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
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea the Sea"." "The Toilers of the Sea" also contains an episode where a worker fights a giant octopus, wherein the octopus symbolizes the Industrial Revolution. It is probable that Verne borrowed the symbol, but used it to allude to the Revolutions of 1848 as well, in that the first man to stand against the "monster" and the first to be defeated by it is a Frenchman. In several parts of the book, Captain Nemo is depicted as a champion of the world's underdogs and downtrodden. In one passage, Captain Nemo is mentioned as providing some help to Greeks rebelling against