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Producers Don Murphy and Susan Montford, who are coming off Transformers: Dark of the Moon and the upcoming Shawn Levy-directed Hugh Jackman-starrer Real Steel, have signed a deal with Cartoon Network to develop a live-action adventure theatrical feature based on Captain Planet. He’s the animated Ted Turner-created environment-saving hero who was first introduced in the cartoon series Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Murphy and Montford will develop the film under their Angry Films banner. “We are extremely excited about bringing the good captain back to life,” said Murphy, who added the intention is to make a series of films. “[The Captain's] adventures are known worldwide and he is recognized across generations.” The news follows last month’s announcement of a similar Cartoon Network deal with producer Joel Silver for a movie based on the Ben 10 animated series.
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Second Worst Ted Turner experiment gets a movie? Is colorization going to make a comeback next?
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Galvatron=======they should of had Optimus blast him up to outer space when he killed him in the 3rd one, obviously you know where I’m going with this——so he could be turn into Galvatron. I can’t see a 4th movie without a main Villain—Scourge could come to earth and get his spark or something — Jumping here that’s what I do. Like without PETER CULLEN’s Voice, I never would of gave Transformers a shot—-I love the cartoon and movie but I wouldn’t of gotten past the Voice (EVERY TIME PRIME would of spoke would of reminded me, this isn’t PRIME. They better get Peter to just say all sorts of lines so they can use them when he is Dead.knock on wood.
So in Closing–Scourge has to be in it just to get the ball running……………….and then they can take it whatever way–or hell bring Galvatron alive at the end of the 4th one.
Can we get Al Gore in a cameo?
Finally! I hope they cast Al Gore as the title role.
Captain Planet is fondly remembered by the 18-28 Generation. This could easily be the next TRANSFORMERS. Do it like a Roland Emmerich film. Watch the Box Office flow.
You’re kidding, right? Yes it’s nostalgic, but the show hardly has a fervent following. What are they going to do for Captain Planet himself — CG or live action? Are they going to make it dark tonally? The villains were just anti-environmental caricatures….Hoggish Greedly (the over-consumer), Looten Plunder (the overzealous capitalist), Duke Nukem (a representation of nuclear power misuse). I’m in the 18-28 generation that you speak of and I believe turning this concept into a feature is laughable.
Ummmmm……no we don’t. The only reason why we watched Captain Planet was because nothing else was on. Captain Planet was lame. Super lame.
Captain Planet is a deus ex machina incarnate. He can do whatever he wants whenever he wants. It’s the most loosely constructed character ever. “Hey, the villain has diamond tipped saws for hands and the ability to eat planets? Yeah, Captain Planet just needs to be splashed with ocean water and he’ll win.”
I used to watch this show for hours when I was growing up. Say what you will about the premise and the ridiculous design but the show touched on topics that most children’s shows today wouldn’t dream of broaching. A great example was the episode that tackled HIV and AIDS. The young boy in the story who had the infection was voiced by Neil Patrick Harris and his mother was voiced by Elizabeth Taylor. Not easy to find a show with guts like that on children’s television nowadays.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
“Captain Planet is fondly remembered” by no one.
Yeah, this was the cartoon all of us use to laugh at as kids… this better be a parody or the joke’s on Murphy.
Pollution has skyrocketed since Captain Planet first took the scene. I think he’s playing us for fools.
Excelsior!
Alright, I see the appeal of an 80s cartoon like Transformers in a live-action movie. I DO NOT see the appeal of an environmentally themed super-hero. Not if you’re making a movie for adults/teens anyways, as Transformers was. (Don’t let anyone tell you that they were for kids.)
You might get the vegan crowd, maybe, but a guy with a name like Captain Planet is just hard to take seriously.
Or, you could go the comedy route. Playing on the ridiculousness of the character as a selling point might actually work.
I don’t even think the “vegan crowd” as you put it would take it seriously. If it’s going to be developed as a blockbuster film it’s hardly going to touch on the more subtle, political or institutional sides of environmentalism.
It’s just going to be one big disappointment for everyone.
Odd choice. CP was never a popular superhero. What was his powers again and who were his enemies? You saw what happened to Green Lantern.
Captain Planet’s greatest superpower was making celebrities feel good about themselves and that makes it perfect for Hollywood.
The question is: Who has the mullet to pull off the role of Captain Planet?
I see, as usual, Don’s already commented. I like it better when he does poetry.
Is WB is gonna put this out before any of their DC heroes? Ben 10 I can understand, because it is still relevant.
There is nothing cool about this property – not the powers, the costume, the characters or the story. The fact that they don’t actually mention the details of this property says it all.
Finally, some stiff competition for “The Lorax” movie.
EARTH, FIRE, WIND, WATER, EARTH! Gooooooo Planet!
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The author has instructed those who comment on their work “and don’t bore me.” Let me give you a suggestion then: Don’t go to this movie if you don’t want to be bored.
My opinion of Captain Planet, aside from being a very substandard bit of animation (Tom and Jerry by comparison was more fleshed out), is that its nothing more than a platform for the sort of New Age beliefs espoused in the more “enlightened” circles that consider traditional values such as those represented by Christianity and the Judeo-Christian ideology either archaic or otherwise out of sync with their goals.
Looking at the IMDB link for Captain Planet, we read:
Gaia, voiced by Whoopi Goldberg in the original series, is a goddess character that has existed in one form or another in several religions. Such religions imbue the earth, the elements and the air itself with deified characteristics, essentially giving these deities more value than the earth itself they lived on!
Just an opinion, but if the Captain Planet franchise were intended to empower young people for what they can do to take care of the earth, they should not have to rely upon a superhero they call up using magic rings to get their bacon out of the fire when they throw themselves willy-nilly into it! I’m just sayin’…
CARTOON network is doing a LIVE-ACTION reboot of CAPTAIN PLANET (originally an ANIMATED show)…how many contradictions can you have in one announcement?
You guys are nuts. Captain Planet is comedic gold. My friends and I started a script for a Captain Planet movie ten years ago…I wonder if these guys will hire us?
If they’re really going through with this can they at least cast Mati from thatguywiththeglasses.com
The Biker Mice From Mars would make a much better movie, and at least you can make it funny.
America’s apathy toward climate change is the driving force for this film.
Pls make it a parody!
It was unintentionally funny then, 20 years later, it’s a hoot!
Fuck yeahhhh! You guys, he’s going to bring pollution down to zero!
Come on, y’all. I’m a giant blue guy with green hair and absolutely no backstory with a troubled childhood. What’s not to love?