The Powerpuff Girls live-action reboot gets a pilot order on The CW along with a reboot of The 4400
Giving fans some blasts from the past, the CW orders a live-action reboot of The Powerpuff Girls and a remake of The 4400.
According to Variety, the network has placed a trial order for the reboot of The Powerpuff Girls for live action and a direct-to-series order for the remake of The 4400.
The network also issued two more pilot orders, the DC Project Naomi by Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship and an unnamed religious drama by Claire Rothrock and Ryann Weir.
Live-action: The CW gives fans some blasts from the past, ordering a live-action reboot of The Powerpuff Girls and a remake of The 4400
4400: The network has issued a pilot order for The Powerpuff Girls live-action reboot and a direct-to-series order for The 4400 remake, according to Variety.
The live-action PowerPuff Girls series was first announced in development in August, although no casting has been announced yet.
The show is based on the animated series created by Craig McCracken, which aired six seasons and 78 episodes between 1998 and 2005.
This new program will portray the heroes as “disillusioned twenty-somethings who resent losing their youth to fighting crime.”
Development: The live-action PowerPuff Girls series was first announced in development in August, although no casting has been announced yet
New show: This new program features the heroes as ‘disillusioned twenty-somethings who resent losing their youth to fighting crime’
The show will follow these heroes as the world needs them more than ever as everyone wonders if they will reunite.
Heather Regnier and Diablo Cody are writing and producing the new series, while Cody is executive producing through her Vita Vera Films.
Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and David Madden serve as executive producers through Berlanti Productions, with Erika Kennair as producer.
Reunited: The show will follow these heroes as the world needs them more than ever as everyone wonders if they will reunite
The 4400 follows the 4400, “overlooked, underrated, or otherwise marginalized people who have disappeared without a trace in the past hundred years.”
One day they all returned in an instant, with no memory of what happened to them, and not aged a day.
As the government analyzes these survivors, they begin to realize that they have been returned with ‘upgrades’ just like them
Overlooked: The 4400 follows the 4400, “overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people who have disappeared without a trace in the last hundred years”
As the government rushes to analyze the potential threat and keep the narrative under control, the 4400 themselves must grapple with the fact that they have been brought back with a few upgrades, and the increasing chance that they are all now for a specific reason have been brought back.
Ariana Jackson will write and produce the series, while Anna Fricke and Laura Terry will also executive produce and produce CBS Studios.
The original series was created by René Echevarria and Scott Peterst, starring Joel Gretsch, Jacqueline McKenzie, Conchita Campbell and future Oscar winner Mahershala Ali.
Threat: As the government scrambles to analyze the potential threat and master the story, the 4400 themselves must grapple with the fact that they’ve been scaled back with a few upgrades, and with the increasing likelihood that they’re all now for a specific one. reason have been reduced.