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BASED ON JULES VERNE CLASSIC 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, this 10-part Disney+ series will tell the origin story of Captain Nemo (Shazad Latif) and his legendary submarine, which lends its name to the series title. An Indian prince robbed of his birthright and a prisoner of the East India Company, Nemo is determined to take revenge. But when he sets sail with his ragtag crew on board the sub, he battles his enemy and also discovers a magical underwater world.

THIS ANTARCTICA-SET SCI-FI STORY IS BASED ON THE BOOK BY PAUL MCAULEY AND WRITTEN BY STATELESS’S ELISE

MCCREDIE. It’s set in the year 2098, decades after the melting glaciers have given way to a new frontier of resource-rich land, where a generation of settlers from all around the dying world have converged. Austral Ferrado, one of a number of “huskies” – people who have been gene-edited to better withstand the unforgiving climate of the far south – is trapped in a society that has imprisoned her. When her escape plan quickly goes awry, she finds herself desperate and on the run.

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