Back in 2023, a live-action collection that includes the grown-up Powerpuff Girls was canceled at The CW following a lot of reported troubles with the undertaking. Now, a brand new teaser video has surfaced on-line showcasing what the present may need been like, and it is…attention-grabbing, to say the least.
The video was made obtainable this morning on the YouTube channel “Lost Media Busters” however has since been struck with a copyright takedown from Warner Bros. Entertainment. The three-and-a-half-minute trailer establishes the premise of the collection: Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup have grown into younger adults and left residence, with Blossom (performed by Chloe Bennet) turning into confused and burnt out, Bubbles (Dove Cameron) turning to ingesting, and Buttercup (Yana Perrault) turning into usually rebellious and expressing distaste of gender norms.
In the trailer, the three inadvertently kill a human named Mojo and flee Townsville, earlier than returning residence years later to go to their father, Professor Utonium (Donald Faison). There, they encounter Mojo’s now-adult son, Jojo, who has develop into mayor of Townsville, brainwashed the citizenry, and is searching for revenge. The trailer is peppered with “edgy” humor, together with Bubbles making a quip about juggalos and Buttercup suggesting Jojo has a “hate-boner” for Blossom.
CW has confirmed to Variety that the footage is actual, however that this specific trailer was not official nor supposed for public view at any level.
The live-action Powerpuff Girls present was first reported on again in 2020, however was canceled in 2023 after a lot of setbacks, together with a “miss” of an preliminary pilot and the departure of Bennet from the undertaking.
“The cause you do pilots is as a result of typically issues miss, and this was only a miss,” stated CW chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz of the scrapped pilot on the time. “We consider within the solid fully. We consider in Diablo [Cody] and Heather [Regnier], the writers. We consider within the auspices of Greg Berlanti and Warner studios. In this case the pilot didn’t work. But as a result of we see there’s sufficient parts in there, we needed to offer it one other shot. So that’s why we didn’t wish to go ahead with what we had. Tonally, it would’ve felt slightly too campy. It didn’t really feel as rooted in actuality as it would’ve felt. But once more, you study issues if you take a look at issues out. And so on this case, we felt, let’s take a step again and return to the drafting board.”
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