"The Powerpuff Girls" Is Finally Getting The Gritty Live-action Series You Never Wanted
Sugar, spice, everything nice, and Zoomer ennui will be the recipe for a gritty CW reboot of The Powerpuff Girls, the hit Cartoon Network series from the early 2000s.
Variety announced yesterday that the CW is looking at a live-action reboot of the series which makes the girls 20-somethings. Fans will remember that much of The Powerpuff Girls' charm lied in the adorableness of the characters as they took on outlandish, comically inept villains like Mojo Jojo and HIM. The central question of this reboot seems to be, "What if instead of being happy and cute, the girls were older and miserable?"
"In the updated version of the series, the titular superheroes are now disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting," writes Variety.
Heather Regnier and Diablo Cody serve as executive producers. Should it air, the series will join the CW's pantheon of live-action fantasy dramas aimed at teens and young adults. In addition to its hit Riverdale adaptation, the network also airs Supergirl, The Flash and others.
News of the developing Powerpuff Girls reboot was not met with enthusiasm, as many fans felt a gritty live-action reboot completely missed the point of the original series.
Fans also imagined silly variations on what a "adult-themed" Powerpuff Girls would look like.
Share Pin
Dry Ice
robot mode:
humans cant allowed this area, please retire your plans in your world xd
Malakim
Nobody wants live-action cortoon, and they are somehow made no matter the odds.
WarLordM
To quote Owlman:
"It doesn't matter."
FutBoy
Krazy-Chibi
Dracorex
I'm old enough to remember when Bubbles was Kath Soucie and not Tara Strong.
DO NOT DO THIS WARNER BROTHERS.
HotPotato
I thought we had Charlie's Angels reboots for that.
YeetYeetAwoo
Wonder if they'll get an actual chimp to play Mojo.
Kekkles the Kek
Stop making live action versions of animated things you fucknuggets
Literally every single one of Disney's attempts has been mediocre or worse.
Gone
I think, among other things, it's all about money and cost savings. Once upon a time, it was both easier and more "convincing" to animate certain things because the technology wasn't there. But thanks to computer animation very slowly approaching realism (but still not quite out of the Uncanny Valley yet), it's cheaper and easier to just CG some things in live-action than to animate everything.
Not just a justification, of course, just a wild guess based on recent trends.
OurDeerLeader
but they make money
the normie casuals eat that shit up