Who had a gritty reboot of Powerpuff Girls on their 2020 bingo card?
A live-action series based on the classic Cartoon Network show The Powerpuff Girls is in the works at The CW, Variety reported on Monday.
But Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup won't be the same superhero little girls we last saw in the original series, as Variety writes the show will pick up with them as "disillusioned 20-somethings who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting." Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind Juno, is reportedly on board as writer and executive producer.
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The Powerpuff Girls, which originally ran from 1998 to 2005, already received an animated reboot in 2016, although no one has ever attempted, or presumably even really thought about doing, a live-action reboot until this point. Should it be a success, a relentlessly bleak update of Codename: Kids Next Door with the same tone as the trailer for The Batman, or an emotional, Logan-style reboot of Dexter's Laboratory simply called Dexter, might not be far away.
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