powerpuff – Moe Lane

Craig McCracken explains why the live-action Powerpuff Girls show crashed and burned.

I read the headline, and I snorted and said, “Because the idea itself sucked.” As I have done in the past, particularly when they canceled the show after that apparently disastrous pilot. Then I clicked through, and saw that Craig McCracken said… the idea itself sucked:

“I had one meeting with them and I told them, ‘When you turn them into adults, they’re no longer the Powerpuff Girls because if they’re adults, that’s just three super girls who didn’t have to deal with being kids. That’s a completely different show.”

POWERPUFF live reboot to be repiloted.

Not gonna lie, I’m not really fully up to speed on the lingo. But it certainly sounds like somebody took a look at the POWERPUFF pilot and said “This sucks:”

Powerpuff, based on the original Cartoon Network animated series, will be reworked and repiloted off-cycle. The four leads — Chloe Bennet, Dove Cameron, Yana Perrault and Donald Faison — as well as other cast and the writers-producers all remain on board the project, from Warner Bros TV/Berlanti Prods.