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The head of the CW no longer wants the Powerpuff girls’ recipe to include sugar, spice, and everything nice. It needs to include grit, reality, and an edgier side of Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup Utonium dammit. CEO Mark Pedowitz announced that
The Powerpuff Girls reboot is on pause as they reshoot the pilot. Pedowitz says the first version is “too campy,” and “just a miss.” That’s right, it looks like there will be
no fun in the reboot of the Cartoon Network original that created the character Him and had three young girls running around fighting a villain named Mojo Jojo. The girls are twenty-somethings now, they’re jaded and traumatized.
Powerpuff Pilot Being Redeveloped at The CW
Powerpuff, the live-action reboot of the beloved animated Powerpuff Girls, is being redeveloped at the network. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The CW will shoot a new pilot for the show later this year. Series stars Chloe Bennet, Dove Cameron, and Yana Perrault are expected to return in the roles of Bubbles Utonium, Blossom Utonium, and Buttercup Utonium respectively, as is Donald Faison will also star as Professor Drake Utonium. The original pilot also starred Nicholas Podany as Jojo Mondel, and Robyn Lively as Sara Bellum.
Set photos leaked online last month featured Bennet, Cameron, and Perrault in costumes resembling what the characters wore in the animated series, costumes that are part of flashback scenes dealing with the Powerpuff Girls teen years. The series itself will follow Blossom, Bubbles, and Bubblegum as adults dealing with having spent their youth fighting crime. When the pilot for the series was ordered, it was d