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Planeteers , connect ! The 1990s environmental cartoon " Captain Planet and the Planeteers " may be revamp as a moving picture grow by Leonardo DiCaprio .
DiCaprio ’s Appian Way Productions and moving picture studio apartment Paramount are in talks for the rights to the cartoon series , according toThe Hollywood Reporter .
Leonardo DiCaprio at a screening of “Before The Flood” in Miami Beach, Florida, on Oct. 4, 2016.
DiCaprio has long been anoutspoken environmentalist . His climate alteration documentary " Before The Flood , " which was sieve at President Barack Obama ’s South By South Lawn festival , centered on humanity ’s grim fate ifclimate changeis depart unchecked . Captain Planet may offer a more hopeful scene for the future of the planet , as the cartoon environmental hero was " Earth ’s large superstar . " [ The realism of Climate Change : 10 Myths Busted ]
In the original series , the green - haired environmentalist superhero forge with a grouping of five teenager to fight back environmental evil . Each teen symbolize a dissimilar power ( earth , blast , air current , water and warmness ) and a dissimilar continent , and to rally Captain Planet , the so - call Planeteers would activate their baron . The film will purportedly take shoes old age after the events of the cartoon , focusing on a lap - up Captain Planet who now needs the aid of the child he had previously recruited in his environmentalist delegation .
The animated cartoon was antecedently pitched as a movie by Sony Pictures , but the studio did not raise the film before its call on the rights to the cartoon lifted , reported The Hollywood Reporter .
Original clause onLive Science .
