The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film)

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Stephen Norrington
Screenplay by	James Dale Robinson
Based on	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill
Produced by	Trevor Albert Rick Benattar Sean Connery Mark Gordon Don Murphy Michael Nelson
Starring	Sean Connery Shane West Stuart Townsend Peta Wilson Jason Flemyng
Cinematography	Dan Laustsen
Edited by	Paul Rubell
Music by	Trevor Jones
Production companies	Angry Films International Production Company JD Productions
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	July 11, 2003 (2003-07-11) (United States) October 17, 2003 (2003-10-17) (United Kingdom)
Running time	110 minutes
Countries	Germany United States
Languages	English German
Budget	$78 million
Box office	$179.3 million

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, also promoted as LXG, is a 2003 steampunk/dieselpunk superhero film loosely based on the first volume of the comic book series of the same name by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, it was released on 11 July 2003 in the United States, and 17 October in the United Kingdom. It was directed by Stephen Norrington and starred Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemyng, and Richard Roxburgh. It was Connery's final role in a theatrically released live-action film before his retirement in 2006 and death in 2020.

As with the comic book source material, the film features prominent pastiche and crossover themes set in the late 19th century. It features an assortment of fictional literary characters appropriate to the period who act as Victorian era superheroes. It draws on the works of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Ian Fleming, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Gaston Leroux, and Mark Twain, albeit all adapted for the film.

It received generally unfavorable reviews but was financially successful, grossing over $179 million worldwide in theaters, and earning rental revenue of $48.6 million and DVD sales (as of 2003) of $36.4 million, against its $78 million budget.

Plot

In 1899, a terrorist group led by the "Fantom" robs the Bank of England for Leonardo da Vinci's blueprints of Venice's foundations, kidnaps German scientists, and destroys a Zeppelin factory in Berlin. With the British and German Empires threatening to start a world war, a British emissary named Sanderson Reed travels to Kenya Colony to recruit retired adventurer and hunter Allan Quatermain. He initially refuses until assassins attempt to kill him. After defeating them, he agrees. In London, Quatermain meets Reed's boss "M", who explains that the Fantom intends to profit from the world war and intends to attack the world's leaders at a conference in Venice in three days. To prevent this, M forms the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and recruits Quatermain, Captain Nemo, vampire scienist Mina Harker, and invisible thief Rodney Skinner.

The League travels to the London Docklands to recruit Dorian Gray, Mina's former lover who is immortal due to a missing cursed portrait. The Fantom and his assassins attack the League, but they fend them off with help from U.S. Secret Service Agent Tom Sawyer. After Gray and Sawyer join the League, they capture Edward Hyde in Paris, who transforms back into his alter ego Dr. Henry Jekyll, who also joins the League after being offered amnesty for his crimes. While traveling to Venice in Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, Jekyll experiences trouble controlling Hyde while the other Leaguers deduce a mole is on board after discovering a camera's flash powder residue in the wheelhouse and someone stole a vial of Jekyll's transformation formula. Suspicion falls on Skinner, but he is nowhere to be found.

The Nautilus arrives in Venice as several hidden bombs detonate, causing the city to collapse. Sawyer uses one of Nemo's automobiles to signal him to launch a missile at a key building to stop the destruction while Quatermain confronts the Fantom, who is unmasked as M before escaping again. Dorian shoots Nemo's first mate Ishmael and steals the Nautilus's exploration pod, but Ishmael successfully warns the League of his treachery before dying. While pursuing Dorian, the League uncover a phonograph recording that Dorian left revealing M stole Dorian's painting to enlist his aid in manipulating the League to gain Quartermain's help in capturing Hyde, a skin sample from Skinner, Mina's blood, Jekyll's formula, and photos of Nemo's science while an inaudible audio frequency activates several bombs hidden aboard the Nautilus. Jekyll and Hyde join forces to drain the flooded sections while Skinner secretly messages the League, informing them he snuck aboard the exploration pod.

