“The Powerpuff Girls” could fly again soon. Variation has learned that a live-action version of the classic Cartoon Network series is in development at The CW.
In the updated version of the series, the titular superheroes are now satisfied with twenty-two things that hold them back because they lost their childhood to fighting crime. Will they agree to reunite that the world needs them more than ever?
The project comes from writers and executive producers Heather Regnier and Diablo Cody. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and David Madden will be performing products through Berlanti Productions. Warner Bros. Television will produce.
The original “Powerpuff Girls” was created by Craig McCracken. In that series, Professor Utonium accidentally created the elementary school super team at the age of Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup by combining sugar, spice, and everything fun with the mysterious Chemical X. The show ran six seasons and 78 episodes. between 1998 and 2005. “The Powerpuff Girls Movie” was released in 2002, while an animated series re-launched in 2016 in Cartoon Network.
If the show goes to series, it would check multiple boxes for The CW. The network and Berlanti have built up a large swath of programmed superheroes across the DC Universe, while also emphasizing representation for people of color and women on screen. The CW has also found great success in programming more re-adult themes of favorite IP, such as what they did with the Archie Comics franchise and “Riverdale,” another Berlanti production.
Regnier is currently under a general deal with Warner Bros. Television. Her previous credits include the recent “Veronica Mars” retaliation, “SMILF,” “iZombie,” “Falling Skies,” and “Sleepy Hollow.”
She is raped by UTA and Hansen Jacobson.
Cody is best known for writing the critically acclaimed comedy feature “Juno,” for which she won the Academy Award for Best Original Play in 2008. Her other films include “Jennifer’s Body” and “Young Adult.” She also co-produced the Amazon comedy series “One Mississippi” alongside Tig Notaro and Showtime’s “United States of Tara” with Toni Collette.
She is reprized by WME, MXN, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
