Brian Singer making "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" movie

[Mr Light]

I'd like to see a version where Cumberbatch plays every character. There may need to be some green screen.

 

[Galileo7]

Hopefully the Nautilus production design looks impressive and not a disappointment. I liked the 1954 Walt Disney version, but not any others used in other film and television productions.

 

[J.T.B.]

in others - no fucking nuclear power or atomic explosions at the end.

It's a fair point, but more than offset IMO by Harper Goff's wonderfully 19th-century-looking production design. There have been much worse, I'm thinking of the goofy, budget-bound fantasy of Captain Nemo and the Underwater City or the laser-zapping Return of Captain Nemo in the late '70s.

From the "did you know?" department:
Goff designed a Nautilus model with "squeezed" proportions, right down to the shape of the rivets, so it could be shot with the available non-anamorphic lens, and it looked perfectly right in the final print!

Oh my goodness, I forgot that about the book!

You didn't forget, it was in Mysterious Island.

Back to your earlier post, James Mason has a hard voice to shake off. Back in college, I once saw a film clip of Rommel speaking and thought 'Weird, he doesn't sound like James Mason.'

Indeed. I could listen to Mason describe the "unusual" flavor of Thunderbird fortified wine over and over!

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[CorporalCaptain]

Would Naseeruddin shah who played Captain Nemo in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen still work?

I dunno, but I really enjoyed that interpretation of Nemo and the Nautilus.

 

[Gov Kodos]

If Lando Calrissian can drink Colt 45 and James Mason Thunderbird, I say to hell with those poncy assholes and their Maddog.