January 31st 2008
Captain Planet Live-Action Movie Coming in 2009?
Picture Al Gore in tights.
Filed under: 'toons, film-tv, movies — Michael Andre d'Estries @ 11:05 am
Fire up the rumor mill, Planeteers! A recent entry to the somewhat-reliable Wikipedia info on Captain Planet (I check it everyday) says something interesting about our favorite green animated superhero.
Warner Brothers studio announced on January 18, 2008 that a live action movie is to be made and is scheduled for late 2009. The movie is currently in pre-production.
Oh. Dead. God. They can’t be serious, can they? A live-action version of the blue-skin, green-haired protector of Mother Earth and his five planeteers? For those not hip to have caught the animated series back in 1990 (which interestingly was created by media mogul Ted Turner), here’s a small summary:
Captain Planet is the combined and magnified powers of all five of the Planeteers’ rings, and stands for all that was good and environment-friendly. Upon his formation, he proclaims, “By YOUR powers combined, I am Captain Planet!” The Captain is sky-blue skinned, with a grass-green mullet and eyebrows. He wears red shorts, a half-shirt and gauntlets with matching red knee-high boots. His body is composed mainly of a crystal compound.
Can you imagine trying to pitch that role to a leading Hollywood actor? Who wouldn’t get in line early? We’ll keep you updated on all the latest as we get it. Screw M. Night’s The Happening. This is the real environmental film that’s going to kick some serious ass.
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Please god no!
I think the correct response is “Please god yes!” I can’t wait until 2009!
I hope he takes pollution down to zero!
I don’t think you understand the level of joy I feel right now. Here’s what Captain Planet has to say:
THE POWER IS YOURS (echo) yours, yours, yours!
Take a look at imdb.com for Captain Planet. No info on a movie, but it is interesting to see who lent their voices to the animated series. There are some big names… even Ed Begley Jr.! I vote for him to be Captain Planet in the film adaptation!
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Haha, I think Ben Stiller should be captain planet, it would just be too good.
Only man who can play Captain Planet is The Hoff (and I don’t even like the guy… but he IS Captain Planet)
Wow!!! If this is true I’m totally excited. I loved Captain Planet. This is GREAT news.
I BELIEVE THIS IS GONNA BE F**KN AWESOME!
yay! im so excited i wudnt miss it for the worlD!
Hi,
It’s good to hear that captain planet is my childhood hero and i like him and even his planetiers. I’ll be waithing for that movie plz plz plz let the time come hurry……..
I Have been Waiting For This!!! I cannot believe it!!! I’d been recently thinking that it would be great. Now I don’t have to Wonder! This movie is going to be BIG!!!
[...] you for raising the hopes of millions of planeteers — only to see such expectations burst. As we broke earlier last week, a little blurb found on the Wikipedia entry for Captain Planet made mention of live-action movie [...]
About time!!
Haha, I TOTALLY rocked that show back in the day
Captain Planet is going the be the late entry in the General Election. Screw off Raplh Nader! I can’t wait to see Captain Planet summoned for the first time!
oh my gosh i will be so happy if they make it!!!
i think it will be good to have a captain planet movie be cause the world loves Captain Planet in 1991
I’m so excited I think i just pissed in ma pants!
I HOPE THEY DO MAKE A LIVE-ACTION CAPTAIN PLANET MOVIE. IN FACT, I HOPE THEY START PRODUCING A NEW SERIES OF CAPTAIN PLANET AND THE PLANETEERS. THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!
hell friken yeah! omg i am soooo going to be there opening day!
that would be great. I loved the cartoons when I was younger. can`t wait to see the movie and with real actors.
please update
see ya
[...] we’ve had a lot of fun over the past few months speculating whether or not a live-action version of this cartoon will ever see the light of day. We remain steadfast that something is/was in the works — [...]
Al Gore needs to totally play Captain Planet. just watch hin run around in blue paint and tights screaming “THE POWER IS YOURS!!!!” Dude, even if the movie sucked completely, I would still come four or five times to just see that.
