20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997/II) (TV)

Director:

Rod Hardy

Writers (WGA):

Jules Verne (novel)
Brian Nelson (teleplay)

Release Date:

11 May 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Romance | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Welcome to the last place on earth.

Plot:

The year is 1886, when New England's fishing harbours are the scene for a "creature of unknown origin" destroying ships at sea...

Plot Keywords:

Sea | Jules Verne | Monster | Captain Nemo | Ocean

Cast

Michael Caine	...	Captain Nemo
Patrick Dempsey	...	Pierre Arronax
Mia Sara	...	Mara
Bryan Brown	...	Ned Land
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	...	Cabe Attucks (as Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje)
John Bach	...	Thierry Arronax
Nicholas Hammond	...	Saxon
Peter McCauley	...	Admiral McCutcheon
Kerry Armstrong	...	Lydia Rawlings
Cecily Chun	...	Imei (as Cecily Anna)
Ken Senga	...	Shimoda
Gerry Day	...	Nitongu
Steven Grives	...	Garfield (as Steven Grieves)
Boe Kaan	...	Ivanda
Damian Monk	...	Dennison
Jeff Dornan	...	American Scientist
Gabriel Carr	...	Russian Scientist
Peter Settle	...	British Scientist (as Peter Steele)
Peter Scheidel	...	Austrian Scientist
Duke Bannister	...	Scientist #2
Christopher Pate	...	Conductor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bryon Williams	...	(uncredited)

Directed by
Rod Hardy

Writing credits (WGA)
Jules Verne		(novel)
Brian Nelson		(teleplay)

Produced by
Dean Barnes	....	producer (as Dean W. Barnes)
Jeffrey M. Hayes	....	executive producer
Tom Hoffie	....	line producer
Keith Pierce	....	executive producer
Richard Pierce	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Mark Snow

Cinematography by
James Bartle
Ron Hagen
Bruce Phillips

Film Editing by
Drake Silliman

Casting by
Vicki Huff		(as Victoria Huff)

Art Direction by
Michael Rumpf

Set Decoration by
Daryl Porter

Makeup Department
Maree McDonald	....	assistant makeup artist (as Maree MacDonald)
Cathy McKay	....	assistant hair stylist
José Luis Pérez	....	hair stylist (as Jose Perez)
Margaret Stevenson	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Julie Forster	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Peter McLennan	....	third assistant director
Angela McPherson	....	second assistant director (as Angella McPherson)
John Powditch	....	first assistant director
Stuart Wood	....	first assistant director: underwater unit

Art Department
Daniel Cairns	....	art department runner
Laura Elkington	....	art department runner
Andrew Gardiner	....	construction manager
Ray Pedler	....	scenic artist
Rolland Pike	....	property master
Michael Sarley	....	storyboard artist
Matt Sloan	....	props

Sound Department
Daniel Colman	....	sound effects editor
Norval D. Crutcher III	....	supervising adr editor
Al Gomez	....	supervising foley mixer
David Kitchens	....	sound supervisor
Ben Zarai	....	supervising sound editor

Special Effects by
Mont Fieguth	....	special effects (as Monty Fieguth)
Angelo Sahin	....	special effects foreman
Kym Sainsbury	....	prosthetics supervisor

Visual Effects by
Eric Backman	....	model maker
Mark Benard	....	visual effects artist
Kerry Bidwell	....	model maker
Chris Chitty	....	miniatures engineering
Richard Chitty	....	miniatures engineering
David Cuthbert	....	model maker
Michael Daczynski	....	model maker
Ben Gibson	....	model maker
Adam Grace	....	model maker
Brad Greenwood	....	sculptor
Brett Harrison	....	model maker
Ian Kath	....	model maker
Josh Madrers	....	model maker
Paul McCarthy	....	model maker
Neil McLaughlin	....	miniatures engineering
Raji Naru	....	miniatures engineering
Bruce Phillips	....	visual effects director of photography
Dennis Pradella	....	model maker
Paul Patrick Quinn	....	visual effects producer
Grant Radziwill	....	model maker
Glenn Robbins	....	assistant modelmaker
Alison Ross	....	model maker
Elan Soltes	....	visual effects supervisor
Peter Stephen	....	assistant modelmaker
David Tremont	....	miniatures supervisor
Tony Voevodin	....	model maker
Angie Wills	....	visual effects coordinator
Marusha Xeros	....	visual effects coordinator

Stunts
Shea Adams	....	stunt performer
Chris Anderson	....	stunt coordinator
Mick Corrigan	....	stunt performer
Scotty Gregory	....	stunt performer
Puven Pather	....	stunt performer
Mick Van Moorsel	....	stunt performer
Ryctor	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Sean Aston	....	grip: dive unit
Jason Binnie	....	second assistant camera
Phil Cross	....	underwater director of photography
David Elmes	....	first assistant camera
Ross Isaacs	....	underwater camera operator
Andrew Jerram	....	first assistant camera: underwater unit
Peter McDougall	....	underwater camera operator
Daryl Pearson	....	best boy

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Andrea Hood	....	key costumer

Editorial Department
John Hoffhines	....	assistant editor
Susan J. Vinci	....	assistant editor: visual effects

Music Department
Fernand Bos	....	music editor
David Franco	....	music supervisor
Lolita Ritmanis	....	orchestrator
Jonathan Sacks	....	orchestrator

Other crew
Russell Boyd	....	location manager
Judy Hallin	....	assistant to producer
Sheryl Hayward	....	production coordinator: Los Angeles
Wade Krawczyk	....	assistant armourer
Toni Pearson	....	assistant accountant
Jenny Quigley	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Frederick S. Pierce Company
• Village Roadshow Pictures

Distributors

• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1997) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Arcade Movie Company (199?) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Bridge Entertainment Group (2002) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Cannes Home Vídeo (????) (Brazil) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (USA) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Rising Sun Pictures (visual effects)

Other Companies

• Juniper Post  sound post-production

Also Known As:

Runtime:

Brazil:158 min | 60 min (3 episodes)

Country:

USA | Australia

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Australia

Company:

Frederick S. Pierce Company

Goofs:

Anachronisms: As Thierry Arronax makes his speech from the ship's gangway, a woman waives a U.S. flag with the stars in the pattern that became official in 1890 or 1896. The film is set in 1886.

Quotes:

Captain Nemo:The surface... I never thought I'd want to see it so badly.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1999)

overlong and boring

jules verne makes imaginative books, but let's face it, the attempts to move them to the big screen are destined to fail. especially if you're lacking money. jules had such wild ideas that they cannot be produced anywhere but inside the readers mind.

this particular one has a great cast, but the mini way too long compared to the boredom it arouses. i had to use three days to watch it because i kept falling asleep.

the special effects look amateurish, and all the intensity from the book has vanished somewhere in the production. all i felt about it was a little claustrophobia.

a tip to the crew: you should have asked the champ, kevin costner, he could have probably told that it's not automatically an epic if you make it long. you need some events, too, you know.