The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a 2003 dieselpunk superhero film loosely based on the first volume of the comic book series of the same name. 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. As with the source material, the film features prominent pastiche and crossover themes set in the late 19th century. The movie was the final live-action acting role for Connery before his retirement in 2006 and death in 2020.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 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. 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. The film grossed over USD 179 million worldwide at the box office, rental revenue of USD 48. 6 million, and DVD sales as of 2003 at USD 36. 4 million. As with the source material, the film features prominent pastiche and crossover themes set in the late 19th century. 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 League travels to Venice in Nemo’s submarine, the Nautilus, but they soon deduce there may be a mole on board when a camera’s flash powder residue is found in the wheelhouse and one of Jekyll’s transformation formulas disappears.
They then capture Edward Hyde in Paris, who transforms back into his alter ego, Dr. HenryJekyll, and joins the League after being offered amnesty. The surviving League members recall how a witch had blessed Quatermain for saving his village, promising him that he would never let him die. They eventually kill Mina Harker and expose Professor James Moriarty, who flees but is shot by Tom Sawyer and taken by Moriarty to the icy water of Reichenbach Falls, where he drowns in a pool of ice. In the end, the League defeats the Fantom, who is unmasked as M. Dorian, the traitor who has been collecting physical elements of the League to create a heavily armed version of the nautilus. The movie was the final live-action acting role for Connery before his retirement in 2006 and death in 2020, It was released on 11 July 2003 in the United States, and 17 October 2003 in Britain, and it was the first time the League had been featured in the UK since the release of The Avengers in 1998. It has been released on Blu-ray and DVD in the U.S. and Canada.
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