatre’s aspect ratio and changes into a 2D anime movie in the literal next shot.
Again, I know this will probably never happen but I do hope for a small chance that I am wrong.
First of all, rest in peace to the Tokusatsu Legend. Second of all, I find it a real big misopportunity that Toei never brought this idea to life when making Gozyuger considering how much Mr. Kenji has been a part of Tokusatsu’s history. I don’t think it would be that hard for them to cast Mr. Kenji into the role of a Universe Warrior. Imagine how cool it would’ve been to see Kenji Ôba transform into a Red Ranger.
I know there’s already one made by @3821_kiyurino on Twitter in 2023. But no offense (I do actually like the video and their Powered Dada suit they used for the video) but that one was very short and vague. All it showed was Powered Dada creepily approaching the camera very slowly before a quick jump scare at the end. Again not bad, but too vague compare to the actual Powered Dada and their goals on the original Ultraman Powered series. I’m talking an Analog Horror video that’s around a few minutes long but shows a short video &/or warning to the viewers about Powered Dada and it’s goal to kill as many humans as possible and reconfigure their dead bodies into becoming one of their own through the use of technology, especially through the screens of TVs, phones, tablets, computers, & movie theaters.
And I don’t mean the original Akaranger, Tsuyoshi Kaijo (I don’t know how easy it would be to get the original actor (Naoya Makoto) to reprise his role for Gozyuger) but just seeing the image of the Akaranger suit inside the cockpit of Tega Sword Red would be such a poetic ending to Super Sentai’s 50 year legacy. The very first Red Ranger of Super Sentai getting to pilot the very last main Mech of Super Sentai.