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| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | |
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| Directed by | Stephen Norrington |
| Screenplay by | James Dale Robinson |
| Based on | The League of Boggling Gentlemen by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill |
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| Cinematography | Dan Laustsen |
| Edited by | Paul Rubell |
| Music by | Trevor Jones |
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| Distributed past | 20th Century Fox |
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| Running time | 110 minutes[1] |
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| Language | English language |
| Upkeep | $78 million[three] |
| Box office | $179.three million[iii] |
The League of Boggling Gentlemen , too promoted as LXG , is a 2003 dieselpunk superhero flick loosely based on the commencement volume of the comic book serial of the same name by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, information technology was released on eleven July 2003 in the Us, and 17 Oct 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 the final live-action acting role for Connery before his retirement in 2006.
Equally with the comic book source material, the film features prominent pastiche and crossover themes[4] set in the late 19th century. Information technology features an assortment of fictional literary characters appropriate to the menstruation who act as Victorian era superheroes. Information technology draws on the works of Jules Verne, H. Chiliad. 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 movie.
It received mostly unfavorable reviews but was financially successful, grossing over $179 million worldwide in theaters, and earning rental revenue of $48.six 1000000 and DVD sales (as of 2003) of $36.4 1000000, against its $78 million upkeep.[5]
Plot [edit]
In 1899, a terrorist group led by the Fantom breaks into the Bank of England to steal Leonardo da Vinci's blueprints of Venice's foundations. Then they kidnap several German scientists while blowing upward a zeppelin manufacturing plant.
The British Empire sends Sanderson Reed to Kenya Colony to recruit charlatan and hunter Allan Quatermain, who had retired following the death of his son. Quatermain at showtime refuses until a grouping of assassins is sent to kill him, resulting in the death of his longtime friend, Nigel. In London, Quatermain meets "Grand", who explains that the Fantom plans to start a world state of war by bombing a secret coming together of globe leaders in Venice. To prevent this, Thousand is forming the latest generation of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, consisting of Quatermain, Captain Nemo, vampire pharmacist Mina Harker, and invisible thief Rodney Skinner.
The League travels to the London Docklands to recruit Dorian Gray, Mina'southward former lover who is immortal due to a missing cursed portrait. The Fantom and his assassins set on but the League, aided by U.South. Secret Service Agent Tom Sawyer, fends them off. Gray and Sawyer bring together the League. They then capture Edward Hyde in Paris, who transforms back into his alter ego, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and joins the League subsequently being offered amnesty. The League travels to Venice in Nemo'south submarine, the Nautilus, simply they shortly deduce at that place may exist a mole on board when a camera's flash powder residue is found in the wheelhouse and one of Jekyll's transformation formulas disappears. Suspicion falls on the missing Skinner.
The Nautilus arrives in Venice just every bit the bombs detonate, causing the Piazza San Marco and the rest of the city to start collapsing. Sawyer uses Nemo's automobile to cease the destruction, while Quatermain confronts the Fantom, who is unmasked equally Thousand. Dorian, the traitor, murders Nemo's first mate Ishmael and steals the Nautilus 's exploration pod. M and Dorian leave a phonograph recording for the League declaring that their true goal is to ignite the globe state of war, and that Dorian has been collecting physical elements of the League to create a heavily armed version of the Nautilus, invisible spies, vampire assassins, and Hyde-like soldiers, and to sell the superhuman formulas off to the highest bidder. The Nautilus is damaged by bombs hidden on board, simply Hyde saves it past draining the flooded engine rooms. Skinner secretly messages the League, informing them that he has sneaked aboard the exploration pod and telling them to follow his heading.
