That’s my biggest issue with them too. Yeah the designs are awesome, but they look unfinished. Like someone primed the suits for painting but just stopped there.

Given the track record for the other American adaptions of Toku superheroes, they never turn out very well. They should do what they did with Godzilla 2014 and do their own original thing instead doing the Power Rangers treatment. It can show that Kamen Rider is not some cheesy Power Rangers rip off to them.

We have potential suits that aren't goofy already though not to mention dark themes?

Honestly I'd love to see a kamen rider movie based on ichigo/Takashi Hongo, made for the U.S. My personal idea for it was set in Japan during the 70s and just run with that, reference the shifting culture of the time, have the music be 70s synth, funk, and rock, etc. Then the idea from there was by the end of the film have Hongo at his lowest because he feels truly alone then in the next movies build him up by introducing his supporting cast, and showing that despite the lonely and burden a kamen rider must carry that there are people there to carry it with them.

Edit: That or we just give Shin to Guillermo Del Toro and just let him go nuts.

alright, alright....I'll look for a copy of Dragon Knight. hahahaha

Switchblade I agree about the monochrome look of the Orphenochs but that's also part of what I liked about them, it was different.

And they all generally had a 'mean' look to them. There really wasn't anything fun or campy about their looks, they looked mean and sort of Alien. (the Alien from the Aliens movies is also sort of 'one color',) they didn't look like typical Kamen Rider colorful monsters.

Oh fuck just give the entire franchise to Del Toro lol. I'm game

My theory on why that is a thing is because they wanted to give a very ash/dust-like quality/aesthetic to them. We gotta remember, orphenochs are people who became reanimated beings and cheated death so giving them a mute and dull color palette makes sense in that context. And we all know what happens if you are not orphenoch material in Faiz. poof.

Based on your pitch I say we remake the first show, then we go V3 and then skip to the 80s and go BLACK.

Makes sense, so
early 70s: Hongo
Mid 70s Hongo and Hayato
Late 70s Shiro

Also still not a hundred percent sure how to handle Hayato, for Shiro I want him to start by having scavenged parts for assorted shocker monster battles and basically having assembled a suit out of scraps for him to fight for his revenge then to get the upgrade mid film.

Also another idea was have various other isinimori heroes be running around other countries.

Who are your top 10 themes for the next 10 riders after W-Build? I wish dinosaurs be the first theme.