J.J. Abrams has offered a new update on the long-in-limbo Portal movie, adapting the beloved Valve/Half-Life puzzle game for the big screen, saying a script is currently being worked on at Warner Bros.
Powerpuff Girls
When you first heard that the CW was producing a live-action series based on
The Powerpuff Girls as young adults angry about their time as superheroes, how good did you think it was going to be? Did you say “not at all?” If you did, the CW apparently agreed with you.
In addition, the network has decided to rework its pilot for “Powerpuff,” a live-action followup to the animated series “The Powerpuff Girls.” The show’s four leads Chloe Bennet, Dove Cameron, Yana Perrault, and Donald Faison remain attached to the project, as does the remainder of the cast and the creative team behind the show. The network will film a new pilot for the series off-cycle. The show generated significant interest from the time it was first reported as being in development and was seen as a strong contender for a pickup going into pilot season.
Following the news that The CW has decided to rework the Powerpuff pilot, the script for the current interpretation has reportedly leaked online, and it's. certainly something. Take a look.
Then came the part that kept
Powerpuff trending longer than anyone on the production side would ve wanted. Several pages of what is reportedly the script from the pilot leaked online- and to say that the response was not positive would be a righteous understatement. Amid all of that, The CW s
Mark Pedowitz expanded further on the network s call for the pilot to go back to the drawing boards. The reason we do pilots is sometimes things miss, this was just a miss, Pedowitz explained during Tuesday s network Upfronts call. We believe in the cast completely, we believe in Diablo and Heather, the writers… in this case, the pilot didn t work. Revealing that the original pilot might ve felt a little too campy, Pedowitz stressed that the pilot needs to be deserving of its source material when it comes to quality- so getting it right matters. You learn things and you test things out. In this case, we felt let s take a step back and go back to the drawing board because this is a