Amit Bhaumik’s Original Power Rangers Samurai Proposal

In 2010, Saban Brands purchased back the rights of the Power Rangers franchise from Disney, signaling a rebirth of the franchise right as it began to approach it's 20th anniversary. The returning executive producer of many seasons of the franchise, Jonathan Tzachor, reached out to former Power Rangers scribe Amit Bhaumik (writer of the fan-favorite "Forever Red" anniversary episode of Power Rangers Wild Force) to help adapt the Japanese series Samurai Sentai Shinkenger to Power Rangers Samurai.

Working for free and as a favor, Amit wrote character biographies and a base storyline for the series and how it could be adapted. Citing "creative differences" and a "different plan or lack thereof", we got the Power Rangers Samurai series that we know today - one that kids loved and older fans seemed to dislike.

We see a return to Power Rangers lore with the action happening in Stone Canyon, the rival city and school to Angel Grove, where the original Power Rangers hailed from.

There are some similarities though - Bulk is listed as a character, though instead of being totally inept and dim, he not only knows of Power Rangers but works FOR the Power Rangers - and "Spike" appeared as "Junior", the son of Bulk, not Skull. And on top of that, "Junior" would create the Gold Samurai Ranger powers and be the traditional "shows up to save the day" 6th Ranger until his identity is revealed.

It's an interesting read and we invite you to take a look at Amit's blog.

Click here to read Amit Bhaumik's original proposal for "Power Rangers Samurai"!

Many cite that the downfall of Power Rangers could eventually happen because of Jonathan Tzachor - it has been whispered among various circles that the marketing department had to step in for Power Rangers Super Megaforce to have an anniversary episode, as Tzachor had no plans for one, hence the "last minute" invites and the fact that it shoves 10 previous Rangers in to one 22 minute episode.

What do you think of this proposal? As an older fan would you have enjoyed this more, or is this just "fanfiction" in your eyes, and wouldn't make for a good show? Chime in and give us your thoughts!!

That Bulk's son being a Power ranger idea sounds like it could have been pretty cool.

I like that they actually explained them being part Japanese, rather then having them be inconspicuously un-Asian (except Mia, but even then...) and yet all having Japanese heritage.
But a lot of it sounds unlikely. Changing the Yamato Ship into a castle would mean every single scene with the bad-guys would be re-shot, but Dayu giving the monsters their second life is sort of interesting. Having one of the main characters be a sealed Master Xandred is a neat idea too.

To be honest, it does sound a lot better then Samurai and not an extremely watereddown Shinkenger like it was, but instead it's own thing, but it also sounds a lot more costly, which we know Saban hates.

Now that Samurai I would've loved to watch. That Samurai isn't a lazy peice of direct-adaptation garbage.

Wtf.

That actually sounds like it had potential as a series.
Oh well. What ifs and all that...

the Power Rangers Samurai that could have been.

I had expected it to be fanfiction-y and unrealistic, but that actually read like a practical, and interesting approach to the adaptation. Get some of the best parts and yet keep it different enough to BE Power Rangers. I loved it and I think if this was what we got, it would have been a whole lot better.

Since the premiere of Samurai, I ALWAYS thought Spike should have ended up being the Gold Ranger.. Im happy to know i wasnt alone in the idea

Shame. Could have been great.

Yeah... Why didn't we get this?

I literally can't concentrate on a full episode of samurai. It's so bad.

I guess the choices they made were done for a reason, but I'd have enjoyed a series like this