Planetary is a series set in DC’s Wildstorm universe and follows a team of superpowered individuals who form the main field team of the Planetary Organization, that aims to expose the hidden history of the world and the mysterious phenomenon within it.
The main characters, self-dubbed archeologists of the unknown, fight and/or meet analogues of well known fictional or real life characters such as Nick Fury, James Bond, Fu Manchu, the Hulk, the Joker, Tarzan and many more.
This one’s another of those movies that can never happen. Why can’t happen? The main villains are the Fantastic Four with different names.
So yeah. No chance. But that has never stopped me before.
Tim Robbins as Elijah Snow
A recent recruit to Planetary. One of the race of superhumans born precisely at the turn of the twentieth century known as the “Century Babies”. A surly man with memory issues with the power of heat-subtraction, meaning he freezes stuff. This one time, he froze Dracula solid and kicked him in the nuts so hard it was shattered.
You may know Robbins from
Mystic River,
Bull Durham and
The Shawshank Redemption.
Rhona Mitra as Jakita Wagner
A chronically bored woman with the powers of super-speed and super-strength. She works for Planetary to stave off boredom, through such activities as wrestling giant mutant ants.
You may known Mitra from
Boston Legal,
Doomsday and
Nip/Tuck.
John Krasinski as The Little
Drummer Boy
A possibly insane technophile adopted at a young age by the Planetary organization. He has the ability to communicate with information system and perceive measurable information of his surrounding information.
You may know Krasinski from
The Office.
Dermot Mulroney as Dr. Randall Dowling
Leader of the Four, a group of American astronauts attempting to land on the moon in 1961, who gained superhuman powers when they entered an alternate reality on the way and made a with that world’s inhabitants. They went on to gain covert world dominance.
He is a Reed Richards analogue with the ability to colonize the minds of others, referred to as “stretching” his mind.
You may know Mulroney from
About Schmidt,
Burn After Reading and a whole bunch of Chick Flicks.
Rebecca Romaijn as Kim Suskind
Dowling’s lover and a member of the four. A physicist, astronaut and daughter of a Nazi scientist.
She is an analogue of Sue Storm Richards, with the same powers of invisibility and forcefield projection.
You may know Romaijn from the
X-Men film series as well as
The Punisher.
Jason Lewis as William Leather
A member of the Four. He was the flight engineer on the four’s mission, though the relationship with them soured later on.
He is an analogue of Johnny Storm, with the same powers of being on fire. But his fire is blue, which is kinda cool looking.
Holt McCallany as Jacob Greene
The last member of the four and the one that is least seen. A WWII secret operations pilot and the pilot on the Four’s mission.
He is an analogue of Ben Grimm, and is just as tough and twice as indestructible. Rather than becoming the kind-hearted idol of millions, he became a vicious, unstoppable killing machine mad with torment.
You may know McCallany from
The Losers and
Lights Out.
Jamie Hector as Ambrose Chase
A former member of Planetary that went missing in action. He had the ability to warp the laws of physics in his immediate environment.
You may know Hector from
The Wire.
Dwayne Johnson as Axel Brass
Another Century Baby, the product of a secret society’s eugenics program, also incest.
He’s an analogue of Doc Savage and possesses the powers of.
Jon Hamm as John Stone
The world’s best super-spy and an old friend of Elijah Stone.
He’s an analogue of Nick Fury, James Bond, and many other super-spies.
You know where you may Hamm from.
Seriously, I think many of us agree Hamm should do a CBM one of these days. Would be a cool of it was as an American James Bond/Nick Fury mash-up.