For your enjoyment
the leaked powerpiff girls script
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That's only a few pages, I saw people were sharing other pages but I can't find anywhere with the whole script
edit: wait here it is https://www.reddit.com/r/powerpuffgirls/comments/nkisfz/cws_powerpuff_full_script_of_the_rejected_pilot/
Edited by Xopher001 on May 25th 2021 at 2:18:18 AM
Minor note, but the “move on dot org” joke was reused from
Jennifer's Body, written by Diablo Cody who also wrote for this show, Because everyone really wanted to hear that joke again 12 years later.
I literally posted it last page.
The moveon.org joke probably was a chosen homage given Jenifer's Body is getting a newfound cult following these days. The type of thing designed for those crappy listicles on websites 6 REFERENCES YOU MISSED IN POWERPUFF'S PILOT and all that stuff.
Edited by NotGrantMorrison on May 25th 2021 at 3:10:14 AM
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XvH1cA_9TpFfiTKNMlEe248r42CiY76I/view
Here's a Google doc link.
Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on May 25th 2021 at 6:26:02 AM
Watch SymphogearThe most compelling evidence is the seemingly Revealing Cover-Up of tweets that posted the script are being taken down for copyright.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Jul 21st 2021 at 4:21:57 AM
Yeah, looking through the "rumored-but-likely-real" pilot script, part of me wonders if they looked at the backlash to the 2016 series and took all the wrong lessons from it, as going from a more sanitized and "kiddie" reboot/sequel/cashgrab to a more edgy and "adult" reboot/sequel/cashgrab makes me feel they thought the reasons it failed was due to the demographics or medium instead of the reboot's actual issues
Attachments are not the problem, Indifference is. Keelah se'lai
It's weird because apart from that, the plot beats weren't actually completely horrible, even though they weren't inspired either. It's like Fant4stic, where they're trying to trash the original for some reason.
The better way to do an adult retelling is one that still appeals to the original fanbase despite the heavier themes. I recall reading how Hillary Duff wanted to do a more mature sequel series to Lizzie McGuire. It was canned because Disney objected to having plots that involved sex and cheating
, but Duff made it clear her intention was to have the protagonist, once aimed at preteen viewers and facing the obstacles of that age, now be grown up like the original audience and undergoing the same challenges of adulthood as them. This reboot could've aimed for that, but instead it openly disses the cartoon and roots its own script's sex jokes in shock humor rather than anything relatable.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on May 25th 2021 at 9:42:21 AM
The base premise for this was bad to begin with so I'm not surprised the pilot was bad. Good acting and respect to the source despite the premise could have salvaged it but apparently not.
Personally if it were up to me I'd have gone with a lighter tone. Like they can question whether or not their childhood was messed up or not but I'd still embrace the original. Like them resenting their childhood doesn't fit with what the original showed us but that would've been one way to make the premise work. Pity that's not what they seem to want to do.
I second that. If they want a "dark" tone, they should aim for Doom Patrol and Umbrella Academy. For a lighter tone, I would look to Legends of Tomorrow.
Honestly the biggest clear error is killing off Mojo Jojo; him doing grim dark dialogue but in his redundant speech pattern would have me watching every week.
"I've walked in shadow my entire life... which is to say my particular existence is one defined with a lack of brightness as my time on this Earth is one filled with darkness and not light. For if you were to say that I, Mojo Jojo, am the individual who has experienced just the shade and who has not felt luminescence, you would be correct, because I Mojo Jojo, am the person that has only known blackness as opposed to glow for the period in which I have been alive."
I’m not sure what they can do with a second draft so long as the burning contempt for the source material is still there. If anything, to reduce the “campy” nature, I see Cody making the tone darker and more oppressive while keeping the plot beats about the Professor being a terrible person and the girls resenting him. If she’s already coming into this from a place of hating the source material for whatever reason, being too saccharine in her POV, not reflecting her values, then how will the second draft be any better?

Keep in mind that in writer-talk “make it more real” is less likely to mean “more realistic” as it is to mean “make the characters feel real: ie, talk/act like actual people” a which, given how bland and pop culture referency the dialogue is now, makes sense.