Using Skinner's directions, the League reaches northern Mongolia and locate M's mountain fortress. They soon regroup with Skinner, who reveals M took the kidnapped scientists' families hostage to force them to mass-produce M's work and he intends to sell a sample case to competing nations. The League split up, with Nemo and Hyde rescuing the scientists and their families, Skinner planting bombs to destroy the fortress, Mina fighting and killing Dorian with his painting, and Quartermain and Sawyer working to capture M, who Quartermain deduces is Professor James Moriarty. Nemo and Hyde complete their task, but are overwhelmed by M's henchman, Dante, after he overdoses on Hyde formula until Skinner's bombs detonate, killing Dante while the pair escape. Quartermain corners M, but an invisible Reed takes Sawyer hostage. Quartermain kills Reed, but M fatally stabs Quartermain before Sawyer kills him in turn. Quartermain dies, wishing Sawyer luck in the new century.

As the League ensure Quatermain is buried in Kenya, they recall how a witch doctor promised him that Africa would never let him die before agreeing to continue using their powers for good. The witch doctor arrives and performs a ritual that summons an unnatural thunderstorm over Quartermain's grave.

Cast

Sean Connery as Allan Quatermain, a legendary adventurer and hunter skilled in tracking, marksmanship, and hand-to-hand combat.
Naseeruddin Shah as Nemo, captain of the Nautilus and a gifted swordsman and inventor.
Peta Wilson as Dr. Mina Harker, a chemist who retains the immortality and vampiric abilities given to her by Count Dracula.
Tony Curran as Rodney Skinner, a gentleman thief who got his hands on Griffin's invisibility serum.
Stuart Townsend as Dorian Gray, Mina's former lover and an experienced duelist rendered immortal by a cursed painting.
Shane West as Tom Sawyer, an American Secret Service agent recruited by Quatermain to assist the League.
Jason Flemyng as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde, a scientist who developed a dual personality after experimenting on himself. In his Hyde form, he has immense strength, endurance, and a love of violence.
Richard Roxburgh as The Fantom / "M" / Prof. James Moriarty, an old enemy of Sherlock Holmes who uses his penchant for disguises and powerful intellect to manipulate the League.
Tom Goodman-Hill as Sanderson Reed, a representative of the British government who recruits Quatermain into the League.
David Hemmings as Nigel, an old friend of Allan Quatermain's who poses as him to drive off "story-seekers". He is murdered by Moriarty's agents.
Terry O'Neill as Ishmael, Captain Nemo's first mate.
Max Ryan as Dante, one of Moriarty’s henchmen who is transformed into an inhuman monster using Jekyll's transformation serum.

Production

Writing

Because 20th Century Fox was unable to secure the rights to the title character of H. G. Wells' 1897 novel, the script referred to "The Invisible Man" as "An Invisible Man", and his name was changed from Hawley Griffin to Rodney Skinner. The Fu Manchu character was dropped. At the request of the studio, the character of Tom Sawyer was added to increase the film's appeal to American audiences and the youth demographic, a move that producer Don Murphy initially dismissed as a "stupid studio note" but later described as "brilliant".

Casting

After previously turning down the roles of the Architect in The Matrix trilogy and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the latter of which would reportedly have earned him $450 million, Connery agreed to appear as Quatermain for $17 million, a sum that left the filmmakers with little flexibility to attract other high-profile stars for the ensemble cast.

A character named Eva Draper (Winter Ave Zoli), daughter of German scientist Karl Draper, remained visible in promotional materials despite not appearing in the film's final cut.

Filming

Principal photography took place in Hungary, Malta, and the Czech Republic.

The studio pressured filmmakers for a summer release because Master and Commander was slated for fall release. The production encountered delays when a special effects set failed to perform as intended, forcing the filmmakers to quickly look for another effects shop.

Connery reportedly had many disputes with director Stephen Norrington. Norrington did not attend the opening party and, on being asked where the director could be, Connery is said to have replied, "Check the local asylum". Norrington reportedly did not like the studio supervision and was "uncomfortable" with large crews.

