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New York Times
15 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Captain Nemo Is Indian? ‘Nautilus' Helps Correct the Record.
In the 1870 novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,' by Jules Verne, the submarine commander Captain Nemo is an often sullen recluse consumed by rage against the imperialist nation that murdered his wife and children. (That would be Britain.) In the 1954 Disney adaptation, in what is arguably his best-known screen representation, Nemo is still sullen, but the object of his outrage is much less clear. Brought to life by the British actor James Mason, this Nemo plays melancholy tunes on his pipe organ, his anger now directed at a 'hated nation' of capitalists and warmongers that seems a lot like Britain, yet goes conspicuously unnamed. There have been dozens of screen adaptations of the adventure classic over the years, from feature films to TV series to radio plays. Despite their differences — and there have been many — a fairly uniform picture of Captain Nemo has emerged: brooding, relatively sedentary (to be fair, this is a guy who spends a good chunk of his time 'under the sea'), 50s-ish, taciturn and almost always white. The hero of the AMC series 'Nautilus,' which premieres on Sunday, is not that Nemo. He is young, for one, his story beginning with the maiden voyage of the Nautilus, decades before he has had a chance to become jaded and sour. He is also an action hero, battling with swords and cannons and rifles, going mano a mano with a giant squid and riding atop a mammoth harpooned whale swimming at full speed. 'I spent most of that day soaking wet on top of this mechanical whale,' said Shazad Latif, who plays Nemo. 'They had to ferry my makeup artist over to me on this little paddle board for redos and touch-ups.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Wall Street Journal
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Nautilus' Review: On AMC, a Nemo Origin Story
A steampunk 'Star Wars' with a dash of Jack Sparrow, the 10-part submarine saga 'Nautilus' is gaudy with pipes, valves, clocks, brass, pewter, swords, guns, anachronisms, a periscope that looks like it fell off a corner of Notre-Dame and a junkyard of sci-fi and action-movie quotations. 'Follow me if you want to live!' commands one very shortlived character, just before she's eaten by a Jurassic-inspired 'slug-lizard fish.' The title craft is piloted through treacherous oceans as if it were the Millennium Falcon. The story's Empire—or Skynet, or Mordor, or Death Eaters—is the British East India Company. This is all very self-aware stuff, and 'Nautilus' is what one might call a big old action-adventure series of Victorian vintage. And, in this case, a prequel: Drawing on the allusions contained in Jules Verne's classic 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,' the AMC series is essentially the origin story of Captain Nemo (Shazad Latif), aka Prince Dakkar, who has a justifiable grudge against the English: He has lost his family and lands to Company violence; he, the engineer Benoit (Thierry Frémont) and a crew of fellow Indian prisoners have developed the Nautilus, an underwater craft that resembles a crocodile on the surface and a shark when it dives, and carries more scrollwork than a Purdey rifle circa 1869 (the year 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea' began serialization). Benoit thinks the ship has been created for exploration, but Company director Crawley (a name with period literary echoes, as well as that of the malignant character played by Damien Garvey) has other plans, mainly to use the cutting-edge craft to seal his company's control of waterways and trading routes. Crawley is surprised to learn that Nemo knows that his name means 'no one' in Latin. But it won't be the last thing that brings him up short. And short of one submarine.
Geek Girl Authority
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
NAUTILUS Sets Out With Humility in a Double-Decker Sneak Peek of Its Premiere
In AMC/AMC+'s Nautilus, Jules Verne's best-known protagonist takes to the sea and its depths, seeking revenge on the forces that stripped him of his birthright, family, and freedom. Starring Shazad Latif as Captain Nemo, the 10-episode series promises sweeping ocean vistas, gripping battles, and no shortage of tight squeezes. The series premieres on June 29 with its first two episodes, 'Anahata' and 'Tick, Tick, Boom,' in which Nemo picks up a prototype submarine and a secretive engineer, respectively. For your consideration, we present two sneak peek clips, one from each of the premiere event's episodes. Image Credit: Courtesy of AMC/AMC+ Nautilus, 'Anahata' Anahata is the heart chakra and translates to 'unhurt, unstruck, or unbeaten,' in Sanskrit. A positive note to kick off a series featuring a motley bunch of enslaved inmates stealing the submarine they're building under duress. RELATED: TV Review: Nautilus Series Premiere In the clip from 'Anahata,' they risk it all to escape with Nemo at the helm. Now, not to guess wildly at the crew's teambuilding potential, but based on the expressions on their faces as he scrapes the sub through some narrow passages, his plan was the lesser of two evils. Even Nemo doesn't look all that confident about their survival. Nautilus, 'Tick, Tick, Boom' Now that they've got a submarine, they'll need some complications. First up, Miss Humility Lucas (Georgia Flood), a trained engineer, scientist, and liar. We learn from the 'Tick, Tick, Boom' clip that she got herself aboard through ignoble means, and Nemo feels she's too valuable to allow to leave. Of course, she's playing him for reasons yet unknown. Whether he knows it or not remains to be seen. Her relationship with Loti (Céline Menville) echoes his with Benoit (Thierry Frémont). As per usual, the secondary characters see things more clearly than those in the thick of it. How Miss Lucas's skills figure into the operations of the sub will be a fascinating twist to the literary source material. Meanwhile, she and Nemo are clearly meant to butt heads for… reasons. Can we feel the claustrophobia setting in already? After all, the central trope of submarine shows is that you really can't get away from other people, no matter how much your survival (or theirs) depends on it. But the question is how much a clever, attractive woman can distract a man bent on vengeance. RELATED: 6 Great Historical Fiction Novels Focused on Real Women From History Image Credit: Courtesy of AMC/AMC+ Fun fact: neither Latif nor Flood is a stranger to literary adaptations. In 2016, Latif portrayed Henry Jekyll (of Jekyll and Hyde infamy) in Showtime's Penny Dreadful Season 3. Last year, Floor took on the role of Savannah Pagonis on Peacock's adaptation of Liane Moriarty's Apples Never Fall . Nautilus premieres on AMC and AMC+ starting Sunday, June 29. 6 Book Recommendations if You Loved OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
Geek Girl Authority
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
Nautilus Archives
Categories Select Category Games GGA Columns Movies Stuff We Like The Daily Bugle TV & Streaming Recaps & Reviews TV & Streaming Shazad Latif stars as Captain Nemo in AMC's Nautilus, the latest adaptation of the Jules Verne classic, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Read our review of the double-episode series premiere.
Bloomberg
15-04-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Trade Tensions With China Clear Path for Salt-Powered Batteries
The idea of making batteries from sodium has been around for centuries. In Jules Verne's 1870 novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Captain Nemo drives an electric submarine powered by salt. But while researchers have experimented for years with using the cheap, superabundant material for power storage, sodium-ion batteries could never match the energy density of other battery types, particularly lithium-based formulas. Now expanding energy needs and global trade tensions mean the long-overlooked technology is finally breaking through. Born out of founder Colin Wessells' doctoral thesis in 2012, Natron Energy Inc. is among the few companies in the world that mass-produce sodium-ion batteries and is the only one doing it in the US. Its first plant, in Holland, Michigan, opened in April 2024 at a cost of $40 million to retrofit an existing $300 million facility, and is set to produce 600 megawatts of batteries annually by the end of 2025, almost enough to power a city the size of San Diego. The company is lining up funding for an additional $1.4 billion factory in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, that would increase its production capacity by roughly 40 times. Natron says that's needed to meet demand from its customers, which include data centers and cloud computing companies, particularly as artificial intelligence sucks up more and more energy. 'Power demand is going to go through the roof,' says Chief Executive Officer Wendell Brooks.
