Live-Action Powerpuff Girls’ Pilot Casts Its Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles
The Utonium Girls are all grown up now and ready for the CW.
The CW’s live-action sequel series to The Powerpuff Girls has found its stars, casting Chloe Bennet (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Dove Cameron (Descendants) and Yana Perrault (Jagged Little Pill) in the series pilot, according to Variety.
The series pilot was written by Diablo Cody and Heather Regnier and directed by Maggie Kiley and is based on the original Cartoon Network animated series. According to the show’s logline, The Powerpuff Girls will follow Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, who were once America’s pint-sized superheroes. Now they’re disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crimefighting. Will they agree to reunite now that the world needs them more than ever? The live-action series was first announced as being in development back in August.
The Powerpuff Girls was created by Craig McCracken and debuted in 1998, and centered on Professor Utonium who, in an attempt to create the perfect little girl, created the trio of Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup from the combination of sugar, spice, everything nice…and the mysterious Chemical X. The series was popular and critically-acclaimed over the course of its six-season run. A theatrical movie in 2002 was a modest commercial success.
Bennet will play Blossom, Cameron has been cast as Bubbles, and Perrault has been cast as Buttercup. The pilot reunites Bennet and Cameron to play allies, this time instead of enemies, as both previously appeared in the ABC-Marvel series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, where Bennet’s character and Cameron’s fought against each other.
According to Variety’s synopsis, Blossom holds several advanced degrees, but is suffering from repressed superhero trauma leading her to live life as an anxious recluse. She hopes to regain her role as a leader in the series. Meanwhile, Bubbles is still the same sparkling character as she was in the past, but is now interested in recapturing her fame by saving the world. And Buttercup in the series has spent most of her life living anonymously and trying to leave behind her past.
Kiley, who is helming the pilot, previously worked with The CW on episodes of Riverdale and its spin-off Katy Keene. The Powerpuff Girls is produced by Berlanti Productions and Vita Vera Films in association with Warner Bros. Television. Cody and Mars executive produce with Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, David Madden and Kiley.