The League reaches northern Mongolia where it reunites with Skinner and plots to destroy M's factory with explosives. Nemo and Hyde rescue the scientists and their families while fighting defeating Dante who overdosed on the Hyde formula, Skinner sets the explosive charges, and Mina battles and eventually kills Dorian by exposing him to his portrait. Quatermain and Sawyer face up Chiliad and place him as Professor James Moriarty, longtime archenemy of genius detective Sherlock Holmes who had inverse identities following his declared death at the Reichenbach Falls. Sawyer is taken hostage by an invisible Reed; Quatermain shoots the latter, only to be fatally stabbed by Moriarty. Moriarty flees merely Sawyer shoots and kills him and the formulas sink into the icy water. Quatermain then dies.
Quatermain is cached beside his son in Kenya. The League recall how a witch doctor had blest Quatermain for saving his village, promising that Africa would never allow him dice. The remaining League members—Nemo, Mina, Skinner, Jekyll, and Sawyer—depart, agreeing to keep using their powers for adept in the coming 20th century. The witch doctor arrives and performs a ritual that summons an unnatural storm, with a bolt of lightning hitting a burglarize Sawyer left on Quatermain's grave.
Bandage [edit]
- Sean Connery as Allan Quatermain, an adventurer and hunter.
- Naseeruddin Shah as Captain Nemo, the captain of the Nautilus.
- Peta Wilson every bit Dr. Mina Harker, a chemist with vampire abilities post-obit an run into with Count Dracula.
- Tony Curran as Rodney Skinner, a gentleman thief who got his hands on Griffin's invisibility serum.
- Stuart Townsend as Dorian Gray, a homo who is immortal due to his aging film and is Fantom'due south double amanuensis.
- Shane West as Tom Sawyer, an agent from the United States that aids the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
- Jason Flemyng as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
- Richard Roxburgh every bit The Fantom / "M" / Professor James Moriarty, an old enemy of Sherlock Holmes. As "Fantom", he leads a terrorist system. As "G", he claims to exist working for the British Empire.
- Tom Goodman-Hill as Sanderson Reed, the henchman of Professor Moriarty.
- David Hemmings equally Nigel, a friend of Allan Quartermain.
- Terry O'Neill as Ishmael, Captain Nemo'southward first mate.
- Max Ryan every bit Dante, Fantom'due south 2d-in-command.
- Rudolf Pellar as Karl Draper, i of the scientists kidnapped past Fantom.
- Smeere-Ab Etmet Yohannes every bit a witch md
Production [edit]
Writing [edit]
Because 20th Century Play a joke on was unable to secure the rights to the eponymous grapheme of H. M. Wells' 1897 novel, the script referred to "The Invisible Man" every bit "An Invisible Man", and his name was changed from Hawley Griffin to Rodney Skinner. The Fu Manchu graphic symbol was dropped. At the request of the studio, the character of Tom Sawyer was added to increment the film's appeal to American audiences and the youth demographic, a move that producer Don Murphy initially dismissed as a "stupid studio annotation" just later described as "brilliant".[half-dozen]
Casting [edit]
Afterwards previously turning downwardly the roles of the Builder in The Matrix trilogy and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the latter of which would reportedly take earned him $450 million, Connery agreed to appear as Quatermain for $17 meg, a sum that left the filmmakers with little flexibility to attract other loftier-profile stars for the ensemble cast.[vii] [8] [6]
A character named Eva Draper (Winter Ave Zoli), daughter of German scientist Karl Draper, remained visible in promotional materials despite non appearing in the film'southward concluding cut.[ citation needed ]
Filming [edit]
Main photography took place in Hungary,[9] Republic of malta, and the Czechia.[ten]
The studio pressured filmmakers for a summer release considering Primary and Commander was slated for fall release. The product encountered delays when a special furnishings set failed to perform equally intended, forcing the filmmakers to quickly look for some other effects shop.[6]
Connery reportedly had many disputes with director Stephen Norrington.[xi] Norrington did not attend the opening party and, on existence asked where the director could be, Connery is said to have replied, "Check the local aviary". Norrington reportedly did not like the studio supervision and was "uncomfortable" with large crews.[six]
Lawsuit [edit]
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 non appeared in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel series,[12] the accommodate accused Flim-flam of soliciting the series as a smokescreen.[13] [14] [xv] Pull a fast one on denied the allegations as "absurd nonsense"[fifteen] merely settled out of court, a decision Alan Moore believed "denied [him] the hazard to exonerate" himself.[16]
