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- What's the Story? Based on the comic book/graphic novel series by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN is about a team of iconic adventurers from 19th century English literature who are members of a "League" imbued with the task of protecting England.
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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.
Plot. The year is 1898, and Mina Murray is recruited by Campion Bond on behalf of British Intelligence and asked to assemble a league of other extraordinary individuals to protect the interests of the Empire: Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, Dr. Jekyll, and Hawley Griffin the Invisible Man.
- The Series Influenced Quite A Few Other Projects. Being a series that is so full of meta-references, it’s quite fascinating to see how The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has influenced other artistic ventures, such as songs, bands, and publications.
- Three People Took On The Captain Nemo Mantle. Out of all the characters, Captain Nemo was the one who got a standalone comic book series—a trilogy consisting of Nemo: Heart of Ice, Nemo: The Roses of Berlin, and Nemo: River of Ghosts.
- There Is An EastEnders Connection. Most of the characters in the series are borrowed from other works of fiction—be it comic books or television shows, or even musicians.
- An Almanac Detailed The Entire Setting. The second volume of the series had an extremely detailed and vast appendix (called The New Traveler's Almanac) that explained every geographical and thematic setting in Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s comic books.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Directed by Stephen Norrington. With Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran. In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, science fiction, and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.
- Stephen Norrington
- 1 min
Aug 16, 2017 · Sort of like MYSTERY MEN, this is based on a comic that’s a riff on the super hero team stories, but made when X-MEN was the only straight up movie version of that sort of thing. The comic, written by Alan Moore, is apparently very different, thicker in obscure literary allusions and lighter in summer movie type spectacle (sword fights, shoot ...
The kidnapped scientists are forced to make "invisible spies, an army of Hydes, vampire based assassins." In order that they do so, M has held the scientists' families as hostages. The league break into the factory and split up.
Mar 9, 2020 · The movie is still a masterpiece. Admittedly, it isn’t a perfect masterpiece. As an adaptation, it’s almost a complete failure. The only thing it really shares with Moore’s comics is the ...
