Cartoon Network Live-Action Art: Powerpuff Girls, Courage The Cowardly Dog, Dexter & More Are Disturbingly Accurate-TGN

Summary

• Live-action art of Cartoon Network characters like Johnny Bravo looks pretty accurate.

• Others like The Powerpuff Girls miss the mark.

• While some Cartoon Network franchises like The Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, and Ed, Edd n Eddy have the potential for successful live-action adaptations, finding the right tone and vision seem to be difficult.

Cartoon Network live-action art looks disturbingly accurate, with Dexter, the Powerpuff Girls, and more getting a makeover. The characters represent a run that viewers of different ages look back on with incredible fondness. But despite the popularity of the respective franchises and a few high-profile attempts, Cartoon Network hasn’t thrived when making the move from animation.

A recent showcase posted on the Midjourney subreddit by user StopwatchSparrow offers a glimpse into what some of Cartoon Network’s heroes would look like if they were given the live-action treatment.

Some, such as Johnny Bravo and Courage the Cowardly Dog, look inventive and spot-on. But in others, show the limits of AI-generated art as the Powerpuff Girls are missing hands and the all-important blue for Bubbles.

Cartoon Network’s Live-Action Attempts Haven’t Worked

The most recent example of a high-profile live-action failure would have to be The CW’s effort to make a teen drama, in the style of Riverdale, out of the Powerpuff Girls. The project was announced with a lot of fanfare, castings were made, and a pilot was even filmed, but the online reaction was swift and mocking with The CW even agreeing that the pilot needed retooling. Ultimately, with all the changes at The CW, The Powerpuff Girls‘ live-action project was quietly scrapped.

A more forgotten potential project occurred in 2002 when Warner Bros. had secured the rights to make a live-action Johnny Bravo feature film. Intended as a vehicle for the then-emerging star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, it quietly went away without much further news. But unlike a lot of Hollywood attempts to spin a franchise out of something popular, the live-action Cartoon Network isn’t without some merit.

While The Powerpuff Girls is a superhero saga, Johnny Bravo could, potentially, make for a nice romantic comedy with the right vision. Similar things could be said about Ed, Edd n Eddy in the pure comedy space. But figuring out the right live-action tone for Cartoon Network seems to be a bit harder than just big castings and a general outline.

Source: StopwatchSparrow