US EditionRoush Review: Shallow Escapism Aboard the ‘Nautilus’
- The TV series Nautilus, created by James Dormer, debuted on AMC on June 29 as a prequel exploring the origins of Captain Nemo, inspired by Jules Verne’s classic 19th-century adventure story Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
- Disney+ initially ordered and completed Nautilus but dropped it, and AMC later picked it up, reflecting challenges in producing a family-friendly story about British colonialism.
- The show portrays Captain Nemo as an Indian prince who seeks revenge against a powerful colonial corporation that enslaves laborers in India to construct the Nautilus submarine.
- Nautilus blends historical and fantastical elements, featuring a diverse crew, steampunk design, intense naval battles, and environmental themes like saving a pod of whales.
- The series airs new episodes weekly on Sundays on AMC, and its anticolonial and anti-imperialist themes suggest limited prospects for a second season but provide a unique origin story.
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Nautilus had to go deeper and darker than Indiana Jones
Nautilus, which premieres on AMC on June 29, tells the origin story of Captain Nemo from Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, portraying him as an Indian prince seeking to use the eponymous submarine to get vengeance against the British East India Company. While the series has elements of the fantastical, it’s rooted in history that showrunner James Dormer (Medici, Beowulf: Return to the Shadowlands) got to experience firsthand …
'Nautilus' review: Capt. Nemo's swashbuckling origin story
Certain elements of Jules Verne’s 1870 novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” have become a TV series, “Nautilus,” premiering Sunday on AMC, which picked up the show after Disney+, which ordered and completed it, let it drop. Created by James Dormer, it’s not an adaptation but a prequel, or an origin story, as the comic book kids like to say, in which Nemo, not yet captain, sets sail in his submarine for the first time. Verne’s imaginativ…
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