Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 2008 American-Canadian television action adventure film directed by T. J. Scott and starring Rick Schroder, Victoria Pratt, and Peter Fonda.
[2] Scientist, and part-time prizefighter, Jonathan Brock is visited at his home by heiress Martha Dennison.
Years earlier Jonathon had met Martha's husband, Edward, who had given him a fossil which came from a mine in a volcano in the then Russian territory of Alaska.
Martha tells him Edward disappeared four years earlier on an expedition towards the center of the Earth, and she wants Jonathon to find him.
Jonathon's nephew asks to join him a it would boost his career as a journalist, though his fiancee Emily, thinks it as a poor excuse to postpone their wedding.
Jonathan and Sergei find some logs that were clearly cut down by a person using an axe, presumably to make a raft to cross the lake.
They shoot some of the birds, which the plesiosaur eats, distracting it long enough to get away Jonathon says the creatures they have encountered seem to have come from different eras of development and may have escaped to this region and survive the Ice Ages which killed dinosaurs remaining on the surface.
While Abel goes exploring alone, Sergei reveals to Jonathan that he did not go along with Edward when he first came to Alaska because he did not trust him and blames himself for not stopping Mikael from joining the expedition that led to his death.
Edward arrives, appearing to be the tribe's leader, and instructs them to bow and give up their weapons as a native custom.
They believe Edward to be some kind of a god who has brought them prosperity and safety by sharing his wisdom, much of which is based on his study of other civilizations.
They reach the cave to the surface, and Edward lights the dynamite intending to seal the entrance so the villagers cannot follow them.
On the surface they make a small memorial for Edward, who is presumed dead, and decide not to tell the secret of the world below, and to continue their adventures to the East Indies.