“Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice”…The
ingredients to create the perfect little girls plus an accidental addition of Chemical
X created one of the most iconic new animated series and characters in Cartoon
Network during the 1990s: The Powerpuff Girls. From its original 1998-2005 series
run, to a 2002 movie, to a 2006-07 anime adaptation, and a short-lived 2016-19
reboot, the kindergartener super-heroines of Townsville have established a
solid following. When The CW announced a pilot for a live-action broad-strokes
distant sequel premiering 2021, fandom greeted the news with cautious interest.
One question was in mind: who will portray the girls?
Entertainment Weekly reports that The CW has cast three actresses
who have been making waves in 2010s TV to be the grown-up Powerpuff Girls of
their live-action series. It is being developed by Diablo Cody of “Jennifer’s
Body” (2009) fame, who is also executive producer along with The CW superhero
series show-runner Greg Berlanti. Two veterans of “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD”
on ABC, Chloe Bennet and Dove Cameron, are joined by Yana Perrault, from the “Jagged
Little Pill” rock musical by Cody and Alanis Morissette. They are cast as the
titular Powerpuff Girls, now in their twenties and in different places from
their super-heroic childhood.
Bennet, famed as “SHIELD” Agent
Daisy “Quake” Johnson, is going to be Blossom Utonium, erstwhile leader of the
Powerpuffs. Now a private person with anxiety issues, she is a far cry from the
“perfect child” she was in her youth, and desires to take up leadership again
but for her own sake. Cameron (voice of Gwen Stacy/Ghost-Spider in “Ultimate
Spider-Man” and “Marvel Rising”) will portray Bubbles, the cute one of the team
who retains some celebrity in adulthood. While outwardly sweet, she also has a
hidden tough and mean side. Perrault is cast as Buttercup, the former bad-ass
Powerpuff who was more sensitive than people think, and the most-distanced from
her past, living in anonymity.
Although all three are living
their own lives, the call to be heroes arises once more with the emergence of
new threats and evils to confront and vanquish. Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup
must team up anew to face these problems. Each has their own reasons to return
and their own expectations on what their reunion will bring for themselves; but
as they try to fight crime and save the world again, maybe their individual
wants could change to something more?
A pilot for “The Powerpuff Girls”
is due to come to The CW sometime this year. Original cartoon creator Craig
McCracken is not involved in the production, but has expressed his support for
Berlanti, and curiosity on what the creative team came come up with.
Image courtesy of Deadline
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