Leonardo DiCaprio to produce Captain Planet Movie

[Gee]

I want Gargoyles, Dexter's Laboratory, Cowboy Bebop, and Salor Moon.

Also loved that show. The opening theme is epic!

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Man, I miss the 90's cartoons.

 

[Breogan]

Also loved that show. The opening theme is epic!

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Man, I miss the 90's cartoons.

Now all I need are live action big budget Animorphs and Digimon movies.

And amen to Animorphs, Digimon and also Pokemon. The technology and the audience is there.

Still waiting for a Carmen Sandiego movie.

pretty sure jennifer lopez is doing that movie

Now where's my live-action Magic School Bus, Hollywood?

I want Gargoyles, Dexter's Laboratory, Cowboy Bebop, and Salor Moon.

I don't know any actress that can do Ms. Frizzle (the Friz) justice.

Yes! Magic School Bus needs to happen!!! Wow lol alot of the 90's shows were incredibly diverse (Power Rangers, Captain Planet, Animorphs, Magic School Bus...etc)

Continue to 90's Thread - http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?p=34354555#post34354555

 

[Breogan]

Man looking over this shows IMDB and BTVA some of it's villains were played by some fun actors
Wonder if they could get some(able) to reprise their roles.

Ed Asner ...Hoggish Greedly

Tim Curry ... MAL

James Coburn ... Looten Plunder

Meg Ryan ... Dr. Blight

Martin Sheen ... Sly Sludge

Dean Stockwell ... Duke Nukem

Jeff Goldblum ... Verminous Skumm

Sting/Malcolm McDowell ... Zarm

Louis Gossett Jr. ... Cmdr. Clash
Hector Elizondo ... Bard
Malcolm McDowell ... Zarm

 

[Alien Anal]

I'm 25. I lived through the whole 90's minus 11 months. So I've seen the best and the worst of the 90's and I have loads of ideas and hopes for stuff from my childhood to get that big screen treatment.

As for my CP movie, I'd honour the source material for one. I'd have a corporation which acts as a front to the Eco-Villains attempt to unleash some sort of technology which greatly damages the environment all around the world and would give them profit. Preliminary trials of this technology has awoken Gaia who sees all the major environmental disasters for the past 100 years. She goes and sends the rings out. We then flash to the lives of future Planeteers who all have lives and story arcs which more or less interact with the technology mentioned. At crucial moments, they get the rings that all help them save the day in one way or another by a fluke. Gaia then summons them to give them the backstory and start their training to work as a team.

Next we cut back to the bad guys who start to implement said technology. We then go back to the team where they encounter obstacles from training be it physical or otherwise. Wheeler is like "Screw it we need to stop the technology". We then come across that jet plane they all board to go to the Atlantic Ocean where this technology is being implemented. When they get there we find that it's too late for the Planeteers and each try their rings and fail. They then try to combine their powers and release Captain Planet who then stops the tech while the Planeteers attempt to save and divert as many people and animal life as possible. The heroes win and save the day and the Evil corporation gets shut down for now. After credits scene teases Captain Pollution.

Sorry if all that sounds incoherent and all with all this rambling. I'm just thinking off the top of my head of how a good movie can come from this IP without being too preachy.

Oh ok my bad, funny though as im 29 and I still barely feel like i qualify as a 90s kid.

Yes your story is cohesive enough but it just sounds like every other superhero action movie that has come out in the last 5-10 years.

Aside from the nostalgia factor which isnt very important anyway, I cant really see what would be so different about CP compared X-Men or PR etc.

I think we can sacrifice Captain Planet and have something original come out of it and I think a political black comedy would be an interesting way to go about it.

Heck bring back Goldblum as Verminous Snake in a prosthetic costume standing in front of a court trying to explain to us that Captain Planet is the bad guy. perhaps they could cut it with scenes of action but really its trying to show us that perhaps CP and the Planeteers methods of stopping the crimes was/wasnt the right way to go about it. I dunno, I just wants something different.

I dont think its the only way they could do it but it sounds a bit better than the CGI fest we normally get.

 

[smallville fan]

Aside from the nostalgia factor which isnt very important anyway, I cant really see what would be so different about CP compared X-Men or PR etc.

I think we can sacrifice Captain Planet and have something original come out of it and I think a political black comedy would be an interesting way to go about it.

It's the environmental message it has and its exclusively environmental theme that makes it unique from every other franchise and what makes it the most relevant 90's superhero franchise as we still have environmental problems today. I mean just check out this article:

11 Storylines From 'Captain Planet' That Predicted What the World Looks Like in 2015

I'd be a little more ok with this version clearly inspired by Don Cheadle's version if they also greenlit another animated series on Netflix or something like Voltron. I just don't want to be disheartened that another generation of kids would miss out on what Captain Planet is really about, especially in this day and age.

I think it's a pretty sound consensus that audiences have had enough of depressed superheroes thanks to Zack Snyder's Superman.(That is unless they were inherently depressed like Batman, Punisher etc etc)

 

[Alien Anal]

It's the environmental message it has and its exclusively environmental theme that makes it unique from every other franchise and what makes it the most relevant 90's superhero franchise as we still have environmental problems today. I mean just check out this article:

11 Storylines From 'Captain Planet' That Predicted What the World Looks Like in 2015

I'd be a little more ok with this version clearly inspired by Don Cheadle's version if they also greenlit another animated series on Netflix or something like Voltron. I just don't want to be disheartened that another generation of kids would miss out on what Captain Planet is really about, especially in this day and age.

