Disney’s Captain Nemo

[Akijama]

EXCLUSIVE: Director James Mangold has boarded Captain Nemo, an origin story based on H.G. Wells’ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea that has Sebastian Gutierrez (Hotel Noir and The Eye) working on the latest draft. Mangold is prepping the sequel to the Wolverine film he made with Hugh Jackman, but will navigate Captain Nemo down the line. It’s one that Disney has wanted to do for a long time, most recently when David Fincher was developing it (including a draft by his Se7en scribe Andrew Kevin Walker) before he dropped out to direct Gone Girl. Disney has been trying to find a compelling way to bring back the Jules Verne story of Captain Nemo as he creates his warship Nautilus. The original Disney film was one of the earliest live action pictures made by Walt Disney and released in 1954. (Treasure Island was the first, in 1950.) Disney famously bet his studio on a film best remembered for the giant squid scene. It became the second highest grossing film that year, won three Oscars and became the basis for a Disney theme park attraction.

Disney and Mangold aren’t the only ones swimming with this subject matter. Bryan Singer recently declared his next directorial outing will be a Fox version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, after he launches X-Men: Apocalypse May 27. Singer has a script by Rick Sordelet & Dan Studney, based on a story by Singer and those writers. Production will begin this fall, but since Disney’s film is a true origin story, it might well be different enough to be made in the future. Mangold is repped by WME and Management 360.

http://deadline.com/2016/02/james-ma...ne-1201709272/

[kylor]

Didn't we already find Nemo? Heh. Will be interesting to see I guess.

[dgoswald]

Oh lord, I can't wait to read the opinion pieces and forum back-and-forth when they announce who they've cast as Captain Nemo.

[kylor]

Originally Posted by dgoswald

Oh lord, I can't wait to read the opinion pieces and forum back-and-forth when they announce who they've cast as Captain Nemo.

I guess Adam Scott.

[dgoswald]

Tilda Swinton.

Seriously, we know that the character of Nemo is the son of an Indian king, but I doubt they'll cast an Indian as Nemo in something as big as this. (

[Show spoiler]Life of Pi was a bit different

). Maybe someone vaguely Indian-looking, like a Spaniard or a Mexican?

[Dalekbuster523Bluray]

It'll be interesting to see what a clownfish as a captain will look like.

[bowlingbilly10]

Originally Posted by dgoswald

Oh lord, I can't wait to read the opinion pieces and forum back-and-forth when they announce who they've cast as Captain Nemo.

They'll cast zac efron lol.

[atfree]

The only possible good thing to come out of this is maybe Disney will release the original film on Blu-ray

[Coenskubrick]

I'm not sure I'd want him as Nemo, but, despite Arronax later saying he might be Indian, his initial description:

The second stranger merits a more detailed description. I made out his prevailing qualities directly: self-confidence—because his head was well set on his shoulders, and his black eyes looked around with cold assurance; calmness—for his skin, rather pale, showed his coolness of blood; energy—evinced by the rapid contraction of his lofty brows; and courage—because his deep breathing denoted great power of lungs.

Whether this person was thirty-five or fifty years of age, I could not say. He was tall, had a large forehead, straight nose, a clearly cut mouth, beautiful teeth, with fine taper hands, indicative of a highly nervous temperament. This man was certainly the most admirable specimen I had ever met. One particular feature was his eyes, rather far from each other, and which could take in nearly a quarter of the horizon at once.

This faculty—(I verified it later)—gave him a range of vision far superior to Ned Land's. When this stranger fixed upon an object, his eyebrows met, his large eyelids closed around so as to contract the range of his vision, and he looked as if he magnified the objects lessened by distance, as if he pierced those sheets of water so opaque to our eyes, and as if he read the very depths of the seas.

makes me think of Benedict Cumberbatch.