NEW YORK, NY, October 30, 2023 - AMC Networks announced today that it has licensed the U.S. and Canadian linear and streaming rights to Nautilus, a 10-episode live-action series inspired by Jules Verne's beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, from Disney Entertainment. The series will air on AMC and AMC+ as a special television event in 2024. Nautilus tells the origin story of the iconic Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.
It was announced in August 2023 that Disney Plus canceled the upcoming TV shows even though it has already been filmed as part of Disney's cost-reduction strategy, which involves cutting $3 billion in non-sports content.
A reimagining of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) which was initially set to be a remake with David Fincher set to direct and Brad Pitt set to star in it. It was in pre-production since 2010 but was continually pushed out. In 2013, Pitt announced that he would not be a part of the production.
This show was initially set to be a movie and was to be filmed in Queensland, Australia. Since production got canceled, production on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) began in its place and took advantage of all the tax break incentives offered by the government to film there.