Frank C. Baxter ("Dr. Research") explaining the history of Hollow Earth theories. The 1959 film Journey to the Center of the Earth is probably the most well known adaptation of Verne's novel. The 1960 film The Time Machine is based on the H.G. Wells novel and features underground-dwelling Morlocks. The 1970 film Beneath the Planet of the Apes is the second film in the Planet of the Apes series and features an underground city inhabited by mutated humans with psychic powers. The 1971 film THX 1138 is an American science fiction film set in a dystopian future in which the populace lives underground and is controlled through android police officers and mandatory use of drugs that suppress emotion, including outlawed sexual desire. The 1973 film Godzilla vs. Megalon involves the seatopians. The 1976 film At the Earth's Core is based on Burroughs' novel. The 1984 film What Waits Below depicts the discovery of a lost race of albino-skinned beings. The 2001 animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire, has the protagonists discovering the survived ancient civilization of Atlantis in the depths of the Earth. The 2003 film The Core in which a team has the mission to drill to the center of the Earth in order to restart the rotation of the Earth's core. The 2004 Japanese horror film Marebito, directed by Takashi Shimizu, references the Hollow Earth hypothesis. The 2005 film The Island is an American science fiction-thriller film directed by Michael Bay, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. The 2008 film Journey to the Center of the Earth The 2008 film from The Asylum called Journey to the Center of the Earth (also called Journey to Middle Earth) features an underground prehistoric ecosystem. The 2008 film City of Ember is the survival story of a fantasy underground city. The 2009 film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs features an underground world where dinosaurs have survived into the Holocene. The 2011 anime film Children Who Chase Lost Voices features a party's journey to Agartha. The 2013 anime film Patema Inverted features a civilization that lives in a system of tunnels and caverns deep underground. The 2019 animated film How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World features the "hidden world," an underground world inhabited by Dragons and accessible by a caldera in the ocean. Hollow Earth is a major plot element of the MonsterVerse film franchise. The 2017 film Kong: