The CW has made a number of orders for the 2021-2022 season, including a pilot order for the live-action “Powerpuff Girls” series.
In total, The CW announced three pilot orders and one live pickup, with the latter a reload of the USA Network series ‘The 4400’. The other two pilots are for the DC project “Naomi” by Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship and an untitled religious drama by Claire Rothrock and Ryann Weir. All the projects are created by women.
The “Powerpuff Girls” series for live action was only announced in August that it is in development. Based on the Cartoon Network series created by Craig McCracken, the new series considers the pint-sized superheroes as disillusioned twenties who were outraged by losing their childhoods due to crime fighting. Will they agree to reunite now that the world needs them more than ever?
The project comes from writers and executive producers Heather Regnier and Diablo Cody, while Cody’s executive producer via Vita Vera Films. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and David Madden will deliver executive production via Berlanti Productions. Erika Kennair will produce. Warner Bros. Television will manufacture.
The animated series lasted between 1998 and 2005 for six seasons and 78 episodes. “The Powerpuff Girls Movie” was released in 2002, while a reload animated series began airing on Cartoon Network in 2016.
In ‘The 4400’, 4400 people who are overlooked, undervalued or otherwise marginalized who have disappeared without a trace in the last hundred years, are all returned in an instant, without becoming a day old and having no memory of what did not happen to them. While the government is trying to analyze the potential threat and contain the story, the 4400 itself has to contend with the fact that they have been returned with a few upgrades, and the increasing likelihood that they will all be brought back for a specific reason now.
The reload has been in development at The CW since 2018. Ariana Jackson will write and executive products, with Anna Fricke and Laura Terry also executive producers. CBS Studios will produce.
The original version of “The 4400” was created by René Echevarria and Scott Peters. It features actors such as Joel Gretsch, Jacqueline McKenzie, Conchita Campbell, and was also an early starring role for Oscar winner Mahershala Ali. It hosted four seasons and 44 deliveries in the U.S. from 2004-2007.
‘Naomi’ was announced in early December that it was in development. The show follows the journey of a teenage girl from her small northwestern town to the heights of the multiverse. When a supernatural event shakes her hometown to the deepest stage, Naomi wants to discover its origin, and what she discovers will challenge everything we believe about our heroes.
DuVernay and Blankenship are involved in the writing and executive production of “Naomi.” DuVernay will produce via ARRAY Filmworks, starring Sarah Bremner and Paul Garnes of ARRAY. Warner Bros. Television, where DuVernay has a rich general agreement, will serve as the studio.
The character Naomi originally debuted in 2019 in her own stand-alone comic book series, co-written by Brian Michael Bendis and David F. Walker. This was illustrated by Jamal Campbell. In the comics, Naomi has energy-based powers as well as an ability to transform into a superpower form that gives her incredible power and other abilities.
Finally, the Rothrock / Weird project is about two millennial nuns – a devout true believer and a newcomer who has yet to make her final vows – who start as strangers and become sisters on a funny, spiritual journey around them. understand own faith and place in the Catholic Church.
Rothrock and Weir write and executive production, with Jennie Snyder Urman and Joanna Klein executive producers via Sutton St. Productions. CBS Studios, where Sutton St. have a general agreement will serve as the studio.