Since my childhood I’ve been dreaming about a Captain Future movie with real actors. Unfortunately the still brilliant anime series was way more popular in Germany than in the United States, which is probably one of the reasons why Hollywood hasn’t come up with it yet. It’s likely that every German person of my age would recognise the theme song or some of the other great background tracks. Phil Fuldner’s remix of one of them even topped the charts and got people dancing in the clubs.

Throughout the years I have had several favourite actors I would have liked to see starring in the imaginary feature movie. They all got older now and there is still no sign of it yet. In a delusion of grandeur, hoping that someone else than Uwe Boll will see this article and go ‘Wow, what a great idea’, I will publish my current dream cast. In a series of articles I’ll name my favourites one after another until the cast is complete. Let’s start with the hero of the universe, Captain Future (Curtis Newton) himself.

Captain Future

A long time ago, Brad Pitt was my favourite for the role of Captain Future himself. It’s too late for him now but I have found a great replacement. Justin Hartley aka Oliver Green/Green Arrow from Smallville. He would need to dye his hair though but he’s got the look and – thanks to Smallville – already an heroic image.

What do you think would be the ideal Captain Future? Do you even know the show? Leave your comments below.

Next time I will present my favourite for Ezra Gurney (German: Ezella Garnie), feel free to already speculate about who it’s going to be.

If you have never seen the show, you can find a few episodes on YouTube (German episode / US episode).

UPDATE: In fact, a Captain Future movie has been announced a couple of months ago. So it is indeed a great time to publish my dream cast. It will be a big budget movie like the 5th element with an international cast. The director will be Christian Alvart who has been working on Pandorum before. I haven’t seen the movie yet but heard good things about it. It lands on my list of films to watch rrrrrright now.