Reception [edit]
Box part [edit]
The film opened at #2 backside Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.[17] The League of Boggling Gentlemen grossed an estimated $66,465,204 in Canada and the United states, $12,603,037 in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, and $12,033,033 in Spain. Worldwide, the film took in $179,265,204.[18]
Critical response [edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an blessing rating of 17% based on reviews from 185 critics, with an average rating of iv/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Just ordinary. LXG is a great premise ruined by poor execution."[19] On Metacritic it has a score of 30% based on reviews from 36 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[twenty] Audiences polled past CinemaScore gave the film an average class of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.[21]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Dominicus-Times gave the picture 1 star out of a possible four: "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen assembles a fantabulous team of heroes to battle a plan for world domination, and so, but when information technology seems nearly to become a real aspersion of an adventure movie, plunges into ... inexplicable motivations, causes without effects, effects without causes, and general lunacy".[22]
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave it 1 out of 4 and wrote: "Except for Connery, who is every inch the king of beasts in winter, nothing here feels authentic".[23]
Owen Gleiberman of Amusement Weekly gave the film a class "C-".[24] Empire magazine, giving it ii stars out of v while criticizing its exposition and lack of character depth, saying it 'flirts dangerously shut with i-star discredit'.[25]
Creators' response [edit]
In an interview with The Times, Kevin O'Neill, illustrator of the comics, said he believed the film failed (with the critics) because it was not respectful of the 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 comic volume version of Allan Quatermain was a lot better than the movie version and that marginalising Mina Murray as a vampire "inverse the whole balance".[26] The comics' author, Alan Moore, was cynical of the film from early in its development, seeing that the 2 works bore petty resemblance, and distanced himself from the motion picture. He said that he could turn a profit from the pic while leaving the original comics untouched: "As long every bit I could distance myself by non seeing [information technology], assured no one would misfile the two. This was probably naïve on my part".[27]
Connery claimed that the film's production and final quality convinced him to permanently retire from filmmaking. He told The Times: "It was a nightmare. The experience had a great influence on me, it fabricated me recollect almost showbiz. I get fed upwards dealing with idiots".[28] Norrington and screenwriters O'Neill and James Dale Robinson have not worked on a alive activity characteristic-length motion-picture show equally of 2021.
In other media [edit]
The League of Boggling Gentlemen earned a total of $48,640,000 in rentals with $xiv,810,000 from video rentals and $33,830,000 from DVD rentals.[29] DVD sales meanwhile gathered revenue of $36,400,000.[29]
A novelization of the movie was written by Kevin J. Anderson and released presently before the movie.
The soundtrack album was also released internationally but non in the United States.
A Blu-Ray edition was re-released in October 2018 from Fabulous Films.[30]
Cancelled reboot [edit]
The Tracking Board reported in May 2015 that 20th Century Flim-flam and Davis Entertainment had agreed to develop a reboot with hopes of launching a franchise. The report stated that a search was underway for a manager who could assist "keep to develop the reboot".[31] John Davis told to Collider in an interview that the reboot would be a female-centric moving-picture show.[32] However, plans for a reboot were scrapped later on the acquisition of 20th Century Fox past Disney in 2019.[33]
Meet also [edit]
- Penny Dreadful – a Showtime series involving famous figures from literary horror
- Anno Dracula – a mashup novel past Kim Newman
- Bungou Stray Dogs – a Japanese manga with a like premise
- Persona 5 – a Japanese video game that features pop fictional and historical outlaws and gentleman thieves equally chief characters' initial Personas
References [edit]
- ^ "THE LEAGUE OF Boggling GENTLEMEN (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. July 11, 2003. Retrieved August xvi, 2015.
