The Wild Trailer for the CW’s Powerpuff Ladies Reboot Has Leaked On-line

Do you recall when the CW introduced its plans for a live-action Powerpuff Girls collection in 2021? In case your reply is not any, it’s comprehensible on condition that the tender reboot collection’ pilot was reworked, one of many main actresses left the project, and the present was ultimately canceled in 2023. Regardless of the tumult surrounding the present’s cancellation, a trailer leaked online, providing the world a glimpse of what may need been.

Right this moment, Misplaced Media Busters, a YouTube channel whose complete deal is uncovering misplaced and unreleased media, uploaded a video of the CW’s Powerpuff Ladies. (Simply as this publish was being revealed, the clip was eliminated, with a notice that Warner Bros. had blocked it “on copyright grounds.) The collection would’ve starred Agents of SHIELD‘s Chloe Bennet as Blossom, Descendants‘ Dove Cameron as Bubbles, and singer Yana Perrault as Buttercup. Becoming a member of them would’ve been Scrubs‘ Donald Faison as Professor Utonium, Robyn Energetic as Sara Bellum, and Nicholas Podany as Joseph “Jojo” Mondel Jr. (aka Mojo Jojo’s son).

The three-and-a-half-minute trailer, narrated by Tom Kenny, follows the titular ladies because the 20-somethings principally develop up as Disney Adults; Bubbles has a consuming drawback whereas the remainder insurgent in their very own methods towards their cookie-cutter heroic pictures in Townsville. Someplace down the road the women mess up and Mojo Jojo lastly kicks the bucket. Within the fallout of regardless of the ladies did to price Mojo Jojo his life, Blossom runs away from dwelling, Jojo’s son turns into the foremost, Buttercup turns into a firefighter, and Bubbles form of coasts by as a failed influencer.

When the women reunite seven years after killing Mojo Jojo (it’s actually unclear whether or not they’re really accountable or not), they’re compelled to affix forces as soon as extra when Jojo’s son seeks patricidal revenge by machinating a plan to finish the professor’s life. The plan entails manipulating the minds of Townsville’s denizens, inflicting the professor to steer them into uncontrollable riots. The tip of the trailer teases that the women would have spent the remainder of the collection making an attempt to clear their father’s title, uncover who set him up, and save the day.

Whether or not the video has been copyright claimed and scrubbed from the web by the point you’re studying this, it ought to be talked about that the Powerpuff Ladies stay motion present definitely appears like… effectively, a CW present, with a loads of awkward actor blocking and shoddy CGI that YouTubers like Rocket Bounce might’ve achieved a greater job actualizing. However that isn’t to say that the present didn’t have any defining traits that might’ve made it value a pity watch.

Key amongst them is its assortment of millennial-branded humor often hitting the mark, equivalent to Bubbles being “right down to clown” with the Juggalos of the Insane Clown Posse, Jojo Jr. having an intense dislike for Blossom, and Buttercup not supporting Townsville. Having typed all that out and rewatched the trailer, the above is definitely grounds for cancellation. Nonetheless, it most likely would’ve gotten eaten up by viewers on the leisure worth of hate-watching it.

Previous to Bennet’s departure from the present, CW Chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz advised Variety the community nonetheless had religion within the undertaking and was contemplating reshoots as a result of its preliminary pilot “felt slightly too campy.”

“It didn’t really feel as rooted in actuality as it’d’ve felt. However once more, you be taught issues whenever you check issues out. And on this case, we felt, let’s take a step again and return to the drafting board,” Pedowitz stated.

Not like most reveals and movies that are completed but never see the light of day, we had been lucky to glimpse what the CW’s Powerpuff Ladies present may need seemed like. Nonetheless, it’s definitely intriguing to think about what the present might have been like if that they had not supposed it to be as campy because the leaked trailer recommended.

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