McG To Direct Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo"

January 7, 2009 9:32 a.m. EST

Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Director McG has been tapped to helm a new family film by Disney, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo."

The film will see Nemo, the Jules Verne novel character and not the famous animated fish, creating the Nautilus submarine.

It has been reported that McG will be paid $8 million against the 7% of the film's gross. The studio hopes to start the production this year, as per Variety.

Bill Marsilli will pen the script.

Disney released the original "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" in 1954, that Kirk Douglas starred in. It became the second-higest grossing film that year and won three Academy Awards.