Adaptations of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
has been adapted and referenced in popular culture on numerous occasions.

Stage, film and audio adaptations

Audio

Stage

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1874) – musical – libretto Joseph Bradford – music G. Operti.
  • A stage play adaptation by Walk the Plank (2003). In this version, the "Nautilese" private language used by the Nautilus's crew was kept, represented by a mixture of Polish and Persian.
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (2006). A stage play adaptation by Ade Morris for the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, England. This version was for six actors and used physical theatre to help tell the story, which emphasised parallels in Verne's original with contemporary world events.

Theatrical Films

Television

Video games

Board games

  • Nemo's War (2017) - A mainly solitaire board game created by Chris Taylor.[12] It has multiple editions and expansions.
  • The boardgame "Raiders of the Deep: U-boats of the Great War 1914-18" published by Compass Games includes an unofficial add-on featuring Captain Nemo's Nautilus. The add-on suggests that Nemo survived until WWI and continued his quest for revenge against the Allied empires.

Comic book and graphic adaptations

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea has been adapted into comic book format numerous times.

References In Popular Culture

  • The novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, and its film adaptations, uses Nemo's battle with the giant squid as an example of the unforgettable and immersive nature of great stories.
  • An episode of
    King Koopa
    referring to himself as "Koopa Nemo").
  • In a 1989 episode "
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series is heavily based on Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, including a battle with a giant squid. This story takes place in New York City of the 1980s where a flood caused by Krang using a Super Pump has occurred.[28]
  • The second part of the second series of Around the World with Willy Fog entitled Willy Fog 2 by Spanish studio BRB Internacional was "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
  • A
    99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
    ".
  • In the 2006 "The Evil Beneath" segment of "
    Nautilus) at the bottom of fictional Bahama Quadrangle, takes revenge against humanity by transforming unsuspecting tourists like Jimmy, Carl and Sheen into zombie-like algae men (the Nautilus crew).[29]
  • In the 1990 sci-fi comedy film, Back to the Future Part III, Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) states that Jules Verne is his favourite author and adores Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. At the end of the film, Dr. Brown introduces his two sons, named Jules and Verne respectively.
  • A 1994 Saturday Night Live sketch (featuring Kelsey Grammer as Captain Nemo) pokes fun at the misconception of leagues being a measure of depth instead of a measure of distance. Nemo tries repeatedly, though unsuccessfully, to convince his crew of this.
  • One of the inaugural rides at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom was called 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Submarine Voyage and was based on the Disney movie.
  • In the novel and movie Sphere, Harry Adams (played by Samuel L. Jackson) reads and takes an interest in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
  • Captain Nemo is one of the main characters in Alan Moore's and Kevin O'Neill's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, as well as in the film.
  • In the 2001
    Valhalla Rising
    , reference to a submarine that "inspired" Verne's story is made as one of the central plot points; it differs in having been British, with Verne being accused of being anti-British.
  • Nemo and the Nautilus, along with several other plot points, are major elements of Kevin J. Anderson's Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius.
  • The novel series Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica depicts Captain Nemo in a "world within a world". In this version, Nemo is the captain of the sentient ship Yellow Dragon (stated to be the in-universe origin of the Nautilus) and therefore a prominent figure in the series. Jules Verne's character is said to be fiction based on him.
  • Mentioned in Into the Wild as one of Chris McCandless' inspirations, before his trek into the Alaskan interior.
  • The Nautilus is said to be based on a civil war era ship in the novel, Leviathan by David Lynn Golemon.
  • An achievement in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is called "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and is awarded after completing a quests in the Vashj'ir zone. This includes travelling in a submarine, being attacked by a giant squid and ultimately trying to stop the Naga from overthrowing Neptulon. There is also a submarine built by the goblins that looks similar to Disney's portrayal of the Nautilus, piloted by Captain "Jewels" Verne. The submarine has appropriately been dubbed "The Verne" (after Jules Verne).
  • On February 8, 2011 the Google homepage featured an interactive logo adapted from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" honoring Jules Verne's 183rd birthday.[30]
  • The novel, "I, Nemo" by J. Dharma & Deanna Windham is a re-imagining of Captain Nemo's origins told from his point of view. This book ends where "
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
    " begins and is the first in a three part series.
  • British author Adam Roberts reworks Verne's original with his novel Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea.[31] Unlike Verne's original, where the distance specified is a horizontal voyage, Roberts's submarine travels vertically the stated mileage.
  • American author Lewis Crow uses the events of Verne's book as the background for his novels "The Nautilus Legacy" and "The Lone Captain", which tell the life story of Captain Nemo's son.
  • The Japanese
    Code: Realize- Guardian of Rebirth, features a scientist named Nemo. Nemo created an airship named the Nautilus within the game. He considers the engineer Impey Barbicane, a reference to another Jules Verne novel
    , his ultimate scientific rival.
  • Referenced and featured in the ABC television series Once Upon A Time
  • In the final episode of season 1 of Around the World in 80 Days (2021),Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is alluded to as Phileas Fogg and his companions depart for their next adventure. The series has since been renewed for a second season, but it is yet to be confirmed if it will adapt Verne’s submarine novel.[32]

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