Another Iconic Captain Hitting Screens

Another Iconic Captain Hitting Screens

A film adaptation of the children's novel focused on everybody's favorite underpants wearing captain from a fictional comic book written by fictional 4th graders is in the making.

By slyila - Mar 02, 2014 08:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Animated Features
Source: thewrap.com




DreamWorks Animation recently acquired the rights to do a "Captain Underpants" animated feature film. The film, based on the popular children's novel series by Dave Pilkey, will be penned by Nicholas Stoller ("Get Him to The Greek" & "The Muppets") and directed by Rob Letterman ("Monsters vs Aliens") who will also be directing the upcoming "Goosebumps" film.

As for the cast, Mr.Krupp/Captain Underpants will be voiced by Ed Helms of the "The Hangover" series. Kevin Hart ("Ride Along") and Thomas Middleditch ("The Wolf of Wall Street") will be voicing George and Harold, the 4th graders who create Captain Underpants. The movie will also star Nick Kroll of FX's "the League" as the villainous Professor Poopypants and Jordan Peele of "Key & Peele" as the boys 4th grade nemesis.

There's no clear information on what the story is going to be with a very vague and basic IMDB description. Still, based on the cast of characters the screenplay will be a combination of books in the series, with a focus on the first book to establish the creation of Captain Underpants.

"Captain Underpants" is slated for a March 2017 release.

Let me know what you hope to see from this, the ultimate of kids superhero movies, if you hope to see it at all!

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JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 3/2/2014, 8:52 PM
LOL! My kids are going to dig this.
ALegendaryPanda
ALegendaryPanda - 3/2/2014, 9:03 PM
Jesus [frick]ing christ.
ForeverPowerful
ForeverPowerful - 3/2/2014, 9:18 PM
Wow...I just skipped over the cast. Didn't realize who was in it.



Still gonna be shit though.
superherofan21
superherofan21 - 3/2/2014, 10:24 PM
Please, dear God, let this also get an animated series and a video game franchise. Captain Underpants NEEDS to become a household name!
SnapperCarr
SnapperCarr - 3/2/2014, 11:21 PM
It's about damn time.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 3/3/2014, 4:04 AM
TucksFrom2015
TucksFrom2015 - 3/3/2014, 5:51 AM
this is astounding.
...and it belongs on the homepage
Pasto
Pasto - 3/3/2014, 5:56 AM
Only Tucks...
TucksFrom2015
TucksFrom2015 - 3/3/2014, 6:01 AM

"TRA-LA-LAAAAAAAAAA!"

MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 3/3/2014, 6:33 AM
Cool, by the time this comes out, I'll be able to take my son to the theatre.
ComicsToFilm
ComicsToFilm - 3/3/2014, 7:42 AM
Read this in grade school! Not sure I can be excited about it, but that's a pretty solid team for an animated film about underpants.
SecNotSure
SecNotSure - 3/3/2014, 8:49 AM
Ha, ok now where's my Powdered Toast Man movie?
themidnightking
themidnightking - 3/3/2014, 9:05 AM
[frick] yeah! Captain Underpants was the shit!
slyila
slyila - 3/3/2014, 2:00 PM
@FlamingCarrot lmao yeah and Quailman
@kojak yah watch out for those spelling errors. Didn't really edit it just noticed it wasn't on CBM yet so hammered it out quickly.
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