Henry Jekyll, and joins the League after being offered amnesty. They then capture Edward Hyde in Paris, who transforms back into his alter ego, Dr. Secret Service Agent Tom Sawyer, fends them off. The Fantom and his assassins attack but the League, aided by U.S. The League travels to the London Docklands to recruit Dorian Gray, Mina's former lover who is immortal due to a missing cursed portrait. To prevent this, M is forming the latest generation of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, consisting of Quatermain, Captain Nemo, vampire chemist Mina Harker, and invisible thief Rodney Skinner. In London, Quatermain meets " M", who explains that the Fantom plans to start a world war by bombing a secret meeting of world leaders in Venice. Quatermain at first refuses until a group of assassins is sent to kill him, resulting in the death of his longtime friend, Nigel. The British Empire sends Sanderson Reed to Kenya Colony to recruit adventurer and hunter Allan Quatermain, who had retired following the death of his son. Then they kidnap several German scientists while blowing up a zeppelin factory. 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. 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. 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. Wells, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. It features an assortment of fictional literary characters appropriate to the period who act as Victorian era superheroes. It was Connery's final role in a theatrically released live-action film before his retirement in 2006 and death in 2020.Īs with the comic book source material, the film features prominent pastiche and crossover themes set in the late 19th century. 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. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, it was released on 11 July 2003 in the United States, and 17 October in the United Kingdom.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, also promoted as LXG, is a 2003 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.
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