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Shazad Latif (“Star Trek: Discovery”) stars as Nemo in his first adventure in “Nautilus,” premiering Sunday, June 29, on AMC and AMC+. Shazad Latif and Georgia Flood in “Nautilus”
Cover Story Under the seas: ‘Nautilus’ embarks on Nemo’s origin story adventure By Sarah Passingham Deep beneath the fabled Pillars of Halvar lies Viking treasure waiting to be plucked from the abyss. The only thing stopping one enterprising prisoner from liberating it is a vessel that can reach it. Inspired by the enduring science fiction novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” by author Jules Verne, “Nautilus,” premiering Sunday, June 29, on AMC and AMC+, tells the story of how Nemo took the helm of the infamous submarine. Portrayed by “Star Trek: Discovery” star Shazad Latif, audiences meet Capt. Nemo in “Nautilus” as a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company. An Indian prince stripped of his status and ripped from his family, Nemo is forced to work for the company, designing the engines of a secret submersible, the Nautilus. In an act of revenge against the people who took everything from him, Nemo plots
to steal the ship and set off on an adventure to retrieve buried riches. With a hastily-assembled crew on board, Nemo leaves the penal colony in the periscope’s rear-view, but the East India Mercantile Company are not willing to let the Nautilus go without a fight. Also starring in the 10-part adventure series are Georgia Flood (“Apples Never Fall”) as hostage-turned-crew member Humility Lucas; Céline Menville (“Emily in Paris”) as Loti; Thierry Frémont (“Das Boot”) as Benoit; Richard E. Grant (“The Franchise”) as White Rajah; Anna Torv (“The Newsreader”) as Revna; and Noah Taylor (“So Long, Marianne”) as Capt. Mogg. It’s nearly impossible to quietly execute a prisoner uprising, and Nemo’s big departure only gives him and his crew a bit of a head start. “She is mine, I want her back,” Director Crawley (Damien Garvey, “The Artful Dodger”) says of the pil-
fered vessel in the trailer. He is talking to the right guy, Youngblood (Jacob Collins-Levy, “Young Wallander”), who tells Crawley: “If you’re looking for someone to bring Nemo back in chains, I’m your man.” Along the way, Nemo and the crew of the Nautilus encounter formidable deep sea creatures and explore the incredible unknown landscape of the ocean floor on the way to their destination of the North East Passage. Chased at sea and on land by those who want either the same fortune they are after or the treasure of the Nautilus, Nemo and the crew must work together to maintain their freedom. “Nautilus” was created and written by James Dormer (“Devils”) and series directors include Michael Matthews (“Love and Monsters,” 2020), Ben C. Lucas (“The Wilds”) and Isabelle Sieb (“Shetland”). Latif, who will be seen next as Edgar Linton in
the buzzy Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman,” 2020) -directed adaptation of the timeless Emily Bronte-penned novel “Wuthering Heights” early next year, spoke to Yahoo UK about portraying a new angle of another well-known character. “It’s very rare you get the origin story of a character who’s usually in the old film — the James Mason [“A Star is Born,” 1954] film and all the iterations of it — he’s a mysterious character,” the “Toast of London” actor explained. “In the book as well, you don’t really know his past, he’s very vague and that’s sort of the thing, but in this we get to explore this very flawed, very complex character who’s on a ship with 10 other brown men, we rarely get shows like that,” Latif continued. Exploring new depths, “Nautilus” premieres Sunday, June 29, on AMC and AMC+.