The Powerpuff Girls Live-Action Series Trailer Leaks, Showing What the Canceled Show Would Have Been

Back successful 2023, a live-action bid featuring the grown-up Powerpuff Girls was canceled astatine The CW pursuing a fig of reported troubles with the project. Now, a caller teaser video has surfaced online showcasing what the amusement mightiness person been like, and it's...interesting, to accidental the least.

The video was made disposable this greeting connected the YouTube transmission "Lost Media Busters" but has since been struck with a copyright takedown from Warner Bros. Entertainment. The three-and-a-half-minute trailer establishes the premise of the series: Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup person grown into young adults and near home, with Blossom (played by Chloe Bennet) becoming stressed and burnt out, Bubbles (Dove Cameron) turning to drinking, and Buttercup (Yana Perrault) becoming mostly rebellious and expressing distaste of sex norms.

Official images of the 3 Powerpuff Girls from CW's live-action effort: Dove Cameron, Chloe Bennet, and Yana Perrault.

In the trailer, the 3 inadvertently termination a quality named Mojo and fly Townsville, earlier returning location years aboriginal to sojourn their father, Professor Utonium (Donald Faison). There, they brushwood Mojo's now-adult son, Jojo, who has go politician of Townsville, brainwashed the citizenry, and is seeking revenge. The trailer is peppered with "edgy" humor, including Bubbles making a quip astir juggalos and Buttercup suggesting Jojo has a "hate-boner" for Blossom.

CW has confirmed to Variety that the footage is real, but that this peculiar trailer was not authoritative nor intended for nationalist presumption astatine immoderate point.

The live-action Powerpuff Girls amusement was first reported connected backmost successful 2020, but was canceled successful 2023 aft a fig of setbacks, including a "miss" of an archetypal pilot and the departure of Bennet from the project.

“The crushed you bash pilots is due to the fact that sometimes things miss, and this was conscionable a miss," said CW president and CEO Mark Pedowitz of the scrapped aviator astatine the time. "We judge successful the formed completely. We judge successful Diablo [Cody] and Heather [Regnier], the writers. We judge successful the auspices of Greg Berlanti and Warner studios. In this lawsuit the aviator didn’t work. But due to the fact that we spot there’s capable elements successful there, we wanted to springiness it different shot. So that’s wherefore we didn’t privation to spell guardant with what we had. Tonally, it might’ve felt a small excessively campy. It didn’t consciousness arsenic rooted successful world arsenic it might’ve felt. But again, you larn things erstwhile you trial things out. And truthful successful this case, we felt, let’s instrumentality a measurement backmost and spell backmost to the drafting board.”

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