Dwell-action diversifications of beloved animated reveals have gotten one other sizzling commodity, following the success of reveals like Netflix’s Avatar: The Final Airbender and Cowboy Bebop (regardless of combined evaluations, each reveals pulled in severe viewing figures). The CW was additionally seeking to capitalize on that recognition with a live-action adaptation of Cartoon Community’s beloved The Powerpuff Women. Nevertheless, any makes an attempt at reworking sugar, spice, and every thing good into live-action had been halted in 2023 when the present was formally canceled. Two years later, a trailer for the CW’s canceled Powerpuff Women present has leaked on-line…and it is most likely an excellent factor it was axed.
The brand new trailer, which involves us by way of a put up on Reddit, reveals the drastic modifications made to the unique present within the CW’s model. The brand new sequence deliberate to age-up Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles into younger adults who give up being superheroes after by accident killing Mojo (the monkey villain Mojo Jojo was cut up into two individuals within the new present, every sharing half of the rhyming title). Blossom ran away, Buttercup grew to become a firefighter, and Bubbles grew to become an alcoholic who labored on Hollywood Boulevard. Yup.
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CW’s Powerpuff Women starred Chloe Bennett as Blossom, Dove Cameron as Bubbles, and Yana Perrault as Buttercup. The brand new sequence would have featured one similarity to the beloved authentic present, with Tom Kenny reprising his function because the narrator. The trailer seems to chop collectively footage from the whole thing of the canceled present to disclose what followers would have watched, because it feels extra like a shortened abstract than an precise trailer.
Why Was CW’s ‘Powerpuff Women’ Canceled?
The trailer for The CW’s Powerpuff Women adaptation being leaked feels extremely random, particularly because the sequence has been introduced as formally useless for 2 years. Not solely was the present canceled, however The CW additionally vacated the rights to the Powerpuff Women IP, giving different studios the possibility to buy them and adapt the present into one thing totally different (and hopefully significantly better).
Just a few months after the sequence was canceled, Craig McCracken, who created the unique animated sequence, opened up in regards to the growth of CW’s live-action present. Whereas we have needed to wait two years to see why the live-action sequence would not work, McCracken knew from the beginning that CW’s wild idea was a misfire. He stated:
“I had one assembly with them and I instructed them, ‘If you flip them into adults, they’re now not the Powerpuff Women as a result of in the event that they’re adults, that’s simply three tremendous ladies who don’t must take care of being youngsters.’ That’s a totally totally different present.”
That sentiment was supported by former CW President of Leisure, Mark Pedowitz, who commented on the live-action sequence’ failure shortly after its cancelation. “Generally issues miss, and this was only a miss,” was their sincere response to the present’s dying. “Tonally, it may need felt a bit of too campy. It didn’t really feel as rooted in actuality because it may need. However once more, you be taught issues once you check issues out. And on this case, we felt like, ‘Let’s take a step again and return to the drafting board.’”
Supply: Reddit
Powerpuff Women
- Launch Date
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November 18, 1998
- Community
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Cartoon Community
- Showrunner
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Craig McCracken
