6 Ways To Ace A Captain Planet Movie
4. Retain A Diverse, International Cast
Climate change is a worldwide thing. You can't just throw a Texan, a Bostonian, a Brit, and a token Latino into a group and go, “Well there's your Hollywood Planeteers!”
The original series had one person from each of the major continents: Wheeler from North America, Gi from Asia, Ma-Ti from South America, Kwame from Africa, and Linka from Europe. Even if you don't keep the original makeup, doing this would be pivotal to keeping the cast in proper order.
Whether you use a Japanese woman, a British Man, a White South African, a Black Venezuelan – whatever, it just needs to be a bunch of different colored people coming from all over the world. Otherwise you lose the agency of a world-threatening issue.
Recently news spread that Indonesia is moving its capital because the city of Jakarta is sinking into the ocean faster than they can prevent it; Shanghai is regularly losing a few inches of coastline; the Caribbean is under constant threat of massive hurricanes, and Darfur has devastating droughts. There's plenty of affected places to have our new heroes rise up from.