The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

Directed by

Stephen Norrington

Genre

action film, fantasy film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film, vampire film

Country

Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 4,433 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the late 19th century, a team of famous literary characters becomes a secret superhero squad. They must stop a villain from starting a world war using advanced technology.

old-fashionedpulpyfast-pacedadventurouscornyover-the-topnostalgicaction-packed

What happens

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, also promoted as LXG, is a 2003 steampunk/dieselpunk superhero film based on some of the characters in the first volume of the comic book series of the same name by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, although the plot bears very little similarity to that of the comic book. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, it was released on 11 July 2003 in the United States, and on 17 October in the United Kingdom. It was directed by Stephen Norrington and stars Sean Connery, Peta Wilson, Naseeruddin Shah, 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, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Ian Fleming, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Gaston Leroux, and Mark Twain. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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