‘The Wolverine’ director James Mangold to helm Captain Nemo, ‘20000 Leagues’ project
Director James Mangold has boarded Captain Nemo, an origin story based on Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea that has writer Sebastian Gutierrez (Hotel Noir and The Eye) working on the latest draft.
The Wolverine director, Mangold is prepping the sequel to the superhero film with Hugh Jackman returning and now will navigate Captain Nemo down the line.
Disney has been searching for a way to get a version of this story to the big screen for a long time, most recently when David Fincher was developing it (including a draft by his Seven scribe Andrew Kevin Walker) before he dropped out to direct Gone Girl.
Bryan Singer recently signed on for a directorial outing with Fox for their version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Singer has a script by Rick Sordelet and Dan Studney, based on a story by Singer and those writers.
Production will begin this fall, but since Disney’s film is a true origin story, it might well be different enough to be made in the future.
