{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/HughBonneville.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14087\" title=\"HughBonneville\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/HughBonneville-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>Last year at this time we were talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/16\/fincher-diving-20000-leagues-under-the-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">some of<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/17\/a-third-20000-leagues-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">various adaptations <\/a>of Jules Verne&#8217;s classic, and public domain, adventure <em>20,000 Leagues Under The Sea<\/em>. Well it turns out that one project we didn&#8217;t know about appears to be the one actually setting sail first.<\/p>\n<p>British actor Hugh Bonneville has been cast as Captain Nemo in a new film from Shoreline Entertainment. Described in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/downton-abbey-star-hugh-bonneville-188499\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> article that broke the news as a &#8220;steampunk tale,&#8221; the film will actually serve as a sequel to Verne&#8217;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<p>The 3D film will be directed by Pearry Teo, who recently directed the direct-to-SyFy Channel<em> Witchville In China<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While this does sound like a fun concept for a film, I&#8217;m sure that Verne purists will have some concerns. According to Verne&#8217;s sequel, <em>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<p>I wonder if the internet activists who had gotten upset with the Caucasian casting in <strong>The Last Airbender<\/strong> and the planned live action adaptation of the classic anime <strong>Akira <\/strong>will speak out about this as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Nemo will team-up with President Grant to stop an evil genius.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/16\/hugh-bonneville-to-set-sail-as-captain-nemo\/\" title=\"Hugh Bonneville to Set Sail As CAPTAIN NEMO\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2774,3738,3739],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-20000-leagues-under-the-sea","8":"tag-captain-nemo","9":"tag-hugh-bonneville"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14085"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=14085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}