I think it's a pretty sound consensus that audiences have had enough of depressed superheroes thanks to Zack Snyder's Superman.(That is unless they were inherently depressed like Batman, Punisher etc etc)

I don't see anyone asking for a depressed captain planet. I just don't know how many crumby superhero movies that pull all the same punches I can handle. With what seems like half the world being climate change denialists no wonder CP is feeling a bit bummed out.

 

[Neno_Kos]

Also loved that show. The opening theme is epic!

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Man, I miss the 90's cartoons.

man, one of my favorite cartoons along with Captain Planet

 

[Dr. Evil]

You know, had Captain Planet been a live action version of the TV series, a name that would have sprung into my mind as Kwame would be Caleb McLaughlin from Stranger Things.

 

[Wheels]

Captain Planet is really about being well-meaning but awful. This is the show that inferred that baby killing countries had the right idea because our population is getting too big.

 

[Alien Anal]

Has anyone been watching Son of Zorn? Its a great mix of grounded comedy with the absurdness of a he-man like cartoon, That's how I'm imagining they could do this as a live action politcal comedy drama. I don't necessarily mean they should be animated in a real world. I would have all the viallains in prosthetics and costumes looking just like they did in the animated series and I would have CP looking like a cross between Dr Manhattan and Zorn but with his hair in a pony tail while he is in court.

I'd start with the planeteers being arrested for counts of terrorism. It wouldn't be all of them though as some have moved onto other things
Perhaps one is now a politician that is beginning to do some unethical things.

I'd have the court case play out with each villain taking a stand at the bench being questioned. They would each tell their stories of how the planeteers have been illegally trying to stop them and using extreme methods (their power rings). This is where would get to see some action scenes.

My mind is running with ideas atm. Apologies if I get annoying.

 

[Wheels]

I personally find your ideas on the property interesting. I don't see how this could be played straight and I support the idea of teaching about the environment and talking about global warming. The majority of these type of projects fail though.

 

[Silvermoth]

I love this idea but I don't love the idea of a washed up Captain Planet.

I hope they get that girl from Our kind of traitor as linka

 

[Breogan]

Is captain planet even human?
I thought he was like an elemental energy being anthropomorphised planet-consciousness or something?

 

[Alien Anal]

Is captain planet even human?
I thought he was like an elemental energy being anthropomorphised planet-consciousness or something?

Definitely not human but I think when they say down on his luck they dont mean he will have stubble while drinking a beer and playing Russian roulette at home alone in the dark.t:

 

[Silvermoth]

Is captain planet even human?
I thought he was like an elemental energy being anthropomorphised planet-consciousness or something?

Yeah I always imagined his skin was made of water/ice, hair from grass etc

 

[TheVileOne]

I dunno, I kind of think the Don Cheadle skits pretty much destroy the potential of Captain Planet as a movie.

Captain Planet was always a dumb hero.

 

[Breogan]

Definitely not human but I think when they say down on his luck they dont mean he will have stubble while drinking a beer and playing Russian roulette at home alone in the dark.t:

So like City of Angels Wings of Desire and K-PAX Man Facing Southeast, he believes he is a preternatural being, succumbs or pulled towards experiencing being "human", becoming powerless and toxic along with that environment., while forgetting his "true" self.
.... Until the kids; [rainbow] bring him back! [/rainbow] to "reality"....?
Hmmm?
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[Rowsdower!]

Captain Planet is really about being well-meaning but awful. This is the show that inferred that baby killing countries had the right idea because our population is getting too big.

Wait, what?!! I never got into Captain Planet as a kid. They actually did this?

 

[Lencho01]

I dunno, I kind of think the Don Cheadle skits pretty much destroy the potential of Captain Planet as a movie.

Captain Planet was always a dumb hero.

You might want to remove the link due to language.

The "Don't summon me again, unless you want that pain." line always gets me.

 

[smallville fan]

I dunno, I kind of think the Don Cheadle skits pretty much destroy the potential of Captain Planet as a movie.

Captain Planet was always a dumb hero.

I'd argue that the Don Cheadle parody inspired the stupid direction this movie's taking. Captain Planet wouldn't look as dumb in this day and age if they did more cartoons of him like Transformers and TMNT.

I love this idea but I don't love the idea of a washed up Captain Planet.

I hope they get that girl from Our kind of traitor as linka

Me neither. The direction of this is that this takes place years after the show. So the kids would be in their 40's. So Wheeler would be bald and has a gut.

 

[TheVileOne]

I'd argue that the Don Cheadle parody inspired the stupid direction this movie's taking. Captain Planet wouldn't look as dumb in this day and age if they did more cartoons of him like Transformers and TMNT.

Me neither. The direction of this is that this takes place years after the show. So the kids would be in their 40's. So Wheeler would be bald and has a gut.

Meh, it wasn't a very good show. Captain Planet was a two-dimensional character at best.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

No kidding, and I thought of this idea yesterday while on the toilet delivering a No.2.

I also remembered this funny skit.

 

[Boom]

Jesus.

It just figures that of all the superhero properties to put his name to, this is the one DiCaprio picks.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Must be a fan.

 

[Alien Anal]

Meh, it wasn't a very good show. Captain Planet was a two-dimensional character at best.

Yeh exactly, I dont think people should be holding this show in high regard like they do Power Rangers or Transformers. It was fun as a kid but its pretty rubbish. Thats why I think its fine that they should have fun with it and do whatever they want.