I would make a joke about how Hollywood is out of original ideas, but honestly, I’m just surprised it took this long to make a Captain Underpants movie.
For those either too young or too old, Captain Underpants was a series of children’s books that came out in the late ’90s and early 2000s. They were like comic books for children and they were f*cking incredible. They actually made kids want to read.
So here we are, two decades after the first book’s release, and Hollywood has finally decided to turn it into a franchise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs2SrqLum1M
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie tells the story of two overly imaginative pranksters named George and Harold, who hypnotize their principal into thinking he’s a ridiculously enthusiastic, incredibly dimwitted superhero named Captain Underpants.
David Soren (Turbo) is directing a script by Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors, Storks), with voice work from Kevin Hart (Ride Along, Jumanji) and Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley, Search Party) as George and Harold, Nick Kroll (Loving, Sing) as the villain Professor Poopypants, Jordan Peele (Key & Peele, Keanu) as nerdy tattletale Melvin Sneedly, and Ed Helms (The Office, The Hangover) as Captain Underpants himself.
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie will premiere in theaters on June 2, 2017.
