30,000 Leagues Under the Sea 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 2007 film directed by Gabriel Bologna. It is a modern update on the classic book "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", and stars Lorenzo Lamas as Lt. Aronnaux and Sean Lawlor as the misanthropic Captain Nemo. It also stars Natalie Stone, Kerry Washington, and Kim Little. The film is the first by The Asylum to be based on a Jules Verne novel, with "Journey to the Center of the Earth" following in 2008. In this modern retelling of the classic science-fiction tale, Captain Nemo uses his high-tech submarine to
Journey Through the Impossible "The Children of Captain Grant" and "Michael Strogoff", as similarly spectacular plays. Verne began playing with the idea of bringing a mixed selection of "Voyages Extraordinaires" characters together on a new adventure in early 1875, when he considered writing a novel in which Samuel Fergusson from "Five Weeks in a Balloon", Pierre Aronnax from "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", Phileas Fogg from "Around the World in Eighty Days", Dr. Clawbonny from "The Adventures of Captain Hatteras", and other characters would go around the world together in a heavier-than-air flying machine. Another novel featuring a similar trip around the world