VOTE FOR AL GORE……AGAIN!!!!!
They’re remaking every other 80s and 90s cartoon they can think of (Speed Racer, Transformers, Alvin & the Chipmunks, etc.) so Captain Planet is the next logical choice. And to The Avengers, Al Gore as Captain Planet would be HILARIOUS!
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A successful movie requires the actors to suit the roles of the characters… Therefore, I believe that many fans of Captain Planet would disapprove of the above stated cast.
My friend and I spent alot of time working on this cast. And we worked on not only finding actors that resemble the charaters, we also selected actors that we think would have a positive affect on the movie and suit the roles given.
Our Cast:
Captain Planet - Cameron Mathison
Wheeler – Freddy Prince Junior
Linka - Hayden Panettiere
Kwame - Robert Richard
Gi - Ziyi Zhang
Ma-Ti - Gael García Bernal
Gaia – Vanessa Williams
Hoggish Greedley - Robbie Coltrane or Larry Joe Campbell
Looten Plunder - Johnny Depp
Sly Sludge – Danny Devito
Duke Nukem - Michael Chiklis
Verminous Skumm - Ioan Gruffudd
Dr Blight – Cameron Diaz
Zarm - Ian Mckellen
As long as they don’t get Shia LaBeouf to play Wheeler, I’ll be happy.
Some Random, that’s a great casting list you’ve put together. Especially the villians. I can certainly see Cameron Diaz as Dr. Blight and Ian McKellen as Zarm. McKellen can do menacing like he did Magneto for the X-Men.
My only concern is that so far these new live-action films like Alvin & the Chipmunks and Speed Racer didn’t do justice to the original material and were flops. I’d hate to see the same thing happen again because “Captain Planet” doesn’t have to become another cheesy event. With a good script-writer it could be a kick@ss film.
What on earth happened to the good times? I miss Captain Planet as much as Ghostwriter…
In cant wait I have wanted captain planet out on dvd region 2 for years. I would love a live action movie! the cap could be CG or a live actor, with his colouring probally CG
this has just made my night
I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS TRAVESTY.
They are trying to ruin my Childhood hero! Bastards!
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Liam Neeson should be Captain Planet.
It would be way too cool.
CAPTAIN!!!!!! PLAAAAANNNEETTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This could work..if they did a whole post apocalyptic and dark version of the concept, it could be really bad ass.
Three words: Richard Dean Anderson.
Warner Brothers would be terrible for making a Captain Planet movie, Captain Planet isn’t even one of WB’s original annimated series.DC is the only thing that WB should fuck with as far as adaptating anything is their own DC media fictional characters. They would just try to make CP another Superman which would be shitty. The best WB would have to put on the table as far as head of the production is The Wachowski Brothers, but they would try to make CP look like another Neo and another Matrix type of maovie,again NO NO NO. If you saw Speed Racer then you know you don’t want the Wachowskis writting and directing this movie. WB should stay far away from stuff that is not their own animated series! After Speed Racer I would not want them to touch anything that is not theirs originally. WB would also try to relate CP to The Dark Knight and Watchmen, if not saying their bad movies but I dont want the ridiculuosness of them trying to fit those fort of vibes into a Captain Planet movie. Universal Pictures should be the company to distribute CP to a film. The Hulk and Hellboy where great films from Universal, thats probably the best Action/Sci-Fi film company today and to the future! So WB can move along. the real shame about this movie is Ted Turner probably would’nt have anything to do with it. He’s the creater and the creator of an anime has to be apart of a project when it crosses into live-action thats the only way to make sure the adaptation would be A OK! The original Captain Planet script that was written by Michael Reaves was perfect ” The script was darker than the series, and set in a post-apocalyptic time period. The script was met with acceptance, but “got lost in the shuffle when Turner and Warner Bros. merged”. If that was made into a movie it would have been perfect! I would hope that Michael Reaves would get involved with the project if it got into production. As for the most important thing of all (Who should play Captain Planet?) Well I say eather Ray Park or Scott Adkins; which one would ya’ll rather perfer