Category: Books
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Adapting 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea part VIII. Guns and robots
There’s a great deal of fascinating technology in Jules Verne’s work, not only Nemo’s remarkable submarine itself, the Nautilus, but also the diving suits the crew use for underwater exploration and the weapons they use. The above image was inspired by my upbringing on industrial Teesside, my comprehensive school would task us with painting the…
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Adapting 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea part VI. The voyage
Verne’s novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea takes the reader on a whistle-stop voyage of adventure around the globe, giving my gamebook app adaptation of the book, Nemo’s Fury a global scope. I can take the player anywhere in the world in the Nautilus. And as I wanted to be reasonably faithful to Verne’s work,…
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Adapting 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea part V. Crew of the Nautilus
Jules Verne was very clear about the crew of Captain Nemo’s submarine, the Nautilus. They are all male, subservient to Nemo and die on the voyage. And the crew dying off during the course of the voyage of the adventure is a gift to a writer, especially as at least one dies in very mysterious…
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Adapting 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea part IV. Captain Nemo.
Genius, billionaire, philanthropist, Captain Nemo continues to entertain and fascinate since his first publication in Jules Verne’s 1870 novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, but most people today will know him from his many film adaptations. Nemo has been played by many actors, such as James Mason, Patrick Stewart and Michael Caine. And as…
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Adapting 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea part III
Designing the Nautilus Every one who adapts Jules Verne’s underwater adventure 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, has to design Nemo’s remarkable craft, the Nautilus. Verne was very explicit about the design of Captain Nemo’s wonderful submersible, the Nautilus. He describes it as ‘a very long cylinder with conical ends. It noticeably takes the shape of…
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Children of Men: Book to film
The Children of Men (1992) by P D James, adapted for cinema in 2006 by Alfonso Cuarón Re-reading this near-future thriller written in 1992 but set in 2021 is a fascinating experience in 2023, not only to gauge how accurate the view of the future is, but also to compare it to the 2006 film…
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Adapting 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Creating the player’s character When adapting Jules Verne’s classic underwater voyage of discovery, I wanted the player to experience the thrill of meeting the legendary submariner, Captain Nemo, his crew, and the three unwitting travellers who are kidnapped by Nemo and whisked around the globe. I also wanted the player to meet Professor Aronnax, his…
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The Last Man (1826) by Mary Shelley
Frankenstein was not Shelley’s only sci-fi novel, but those who feel a vision of 21st century England ravaged by plague and aristocratic power struggles may be a little too close to home, may wish to avoid this apocalyptic dystopian disaster story. Written in the wake of Frankenstein this also features a hero tormented by isolation,…
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1916)
Breathtaking in its pioneering use of underwater photography, this silent two-hour feature is a globetrotting epic of action adventure, romance and comedy, and though contains some problematic elements, it’s an early high water mark in Hollywood spectacle, an impressive early entry into the canon of Jules Verne adaptations, and by far the biggest box office…
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