Connery claimed that making the film, and the quality of the finished product, convinced him to permanently retire from acting in movies. He told The Times: "It was a nightmare. The experience had a great influence on me, it made me think about showbiz. I get fed up dealing with idiots". As of 2023, Norrington and screenwriter James Dale Robinson have not worked on a live-action, feature-length film since The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Lawsuit

In 2003, Larry Cohen and Martin Poll sued 20th Century Fox for intentionally plagiarizing their script Cast of Characters, which they had pitched to the studio between 1993 and 1996. Noting that the scripts shared public-domain characters that had not appeared in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel series, the suit accused Fox of soliciting the series as a smokescreen. Fox denied the allegations as "absurd nonsense" but settled out of court, a decision Alan Moore believed "denied the chance to exonerate" himself.

Reception

Box office

The film opened at #2 behind Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen grossed an estimated $66,465,204 in Canada and the United States, $12,603,037 in the United Kingdom, and $12,033,033 in Spain. Worldwide, the film took in $179,265,204.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 17% based on reviews from 184 critics, with an average rating of 4/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Just ordinary. LXG is a great premise ruined by poor execution." On Metacritic it has a score of 30% based on reviews from 36 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B−, on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one star out of a possible four: "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen assembles a splendid team of heroes to battle a plan for world domination, and then, just when it seems about to become a real corker of an adventure movie, plunges into ... inexplicable motivations, causes without effects, effects without causes, and general lunacy".

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone also gave it one star out of four, writing: "Except for Connery, who is every inch the lion in winter, nothing here feels authentic".

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C− grade.

Empire magazine criticized its exposition and lack of character depth, giving it two stars out of five, and asserting that it "flirts dangerously close with one-star ignominy".

Accolades

The film was nominated for two Saturn Awards for Best Fantasy Film and Peta Wilson for Best Supporting Actress but lost to both The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Finding Nemo respectively.

Creators' response

In an interview with The Times, Kevin O'Neill, illustrator of the comics, said he believed the film adaptation was a critical failure because it was not respectful of its source material. He did not recognize the characters when reading the screenplay, and claimed that Norrington and Connery did not cooperate. Finally, O'Neill said that the movie's version of Allan Quatermain compared poorly to the character in the original comics, and that "the whole balance" was changed by "marginalizing Mina and making her a vampire."

The comics' author, Alan Moore, has generally been dissatisfied with the films based on his works, but thought that the reputations of the originals would not be affected by the quality of the adaptations. "As long as I could distance myself by not seeing them, enough to keep them separate, take the option money, I could be assured no one would confuse the two. This was probably naïve on my part."

Home video

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen earned a total of $48,640,000 in rentals, including $14,810,000 from video rentals and $33,830,000 from DVD rentals. DVD sales garnered $36,400,000.

The movie was rereleased on Blu-ray in October 2018 by Fabulous Films.

In other media

A novelization of the movie, written by Kevin J. Anderson, was published shortly before the film's release.

The soundtrack album, featuring two songs performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, was released by Varèse Sarabande on iTunes, and later online. It was not sold in stores in the United States.

In the season 10 Family Guy episode "Amish Guy", Peter Griffin wants to ride a roller coaster based on the film called The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Ride.

Reboot

The Tracking Board reported in May 2015 that 20th Century Fox and Davis Entertainment had agreed to develop a reboot, in hope of launching a franchise, and that a search was underway for a director. John Davis told Collider in an interview that the film would be "female-centric". These plans were reportedly scrapped after the 2019 Disney–Fox merger. However, The Hollywood Reporter revealed in May 2022 that the reboot was back on track as a Hulu release, with Justin Haythe writing, and producer Don Murphy returning, alongside Susan Montford and Erwin Stoff of 3 Arts Entertainment.

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External links

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at IMDb
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at Box Office Mojo
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at Rotten Tomatoes
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at the TCM Movie Database
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Article at FilmForce about the film
"Early review of the "LXG" script". Archived from the original on December 14, 2000.
Stax's review at IGN of a revised version of the script
Zone Troopers: Website about the different Allan Quatermain and King Solomon's Mine films

v t e Films directed by Stephen Norrington
Death Machine (1994) Blade (1998) The Last Minute (2001) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

v t e The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Alan Moore Kevin O'Neill Bill Oakley Jess Nevins
Volumes and stories	Volume I "Allan and the Sundered Veil" Volume II "The New Traveller's Almanac" Black Dossier Volume III: Century Nemo Trilogy Volume IV: The Tempest
Adaptation	Film Novel Soundtrack
Main characters	Wilhelmina Murray Captain Nemo Allan Quatermain Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde Hawley Griffin Orlando

