Director: Michael Matthews
Long before he became the reclusive commander of the Nautilus, the man known as Captain Nemo had a different life — and this series is the story of how he lost it.
What is Nautilus about?
Drawing on Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the show goes back before the famous submarine ever launched, tracing how its future captain came to build it and why he chose to disappear beneath the waves. Along the way the series brings in a crew of escaped prisoners, stowaways, and reluctant allies who end up sharing his fate, turning what could have been a simple origin story into an ensemble adventure across open ocean. Expect large-scale set pieces alongside a slower-burning look at the loss and defiance that pushed Nemo toward exile in the first place.
Cast & crew
Shazad Latif plays Captain Nemo, joined by Georgia Flood, Céline Menville, Thierry Frémont, Luke Arnold, Jacob Collins-Levy, Damien Garvey, and Cameron Cuffe as the crew and adversaries who share the ship's fate across the season.
Context & significance
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea has inspired adaptations for well over a century, but this series takes the less-traveled route of an origin story, filling in the years before Verne's novel begins rather than retelling it directly. Michael Matthews directs a production built around practical and visual effects meant to sell the scale of a 19th-century submarine and the ocean around it, giving the adventure a period, seafaring feel rather than a modern sci-fi one. Episodes run about 50 minutes, structured as a serialized action-adventure across the season.
Where & how to watch
Nautilus is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, part of a catalog built for Farsi-speaking viewers everywhere. The show's page can be read by anyone without logging in; starting an episode just requires a K-Time account, after which either the Farsi dub or subtitles can be selected before playback.