Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea - Adaptations and Variations

Adaptations and Variations

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (20,000 lieues sous les mers) (1907) – The silent short movie by French filmmaker Georges Méliès.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) – The first feature film (also silent) based on the novel. The actor/director Allan Holubar played Captain Nemo.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1952) – A two-part adaptation for the science fiction television anthology Tales of Tomorrow. (Part One was subtitled The Chase, Part Two was subtitled The Escape.)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) – Probably the most well-known film adaptation of the book, directed by Richard Fleischer, produced by Walt Disney, and starring Kirk Douglas as Ned Land and James Mason as Captain Nemo.
• Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) – A British film based on characters from the novel, starring Robert Ryan as Captain Nemo.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1972) – An animated film by Rankin-Bass aired in the United States.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1973) – An Australian Famous Classic Tales cartoon.
• Captain Nemo (Капитан Немо) (1975) – A Soviet film adaptation.
• The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo (1975) – A futuristic version of Captain Nemo and the Nautilus appeared in this Canadian animated television series.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1976) – A Marvel Classics Comics adaptation.
• The Return of Captain Nemo (1978), sometimes known as The Amazing Captain Nemo, starred Jose Ferrer in the title role.
• The Black Hole (1979) – A very loose science fiction variation on the novel. Maximilian Schell's mad captain character is a more murderous, and considerably less sympathetic version of Captain Nemo. His hair, moustache and beard resemble those of James Mason from the 1954 film.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985) – A made-for-television animated film by Burbank Films Australia starring Tom Burlinson as Ned Land.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997, Village Roadshow) – A made-for-television film starring Michael Caine as Captain Nemo.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997, Hallmark) – A made-for-television film starring Ben Cross as Captain Nemo.
• Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) – A children's educational video program inspired from the book.
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1998) - an audiobook published by Blackstone Audiobooks, with the unabridged text read by Frederick Davidson.
• The second part of the second season of Around the World with Willy Fog (1983) by Spanish studio BRB Internacional was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990–1991) and Nadia: The Secret of Fuzzy (1992) – A Japanese science fiction anime TV series and film directed by Hideaki Anno, and inspired by the book and exploits of Captain Nemo.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2001) – A radio drama adaption of Jules Verne's novel aired in the United States.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2002) – A DIC (now owned by Cookie Jar) children's animated television film loosely based on the novel. It premiered on television on Nickelodeon Sunday Movie Toons and was released on DVD and VHS shortly afterward by MGM Home Entertainment.
• A stage play adaptation by Walk the Plank (2003). In this version, the "Nautilese" private language used by the Nautilus's crew was kept, represented by a mixture of Polish and Persian.
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) – Although not a film version of the Verne novel it does feature an Indian version of Captain Nemo (and his submarine the Nautilus) as a member of the 'League' of 19th century superheroes.
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (2006). A stage play adaptation by Ade Morris for the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor. This version was for six actors and used physical theatre to help tell the story, which emphasised parallels in Verne's original with contemporary world events.
• 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007) – A modern update on the classic book starring Lorenzo Lamas as Lt. Aronnaux and Sean Lawlor as the misanthropic Captain Nemo.