- ^ "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". British Moving picture Establish. London. Archived from the original on September 30, 2008. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
- ^ a b "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) – Box Office Mojo". boxofficemojo.com.
- ^ Tobey, Matthew. "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Allmovie . Retrieved November 10, 2012.
- ^ "The Numbers: Box Office Data". Retrieved October four, 2014.
- ^ a b c d John Horn (July 14, 2003). "Heroic effort?; Audiences are the last hurdle for a beleaguered 'League'". Los Angeles Times. p. E1.
- ^ Norrington, Stephen (Director) (December xvi, 2003). The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (DVD). The states: 20th Century Fox.
- ^ "Sean Connery lost $450m refusing Gandalf role". NZ Herald. November 21, 2012. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved Jan 22, 2020.
- ^ "Hungary plans huge studio, luring movie world". Los Angeles Times. REUTERS. June iv, 2004.
- ^ Bill Desowitz. "Movies; Bonds, James Bonds; Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan: 007s who've saved the globe in her majesty's service :[Home EDITION]. " Los Angeles Times. November 17, 2002, Eastward.6. Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Cameron, Stuart (30 September 2004). "Has Sean Fabricated His Last Motion-picture show?: Mystery as 007 Legend Quits Film Office", Daily Mirror (SCOTS Edition), London (United kingdom), Page 9. Archived re-create
- ^ Barber, Nicholas, "Notices: Movie theatre opening this week". The Independent on Sunday (London); Oct 26, 2003; p. 39
- ^ "Gentlemen lands Fox in $100m lawsuit", Saturday, September 27, 2003. Calcutta Telegraph.
- ^ "Producer and Writer File $100 Million Lawsuit Against 20th Century-Pull a fast one on", September 25, 2003. Business Wire. Archived on 2008-05-28.
- ^ a b "Studio sued over superhero flick". BBC. September 26, 2003. Archived from the original on May sixteen, 2008. Retrieved May 16, 2008.
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- ^ "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on July 8, 2015. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
- ^ "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Foreign Gross". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
- ^ "The League of Boggling Gentlemen". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
- ^ "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- ^ "LEAGUE OF Extraordinary GENTLEMEN, THE (2003) B-". CinemaScore. Archived from the original on Dec xx, 2018.
- ^ Roger Ebert (2003). "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved January 1, 2020.
- ^ Travers, Peter (July 11, 2003). "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Rolling Stone.
- ^ Owen Gleiberman (2003). "The League of Boggling Gentlemen". Entertainment Weekly.
- ^ Danny Graydon (2003). "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Empire . Retrieved January i, 2020.
- ^ Vaughan, Owen (February 25, 2009). "Interview: Kevin O'Neill reveals the secrets of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Align Police". Times Online. Times Newspapers Limited.
They changed the whole rest past marginalising Mina and making her a vampire.
(registration required) - ^ Johnston, Rich (May 23, 2005). "Lying in the Gutters". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on January six, 2014. Retrieved January vii, 2006.
- ^ "What Went Wrong: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". www.boxofficeprophets.com . Retrieved January 22, 2020.
- ^ a b "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Box Office Data, Movie News, Cast Data". The Numbers. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
- ^ "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". FabulousFilms.com.
- ^ "{TB Exclusive} Fox Enters Development on "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" Reboot – The Tracking Board". The Tracking Board. May 26, 2015.
- ^ Goldberg, Matt (August thirteen, 2015). "'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Reboot to Be Female-Centric". Collider.
- ^ Geisinger, Gabriella (August 10, 2019). "Fox movies scrapped forever afterwards Disney's large takeover". Digital Spy . Retrieved July three, 2020.
External links [edit]
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at IMDb
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at Box Part Mojo
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at Rotten Tomatoes
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at Metacritic
- Article at FilmForce about the motion picture
- "Early review of the "LXG" script". Archived from the original on Dec fourteen, 2000.
- Stax's review at IGN of a revised version of the script
- Zone Troopers: Website virtually the different Allan Quatermain and Male monarch Solomon's Mine films
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