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The CW orders pilot for live-action Powerpuff Girls sequel series
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Six months after word first broke of its development and coming on
the heels of the network giving a straight-to-series order to a
reboot of The 4400, The CW has greenlit a pilot for The Powerpuff
Girls live-action sequel series, according to The Hollywood
Reporter.
The new series, which is being developed by writers and executive
producers Heather Regnier (iZombie) and Diablo Cody (Jennifer's
Body), will see the titular trio as disillusioned
twentysomethings who resent having spent their entire childhood
fighting crime and struggling to reunite as the world needs them
more than ever.
Alongside Regnier and Cody, the project will be executive
produced by Greg Berlanti (Arrowverse), Sarah Schechter and
David Madden via Berlanti Productions with Warner Bros.
Television set to produce the project. Regnier is attached to the
studio via an overall deal, with previous credits for WBTV
including Falling Skies, iZombie and the Veronica Mars revival at
Hulu, as well as working on Showtime's SMILF and Fox's Sleepy
Hollow.
The Powerpuff Girls was created by Craig McCracken and debuted in
1998, centering on Professor Utonium as, in an attempt to create
the perfect little girl, ends up creating the titular trio
Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup from the combination of sugar,
spice, everything nice and the mysterious Chemical X. The series
received rave reviews over the course of its six-season run and
was broken up with a theatrical movie in 2002, which was a modest
critical and commercial success.
Cartoon Network rebooted the series in 2016 without the
involvement of McCracken or the original voice cast and received
generally mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike and some
controversy for the mishandling of transgender themes in an
episode in the first season.
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The CW orders pilot for live-action Powerpuff Girls sequel series
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Six months after word first broke of its development and coming on
the heels of the network giving a straight-to-series order to a
reboot of The 4400, The CW has greenlit a pilot for The Powerpuff
Girls live-action sequel series, according to The Hollywood
Reporter.
The new series, which is being developed by writers and executive
producers Heather Regnier (iZombie) and Diablo Cody (Jennifer's
Body), will see the titular trio as disillusioned
twentysomethings who resent having spent their entire childhood
fighting crime and struggling to reunite as the world needs them
more than ever.
Alongside Regnier and Cody, the project will be executive
produced by Greg Berlanti (Arrowverse), Sarah Schechter and
David Madden via Berlanti Productions with Warner Bros.
Television set to produce the project. Regnier is attached to the
studio via an overall deal, with previous credits for WBTV
including Falling Skies, iZombie and the Veronica Mars revival at
Hulu, as well as working on Showtime's SMILF and Fox's Sleepy
Hollow.
The Powerpuff Girls was created by Craig McCracken and debuted in
1998, centering on Professor Utonium as, in an attempt to create
the perfect little girl, ends up creating the titular trio
Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup from the combination of sugar,
spice, everything nice and the mysterious Chemical X. The series
received rave reviews over the course of its six-season run and
was broken up with a theatrical movie in 2002, which was a modest
critical and commercial success.
Cartoon Network rebooted the series in 2016 without the
involvement of McCracken or the original voice cast and received
generally mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike and some
controversy for the mishandling of transgender themes in an
episode in the first season.
<https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/1163193-the-cw-orders-pilot-for-live-action-powerpuff-girls-sequel-series>