“More like Captain Woke!”

A brand new Captain Planet sequence is within the works, and the talk over simply how “woke” it’s going to be has already ignited.

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The unique Nineteen Nineties cartoon was about 5 youngsters who gained the ability to summon Captain Planet, an environmentalist superhero, as all of them labored collectively to attempt to save the planet from ecological disasters and eco-villains.

A live-action tackle Captain Planet and the Planeteers has been within the works for awhile now. Last week, Deadline introduced that Netflix landed the sequence, which can be made at the side of Greg Berlanti and Leonardo DiCaprio’s respective manufacturing corporations, Berlanti Productions and Appian Way. 

Is Captain Planet “woke”?

Not a lot else is understood concerning the present at the moment. However, it doesn’t really feel like a leap to imagine that environmentalism goes to stay a significant focus of the present.

As such, individuals who assume local weather change is a hoax and caring about the way forward for others is propaganda are already indignant about it.

Others have been prepared for Captain Planet to embrace precisely how on-the-nose it was identified for being and push issues to the intense.

Don Cheadle as Captain Planet

Funny-or-Die really poked enjoyable at how over-the-top the children’ cartoon may very well be over a decade in the past. It was a sequence of live-action shorts starring Don Cheadle as Captain Planet, a superhero so hell-bent on defending Earth that he had no drawback taking down humanity itself to take action.

As quickly as information concerning the upcoming live-action sequence started circulating, individuals beginning throwing it again to this model of Captain Planet.

Give the individuals what they need, Netflix!

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