20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 Village Roadshow film) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 Village Roadshow film) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1997 two-part television miniseries produced by Village Roadshow Pictures, based on the novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. It was written by Brian Nelson and directed by Rod Hardy. The "Nautilus" has been sinking and damaging ships and is at first thought to be a giant narwhal. Pierre Aronnax and Ned Land and Cabe Attucks fall off the USS "Abraham Lincoln" and are picked up by the "Nautilus". Pierre Aronnax's father Thierry Aronnax is with the US naval party. Nemo
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne in possession of powerful technologies, and other ideas—Zeman also opted to include themes and elements of other Verne novels. For example, the undersea sequences include references to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", and the aircraft "Albatross" from "Robur the Conqueror" also makes an appearance. Another Verne novel, "The Mysterious Island", may also have supplied some details. The film also pays tribute to the style of the pioneering early filmmaker Georges Méliès. Zeman likely saw Méliès's work at the Czech National Film Archive in Prague, where hand-colored prints were available of "The Impossible Voyage" (1904), "The Witch" (1906), and "The