Posted on 07/20/2011 2:03:40 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
“By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!” That's right, the blue-skinned, green-haired, eco-friendly superhero may eventually be coming to a movie theater near you in a live-action feature film.
A press release on Tuesday from Stuart Snyder, president and COO of Turner Broadcasting System Inc.'s Animation, Young Adults and Kids Media division, says that Cartoon Network has struck a development agreement with Angry Filmworks to begin working on the film.
“The messages of Captain Planet are even more relevant today,” said Snyder. “We feel this team can bring the world’s first eco-hero to life in a powerful motion picture that is not only pertinent but entertaining.”
The original cartoon show, “Captain Planet and the Planeteers,” began in 1990 and featured a group teens who each received a ring, with each ring containing a different power. When they combined their powers in the air (via beams of light that came out of their rings) Captain Planet appeared and fought the bad guys who proved to be hazards to the environment. Once he successfully defeated his eco-foes, he would return to the rings and allude to the teen characters' responsibility to help the Earth, saying, “The power is yours!”
Ted Turner partnered with DIC Enterprises to create the original show as a means of informing young viewers about serious environmental issues. At the end of each show the characters offered practical advice, like making sure garbage makes it into a receptacle as opposed to throwing it on the ground, in order to show kids that they too could help the environment.
Angry Filmworks now has the exclusive rights to develop and package the property and move it closer to production, and notable producers Don Murphy and Susan Montford will be taking up the project. Murphy, notably, was a producer for the “Transformers” movie franchise, while Montford worked alongside him and Executive Producer Steven Spielberg on an upcoming Hugh Jackman film called “Real Steel.”
“We are extremely excited about bringing the good Captain back to life,” said Murphy. “His adventures are known worldwide and he is recognized across generations. We expect to make a spectacular series of films with the amazing team at Cartoon Network.”
“With the earthquakes, tornadoes, melting icebergs and all the other problems threatening the world right now, Earth really needs her greatest defender,” said Montford.
The Captain Planet cartoon series lasted six full seasons during its original run. It featured a number of celebrity voices, including Whoopi Goldberg (Gaia), Martin Sheen (Sly Sludge), Meg Ryan (Dr. Blight), and Sting (Zarm). “Captain Planet and the Planeteers” also received several Daytime Emmy nominations and won multiple Environmental Media Awards.
Star Blazers (Space Cruiser Yamato) was ground-breaking for its time. I recall one of the characters saying “Oh God!” in reaction to another character being in mortal peril, and when we were watching it, my mother stuck her head in and went “What? Did someone actually say “God” in a cartoon?”
Seriously, I prefer old school anime to all the “lolicon” borderline pedo stuff that’s out there right now.
I’ll rewatch the Nostalgia Critic’s review of Captain Planet in honor of this news.
Maybe, but like Algore's propaganda flick, this one will probably become mandatory viewing in public schools.
LOL!
This is no hero!!!
He promotes the ASW scare/scam he's a villain plain and simple. Shame on them for frightening the children with nonsense.
“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea
-Matthew 18:6
I’ve yet to read anything about Captain Planet from people my age, liberal or conservative, that didn’t end in them calling it propaganda and gay.
I’ll admit I watched it, but even I knew it was bulls#it at the time.
*This piece of excrement will be the biggest bomb since Howard the Duck. *
I hope it’s a much bigger bomb.
I hope every theater that runs it loses more than they’ve ever lost on a movie ever.
When I think live-action Captain Planet, I see Richard Simmons as the actor to portrait him.
How about lady Gaga?
Another fine production that Lili Riefenstahl would’ve been proud of.
So what’s he gonna do this time? Sterilize a bunch of people he considers “unfit to reproduce?”
Earthquakes and tornadoes are threatening the Earth?
That is called the weather and geological systems of a healthy active planet,as for icebergs.........well they aren’t supposed to last forever.
Yes we are no longer in danger of a new ice age, we are now faced with global warming. < /sarc >
Quite possibly the dumbest show ever.
Global warming is causing the plates to shift and cause eartquakes. That’s because the ecos god “Gaia” is “upset”. Humanity has sinned and must pay indulgences to third world dictators and reduce to using one square of toilet paper...
infuriating that children are being taught that earthquakes are somehow a consequence of human activity. The worst kind of cargo cult primitive superstition.
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