{"id":92102,"date":"2016-10-19T11:39:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T10:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=92102"},"modified":"2016-10-19T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T10:39:41","slug":"captain-planet-film-coming-from-leonardo-dicaprio-glen-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/captain-planet-film-coming-from-leonardo-dicaprio-glen-powell\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Planet film coming from Leonardo DiCaprio &#038; Glen Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/captain-planet-movie-leonardo-dicaprio-938852\">THR<\/a>, Paramount is teaming up with Leonardo DiCaprio&#8217;s production company Appian Way Productions to bring everyone&#8217;s favourite environmental superhero squad, <em><strong>Captain Planet and the Planeteers<\/strong><\/em>, to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>Also set to tackle global warming is\u00a0<em><strong>Scream Queens<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; Chad Radwell actor Glen Powell and his writing partner Jono Matt (<em><strong>Above The Line<\/strong><\/em>), who are currently in talks to pen the screenplay if the deal goes ahead. It&#8217;s likely that Powell will also star in the film.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Captain Planet And The Planeteers\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>was a 1990-1992 children&#8217;s TV show which focused on a group of five young people, each equipped with magic rings that controlled with elements, who joined together with Captain Planet to help him fight against environmental hazards.<\/p>\n<p>THR&#8217;s sources say that the new version of\u00a0<em><strong>Captain Planet\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>will take place years after the original show, with &#8220;the Captain now a washed-up has-been who needs the kids more than they need him&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The film is still in the &#8216;in talks&#8217; stage, but if it goes ahead the environmentally savvy DiCaprio will produce the project along with Jennifer Davisson Killoran for Appian Way.<\/p>\n<p>Before Paramount and Appian Way came together, Sony had a\u00a0<em><strong>Captain Planet\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>project in development but it ended up losing the rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get all the latest superhero movie news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/4623\/s\/scifinow-issue-125\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">with every issue of SciFiNow.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Planet and the Planeteers is heading to the big screen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":92119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[3280],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/maxresdefault-1-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}