20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 Village Roadshow film) way to Jules Verne, who uses it as a basis for his novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". The "Nautilus" gets its power by extracting the sun's heat from the sea water: this is impossible technology, and the movie wrongly calls it hydroelectricity. "DVD Verdict" wrote the miniseries "comes off as incomplete", but praised Michael Caine's performance as Captain Nemo. David Cornelius of "DVD Talk" called the adaptation "dreadfully dull", disapproving of director Hardy's and screenwriter Nelson's work. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 Village Roadshow film) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1997 two-part television miniseries produced
The Chase of the Golden Meteor Meteor". In 1986 the Société Jules Verne published the original French version. In 1998 Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, republished "The Chase of the Golden Meteor" in a fully illustrated replica version of the Grant Richards version with an introduction by Gregory A. Benford. In 2006 The Meteor Hunt was published by Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press translated by F. P. Walter and Walter James Miller from the original text by Jules Verne. The Chase of the Golden Meteor The Chase of the Golden Meteor () is a novel by Jules Verne. It was one of the last