Taglines: A hunter… Live for the chase.
Renowned adventurer Allan Quatermain leads a team of extraordinary figures with legendary powers to battle the technological terror of a madman known as “The Fantom.” This “League” comprises seafarer/inventor Captain Nemo, vampiress Mina Harker, an invisible man named Rodney Skinner, American secret service agent Tom Sawyer, the ageless and invincible Dorian Gray, and the dangerous split personality of Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, also promoted as LXG, is a superhero film loosely based on the first volume of the comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill. It was released on July 11, 2003, in the United States, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. 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 is an action film with prominent pastiche and crossover themes[4] set in the late 19th century, featuring 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.
The film grossed over $175 million worldwide at the box office, rental revenue of $48.6 million, and DVD sales as of 2003 at $36.4 million.[5] It was intended to spawn a film franchise based on further titles in the original comic book series but there was little enthusiasm for a sequel. The film marked Sean Connery’s last on-screen film appearance before his retirement.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Directed by: Stephen Norrington
Starring: David Hemmings, Richard Roxburgh, Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Jason Flemyng, Max Ryan, Peta Wilson
Screenplay by: James Robinson, Alan Moore
Production Design by: Carol Spier
Cinematography by: Dan Laustsen
Film Editing by: Paul Rubell
Costume Design by: Jacqueline West
Set Decoration by: Peter P. Nicolakakos
Music by: Trevor Jones
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of fantasy violence, language and innuendo.
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: July 11, 2003