He butts heads with Len, who serves as Kamen Rider Wing Knight, but the pair join forces after Kit learns that an alien warlord named General Xaviax is responsible for his father's disappearance and intends on using him and the entire human race, which he plans to abduct to gain power and rebuild his homeworld. While searching for his missing father, Kit Taylor finds an Advent Deck – a special card deck that allows the carrier to transform into a Kamen Rider and utilize unique weapons and powers – and uses it to become Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. This includes a release in Japan by Toei, the company which holds the rights to Kamen Rider in Japan. There appear to be no current plans to release Dragon Knight on domestic DVD within the United States itself, though it has seen international release, as detailed elsewhere in this article. To date, there have been no updates regarding the film or second adaptation, though Adness may or may not still retain the rights due to having not used them for over two years. In an interview, Steve Wang stated that they had written a story for a film, but Adness was raising money to bring over another Kamen Rider for broadcast in the US rather than a film or a second season of Dragon Knight. In the early licensing information for the series, Adness Entertainment had intended to also film a feature-length movie for Dragon Knight. It’s silly to me.' The decision was also made to distance themselves from Saban's Masked Rider, which was a commercial failure. That’s like calling Darth Vader 'Armored Sith Lord'. I’m just not a fan of using descriptions to name a character such as ‘Masked’. Wang had insisted on keeping the moniker Kamen instead, stating 'Growing up, I never watched ‘Masked Rider’… it was always KAMEN RIDER and seeing it called ‘Masked’ always felt strange.

The Wang brothers hired their long-time friend Nathan Long to help them create their adaptation in a similar vein as Power Rangers, splicing together costumed Japanese footage along with their own original footage of suits and American actors.įor foreign markets, Toei had originally marketed the series as Masked Rider until the release of Kamen Rider W. Komine brought on long-time Rider fans Steve and Michael Wang to be show-runners, who chose to adapt Ryuki due to the large number of Riders s ( Ryuki had 13 Riders in total) as well as a female Rider. In July 2006, producer Aki Komine received special permission from Toei to develop a pilot for an American adaptation of Kamen Rider, who was pleased with the results and granted them the right to adapt one installment from the franchise.

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