There, they find a "world within the world" - an eerily beautiful prehistoric land with bioluminescent birds, swirling gas clouds and an underground sea. While trekking, a storm forces the trio into a mountain cave where they stumble down a shaft leading straight to the center of the earth. Stoic and frosty, Hannah scoffs at the idea, but she agrees to guide Trevor and Sean to Max's coordinates - at 5,000 kroner an hour. Like Max, her father was a "Vernian" - someone who believes that the work of Jules Verne was based in fact, not science fiction. The trail leads them to Hannah (Anita Briem), a mountain guide whose late father was a colleague of Max's.
Together, they make their way to Iceland - Max's last known whereabouts. Also eager to learn of his father's fate, Sean insists on tagging along. Realizing that the book contains Max's notes about his last expedition, Trevor decides to retrace his steps in hopes of learning what became of him. In it, they find a dog-eared copy of Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth", annotated with formulas and coordinates in Max's hand. Mopey and sullen, he's more interested in playing video games than hanging out with his bookish uncle.Īlong with Sean, his mother drops off a box belonging to Trevor's brother, Max. Sean's not crazy about the arrangement, either. Trevor's the absent-minded professor type, so much so that he forgets he agreed to spend time with his 13-year old nephew, Sean (Josh Hutcherson).
He's troubled by the disappearance of his brother 10 years ago and by a smarmy department head (Seth Meyers) who threatens to cut his lab's funding. Starring summer blockbuster stalwart Brendan Fraser and directed by visual effects wizard Eric Brevig, it's the first live-action, narrative feature shot in digital 3D ("RealD").įraser plays Trevor Anderson, a seismologist of some sort who monitors fissures in the Earth's crust. "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is a twist on the Jules Verne sci-fi classic.
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