My search for the ultimate cast of the planned big budget Captain Future feature movie has been pretty easy so far. For the Captain himself, Ezra Gurney and Joan Randall I already had actors in mind before starting to write about it. Otho (German: Otto) the shapeshifting android, made out of an elastic rubber like material, gave me a headache. He’s wearing a strange outfit, pink wrestler like suit and a blue cap, is a funny joker and bald. At some point I thougt about Nacho Libre and Jack Black’s appearance as a Mexican wrestler in it. The more I thought about it, the more I liked the thought.

Personally, I am not the biggest fan of Jack Black. I can totally see him pull off Otho’s strange character though and not being afraid of having his body virtually stretched and deformed while constantly being called a rubber doll by metal robot buddy Grag.

Jack Black as Otho completes the cast. Grag the robot and Simon Wright the human brain will most likely get their CGI treatment and Ken (the kid) hopefully won’t appear in the movie.

What do you think of the cast and are you already looking forward to the movie, too? I wish I still had my Captain Future comic books. As far as I can remember they were amazing and like the anime series the stories were not just for teenagers only.

And here the rest of the cast once more: