The jury’s nonetheless out on whether or not the world needs or wants a live-action model of Craig McCracken’s beloved Cartoon Network sequence The Powerpuff Girls—particularly one which casts the li’l superheroes as resentful twentysomethings. But when and if the CW pilot for Powerpuff makes it to the airwaves, it’ll be with out one of many largest names in its beforehand introduced solid: Agents of SHIELD’s Chloe Bennet, who has left the present.

And since we all know you’re questioning, the rationale given was that outdated standby of vagueness: “scheduling conflicts,” according to Variety, which broke the information. The commerce additionally reminds us that the preliminary Powerpuff pilot (directed by Maggie Kiley, co-written by Heather Regnier and Diablo Cody) had been delayed after the CW determined it wanted an entire do-over. “The reason you do pilots is because sometimes things miss, and this was just a miss,” CW chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz advised told Variety back in May whereas stressing the community nonetheless believed within the challenge. “Tonally, it might’ve felt a little too campy. It didn’t feel as rooted in reality as it might’ve felt. But again, you learn things when you test things out. And so in this case, we felt, let’s take a step back and go back to the drawing board.”

Though Warner Bros. hoped to maintain Bennet within the solid, the timing didn’t work out, so the function of Blossom will probably be recast. Still aboard Powerpuff because it strikes forward in its latest incarnation are Dove Cameron (as Bubbles) and Yana Perrault (Buttercup); Variety notes that the opposite beforehand introduced stars (Donald Faison, Nicholas Podany, Robyn Lively) are in “currently ongoing” talks to maintain them as a part of the present.

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