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 Diabolic Tenant" (1909). Zeman freely used details from Méliès's style as inspiration; for example, the piston-powered steam engine and submarine in "Vynález zkázy" are creatively adapted variants of those in "The Impossible Voyage". Other possible cinematic sources include Fritz Lang's 1927 film "Metropolis", Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film "Battleship Potemkin", and possibly even Stuart Paton's 1916 version of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". The film has long been noted for its unique visual style, which faithfully recreates that of the Victorian line engravings (by Édouard Riou, Léon Benett, and others) featured in the original editions of Verne's novels. According to Karel