The famous cartoon Powerpuff Girls, which was said to have a reboot, has been put on pause to be reworked in the offseason.
Reports revealed that the live-action reboot of the animated show was declared “a miss” by CW CEO Mark Pedowitz. 0000Talking to international media, he gave details of why the pilot is starting from scratch after the initial results proved to be underwhelming.
“Sometimes things miss, and this was just a miss. We believe in the cast completely, we believe in Diablo [Cody] and Heather [Regnier], the writers, and we believe in the auspices of [executive producer] Greg Berlanti and Warner [Bros] Studios,” he said.
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“In this case, the pilot didn’t work. But because we see enough elements in there, we’re going to give it another shot. We didn’t want to go forward with what we had,” he continued.
Touching upon the things that went wrong with the pilot, Pedowitz said: “Tonally, it might have felt a little too campy. It didn’t feel as rooted in reality as it might have. But again, you learn things when you test things out. And in this case, we felt like, ‘Let’s take a step back and go back to the drawing board.’”
“This is a powerful property, it has engaged a lot of interest and we want to get it right before we put it out,” he added.
