''Jules Verne's Mysterious Island'' is a 2012

adventure film The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...

directed by

Mark Sheppard Mark Andreas Sheppard is an English actor and musician. Sheppard is known for playing the demon/King of Hell Crowley on ''Supernatural'' and for his recurring roles as lawyer Romo Lampkin on the ''Battlestar Galactica'' reboot, Interpol inves ...

, very loosely based on

Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...

's 1875 novel of the same name (''L'Île mystérieuse''). It premiered on Syfy on February 11, 2012.Collider.com
/ref> The film was released on DVD on May 29, 2012.

Plot summary

During the American Civil War, five northern POWs escape by hijacking a gas balloon. Drifting through the night, they awaken to find themselves marooned on a desert island, but they are not alone.

Cast

Gina Holden Gina Holden (born March 17, 1975) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Coreen Fennel in '' Blood Ties'', Dale Arden in ''Flash Gordon'', Monica Eaton in '' Suits'' and Shea Allen in ''Harper's Island''. Early life Gina Holden ...

as Julia "Jules" Fogg *

Lochlyn Munro Lochlyn Munro (born February 12, 1966) is a Canadian actor. His most notable film roles include ''A Night at the Roxbury'' (1998), ''Scary Movie'' (2000), ''Freddy vs. Jason'' (2003), ''White Chicks'' (2004), ''The Predator (film), The Predator ...

as Captain

Cyrus Harding Cyrus Smith (named Cyrus Harding in some English translations) is one of the protagonists of Jules Verne's 1875 novel ''The Mysterious Island''. He is an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is a very skilled man and a fine ...

Pruitt Taylor Vince Pruitt Taylor Vince (born July 5, 1960) is an American actor. Often classified as a character actor, he made his film debut with a supporting role in '' Angel Heart'' (1987). After supporting roles in the films ''Mississippi Burning'' (1988), ' ...

as Gideon Spillett * Susie Abromeit as Abby Fogg * W. Morgan Sheppard as

Captain Nemo Captain Nemo (; also known as Prince Dakkar) is a character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's science-fiction books, ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' (1870) and '' The Mysterious Is ...

as young Captain Nemo *

J. D. Evermore J. D. Evermore (also credited as JD Evermore) is an American actor. He is known for playing the role of Thomas Silby in '' Treme'', Detective Lutz in ''True Detective'', Harley in '' The Walking Dead'', Carl Daggett in '' Rectify'', Holt in ''Mag ...

as Bonaventure Pencroft * Caleb Michaelson as Hebert Brown * Edrick Browne as Neb Nugent * Lawrence Turner as

Tom Ayrton Tom Ayrton is a fictional character who appears in two novels by French author Jules Verne. He is first introduced as a major character in the novel '' In Search of the Castaways'' (1867–1868). He then reappears in a later novel, '' The Myster ...

References

External links

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''Jules Verne's Mysterious Island'' at AllMovie
* 2012 television films 2012 films Films based on The Mysterious Island Films set in 1865 2010s films about time travel Science fantasy films 2010s adventure films Syfy original films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films English-language adventure films {{2010s-adventure-film-stub