Daisy Ridley is set to star in a reimagining of the classic Irwin Allen 1960’s series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea for Paramount+, starring and executive producing as scientist Lee Crane alongside writers Akiva Goldsman and Matt Shakman. A writers room is set up, and while there’s no word on release date or cast, hopefully more news shall arrive as we wait out here in the GFFA for news of Daisy’s return as Rey in future Star Wars projects.
Ridley will also executive produce alongside the show’s writer Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) and Matt Shakman (WandaVision, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters), who will also direct. A writers’ room is currently underway, sources close to production told Deadline.
The new Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea series follows brilliant ocean scientist Lee Crane (Ridley), who is pulled into a classified government program after a catastrophic Arctic expedition claims the life of her twin sister. At the center of the program is the USS Seaview, a retro-futuristic submarine found entombed in the ice, marked with symbols from a history that shouldn’t exist, and it powers up only when Lee steps aboard.
Thrust into command of a pressure-cooker crew and an uneasy alliance with government power brokers, Lee leads Seaview on daring undersea missions to contain mysterious forces leaking into our world, all while uncovering a hidden truth about the oceans, an erased chapter of human history, and the once-thought mythical city of Atlantis.