{"id":14085,"date":"2011-05-16T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=14085"},"modified":"2011-05-16T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T01:54:09","slug":"hugh-bonneville-to-set-sail-as-captain-nemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/16\/hugh-bonneville-to-set-sail-as-captain-nemo\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Bonneville to Set Sail As CAPTAIN NEMO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last year at this time we were talking about some of<\/a> the various adaptations <\/a>of Jules Verne’s classic, and public domain, adventure 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea<\/em>. Well it turns out that one project we didn’t know about appears to be the one actually setting sail first.<\/p>\n

British actor Hugh Bonneville has been cast as Captain Nemo in a new film from Shoreline Entertainment. Described in the Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> article that broke the news as a “steampunk tale,” the film will actually serve as a sequel to Verne’s original novel and will see Nemo joining forces with President Ulysses S. Grant to face off against an evil genius who is responsible for a series of maritime disasters.<\/p>\n

The 3D film will be directed by Pearry Teo, who recently directed the direct-to-SyFy Channel Witchville In China<\/em>.<\/p>\n

While this does sound like a fun concept for a film, I’m sure that Verne purists will have some concerns. According to Verne’s sequel, The Mysterious Island<\/em>, the literary Nemo is actually the descendant of an Indian sultan who had family members killed by the British during the 1857 Indian Mutiny. While I like Bonneville as an actor, it appears that this film will be continuing the filmic tradition of depicting Nemo as a European.<\/p>\n

I wonder if the internet activists who had gotten upset with the Caucasian casting in The Last Airbender<\/strong> and the planned live action adaptation of the classic anime Akira <\/strong>will speak out about this as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nemo will team-up with President Grant to stop an evil genius.<\/div>\n

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