Powerpuff Girls Star Gives Promising Update On Live-Action Pilot Reshoot
The live-action version of Bubbles gives some hope about the status of the Powerpuff series. The CW announced the development of the series early last year, intended to portray the iconic superheroines as older, disillusioned young women. The original series, The Powerpuff Girls, created by animator Craig McCracken, followed three children with superpowers who frequently saved the city of Townsville from monsters and other disasters.
Since its announcement, the series has hit numerous roadblocks. The first was that the network rejected the pilot episode, though it never revealed the full scope of that reasoning. Next, the show had initially cast Chloe Bennet (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) as Blossom, Dove Cameron (Descendants) as Bubbles, and Yana Perrault as Buttercup, but later lost Bennet due to scheduling conflicts after the rejection delayed production. Additionally, Donald Faison played Professor Drake Utonium in the pilot, but his role in the ongoing production is unknown. Despite everything, filming has supposedly been going along steadily, but there haven't been many tangible updates for some time.
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Cameron recently told ComicBook that the showrunners and producers are "very, very, very pleased" with where Powerpuff currently stands. Though she couldn't delve into any meaningful details given the franchise's popularity and the possibility of spoilers or misinterpretation, Cameron did make a point of saying that the creative team wants to get the show right. She even compares the rejected pilot to Game of Thrones, which also scrapped and revised its pilot before premiering. Read the full quote below:
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