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The CW has added Donald Faison to the cast of its upcominglive-actionPowerpuff Girlspilot, PEOPLE confirms.
Faison, 46, will play Professor Drake Utonium — the creator and father of the three pint-sized superheroes — for the series, now simply titledPowerpuff.
Professor Utonium is described as “quirky, debonair and a pinch narcissistic.”
Utonium is a “scientific genius who is immensely proud of the three extraordinary girls he created in his lab.” At the start of the new pilot, he will be “staring down a midlife crisis” and “is determined to repair his relationships with his now-adult daughters.”
Faisonposted about the newson Instagram Tuesday with a photo of himself alongside a shot of the animated Professor Utonium from the original series.
“I tried so hard not to FLEX but I can’t help it,” he wrote. “I’m so excited!#powerpuffgirls”
“Will they agree to reunite now that the world needs them more than ever?” the logline asks.
Yana Perrault, Chloe Bennet and Dove Cameron.Daniel Zuchnik/Getty; Dominik Magdziak/Getty; Amanda Edwards/Getty
It was previously announced thatChloe Bennet(Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.),Dove Cameron(Descendants) and Yana Perrault (Jagged Little Pillmusical) have been cast as the titular former superheroes in pilot, based on the Cartoon Network series.
Bennet has been cast as Blossom Utonium, Cameron will play Bubbles Utonium, and Perrault rounds out the group as Buttercup Utonium.
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Buttercup, Blossom, Bubbles in Cartoon Network’s ‘Powerpuff Girls’.Everett Collection
The Powerpuff Girls Moviewas released in 2002.
The series was later rebooted in 2016 and ended after a third season on June 16, 2019. The reboot starred Amanda Leighton, Kristen Li and Natalie Palamides.
The reboot told a different perspective than the original as it showed the lives of the sisters when they weren’t fighting crime.
source: people.com
