6 Ways To Ace A Captain Planet Movie

6. Make It Generational

Look, let's be honest – Captain Planet is a nineties baby kind of thing. Running from 1990 to 1996, it is filled with tons of references to the decade and the characters are very nineties-esque. And we're not just talking about how Linka was from the USSR in the original season, because that place still existed at that time.

Cast age-appropriate stars like Idris Elba or even give Darius McCray some much-needed (and much-deserved) screen time as a middle-aged Kwame. You could even cast LeVar Burton in the role, since he voiced the original character.

Likewise, throw some of these 40-something year olds into the roles of our favorite Planeteers: Michael Peña as Ma-Ti, Ethan Hawke or Bradley Cooper as Wheeler, Diane Kruger or Olga Kurylenko as Linka, or Christy Chung as Gi.

Make the story be that these Planeteers have served their time, they're tired and jaded, and ready to retire – so they seek out and train the new breed of Planeteers. This opens up the plot to center around the Generation Z cast – folks like Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Keke Palmer, Kyle Massey, or save poor Wenwen Han from having the Karate Kid remake be her biggest film credit.

The point is that the story would be both an origin and an ending, passing the torch on to the next generation.