Differences From Source Material
The characters of Gertrude the duck, Professor and Carla Goteborg, and Count Saknussem are not present in Verne's novel. Also, Alec (Axel in the novel) is Lindenbrook's (Liedenbrock) nephew, and they live in Hamburg (Germany), not Edinburgh.
The whole part of Atlantis is also only in the film. In the book there are sea-creatures and elephants with a giant man, not lizards as in the film.
The lava rock and plumb bob which instigate the adventure are unique to the film - in the novel Professor Lidenbrock translates a recently-acquired manuscript
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