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Nautilus is not headed to Disney+ after all. Ordered two years ago by the streaming service, the live-action UK series has been cancelled due to cost-cutting measures announced in May by Disney.
Based on Jules Verne’s classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the series tells the origin story of Captain Nemo and his famous submarine, The Nautilus. Shazad Latif, Georgia Flood, Thierry Frémont, Pacharo Mzembe, Arlo Green, Tyrone Ngatai, Ling Cooper Tang, Andrew Shaw, Ashan Kumar, Céline Menville and Kayden Price star in the series.
Deadline revealed the following about the plot of the cancelled series:
In this retelling, Nemo (Latif) is an Indian Prince robbed of his birth right and family, a prisoner of the East India Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces which have taken everything from him. But once he sets sail with his ragtag crew on board the awe-inspiring Nautilus, he not only battles with his enemy, he also discovers a magical underwater world.
In addition to cost-cutting, the cancellation is also tied to the company’s recent strategy of focusing primarily on Disney-owned properties, like the Marvel and Star Wars franchises.
The 10-episode first season of Nautilus has already been filmed, and the show is now being shopped to other outlets.
The Spiderwick Chronicles, another already-filmed fantasy series, is also being shopped elsewhere.
What do you think? Do you want to see Nautilus find a new home? Would you like to see Captain Nemo’s story on the small screen?
I was looking forward to the show as Nautiklus would interest me yet the keep so much going.
It is simple math. Warner Brothers/Discovery is doing the same thing. Dump a show that is already filmed. Eat the loss. The actors do not get their royalties. Disney only gives a **** about whatever they can totally control. They do not care about consumers, just profit.
Giving it to other channels is giving your own content unnecessary competition.
Which begs the question of what the real reason is, especially as the vast majority of production work is complete, at a not so inconsiderable cost.
Tax deductions. First they rob film funds blind. Most countries have film funds set up with their tax income. Then any of the streamers comes by that country, takes as much from those funds as they can get away with, while providing the least amount of work and/or screen time stipulated by those film funds. Then the streamers take their production and scrap it for tax deductions in whatever country they have their HQ in. So they screw tax payers in (at least) two different countries and rob everyone from the already produced content. You would almost think the streamers… Read more »
You’re probably right about the film companies taking as much money from the film tax! After all it was made in the uk and the uk government is a bit of a joke when it comes to saving money for film industry!!
You do what you have to do