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Musicals	Dracula (Czech musical) (1995) Dracula: A Chamber Musical (1997) Dracula, the Musical (2004) Dracula – Entre l'amour et la mort (2006) Dracula – L'amour plus fort que la mort (2011)
Comics	Crossover Dracula (Marvel Comics) The Tomb of Dracula X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula Captain Britain and MI13: Vampire State Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos Dracula (Dell Comics) Don Dracula Dracula Lives! Hellsing Sword of Dracula Batman & Dracula trilogy Victorian Undead Wolves at the Gate Purgatori
Video games	The Count (1979) Dracula (1983) Ghost Manor (1983) Castlevania series 1986–present Dracula Dracula (1986) Dracula the Undead (1991) Drac's Night Out (unreleased) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993) Bram Stoker's Dracula (handheld) (1993) Dracula Unleashed (1993) Dracula: Resurrection (2000) Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary (2000) Dracula: Crazy Vampire (2001) Van Helsing (2004) Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon (2008) Dracula: Origin (2008) Vampire Season Monster Defense (2012) Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon (2013) Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy (2013) The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing (2013) Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood (2023)
Pinball	Dracula (1979) Taxi (1988) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993) Monster Bash (1998)
Tabletop games	The Fury of Dracula
Albums	Dracula Dracula 2000 Iubilaeum Anno Dracula 2001 Perfect Selection: Dracula Battle Transylvania Van Helsing
Songs	"Love Song for a Vampire"
Audio dramas	Son of the Dragon

Original characters

Alternative versions of Dracula	Alucard (Hellsing) Count Alucard Dracula (Castlevania) Dracula (Marvel Comics) Count Orlok Soma Cruz
Relatives of Dracula	Alucard (Castlevania) Vampire Hunter D Eva Janus Dracula Lilith Dracula Shiklah Dracula
Other	Blade Count von Count Simon Belmont

Related
Lugosi v. Universal Pictures Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories Count Dracula in popular culture Transylvanian Society of Dracula Dracula Daily Dracula Society Dracula tourism Bibliography of works on Dracula

v t e H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines
Characters	Allan Quatermain Sir Henry Curtis
Sequels and prequels	Allan Quatermain (1887) Maiwa's Revenge (1888) Allan's Wife (1889) Marie (1912) Child of Storm (1913) The Holy Flower (1915) The Ivory Child (1916) Finished (1917) The Ancient Allan (1920) She and Allan (1921) Allan and the Ice-Gods (1927)
Films	King Solomon's Mines (1937) King Solomon's Mines (1950) Watusi (1959) King Solomon's Treasure (1979) King Solomon's Mines (1985) Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986) King Solomon's Mines (2004) Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)
Video Games	Deadfall Adventures
Related	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

v t e Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Films	Dorian Grays Portræt (1910) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1917) Az élet királya (1918) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Dorian Gray (1970) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976) The Picture of Dorian Gray (2004) Dorian Gray (2009)
Adaptations	The Picture of Dorian Gray (1969) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) Penny Dreadful (2014–2016)
Literature	The Happy Hypocrite Dorian, an Imitation A Portrait of Dorian Gray
Stage	Matthew Bourne's Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray (opera)
Inspirations	John Gray "The Oval Portrait"
Related	Dorian Gray (character) "Look Back in Anger" Phantom of the Paradise

v t e Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Characters	David Farragut Captain Nemo Nautilus
Films	Under the Seas (1907) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Mysterious Island (1961) Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
Television series	Tales of Adventure (1952) Captain Nemo (1975) The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo (1975) The Return of Captain Nemo (1978) Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990) Willy Fog 2 (1993) Space Strikers (1995) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000) Nautilus (2024)
Other	The Mysterious Island List of adaptations Journey Through the Impossible (play) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Submarine Voyage (attraction) Tokyo DisneySea attraction The Secret of the Nautilus (video game) Captain Nemo (manga) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (graphic novel) Legend of the Cybermen (audio) "Captain Nemo" (song)

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