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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Plot: Take a group of extraordinary literary figures like Allan Quartermain, Captain Nemo, Dr. Jekyll, the Invisible Man and Mina Harker and put them together to save England from its enemies. Based on the comic by Alan Moore.
News:
13 December, 2002
The teaser trailer rumored to be appearing today in front of Star Trek: Nemesis will not be appearing in theaters. There is no word as to when the trailer will finally appear.
5 August, 2002
A June 6th, 2003 release has been set for the Alan Moore comic adaptation according to Comics Continuum.
10 July, 2002
Jason Isaacs will actually be playing the role of Campion Bond. It had been previously rumored as going to Richard Roxburgh. Roxburgh is still involved in the film, he will actually play the villain The Fantom.
Filming on the movie began last Wednesday, delayed for a couple days due to illness on the part of Connery. Background shots were done on June 28. Numerous warehouses around Prague will be utilized for interior shots.
14 May, 2002
Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned) has been cast as Dorian Gray in the film. Gray didn't appear in the original comic but did appear in its sequel. He is a man who mysteriously does not age.
Also, Jason Flemyng (Snatch) has been cast in the dual role of Dr. Henry Jekyll, a.k.a. Mr. Edward Hyde.
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5 May, 2002
Daily Variety reports that Shane West, star of teen flicks like Get Over It and A Walk to Remember, has been cast as Tom Sawyer. Also reportedly in talks are Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned) as Dorian Gray, and Saffron Burrows (The Deep Blue Sea and Circle of Friends) as ex-vampire victim Mina Harker.
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2 May, 2002
FilmForce received word that Roger Moore is under consideration for the role of British secret service agent Campion Bond. And, yes, that character is an ancestor of James Bond, whom Moore portrayed for many years. It would be interesting to pair Moore with Connery, also a former Bond star. In the story, Campion is responsible for assembling the league.
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3 April, 2002
According to FilmForce, David Thewlis (Dragonheart) is being considered for the role of Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde. He is not locked into the role at this point though. They also report that British comedian Eddie Izzard is being considered for the part of the Invisible Man.
27 February, 2002
Neither Dorian Gray nor Tom Sawyer appeared in the original series of the comic but they will be appearing in the movie it seems. Sawyer will be an adult and now working as a police officer. The logic here is that Twain's sequel to Tom Sawyer was titled Tom Sawyer, Detective so he could conceivably grow up to be a cop. Gray did appear in the sequel comic. He is the title character of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. He is a man who does not appear to age, although his portrait does.
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7 February, 2002
FilmForce is reporting that Connery is now officially signed on to the picture in the role of Allan Quartermain.
Variety is reporting that crews are in Prague this month scouting locations for the film. Shooting should begin in June and continue for 12 or 13 weeks. Morocco and Iceland are also potentiallocations.
28 January, 2002
A bit more detail on the Connery situation emerges at FilmForce. They claim that the role of Allan Quartermain has been offered to him.
25 January, 2002
Sean Connery is apparently in negotiations to star in the film. Negotiations haven't officially started but Connery is very excited to take part in the film.
31 July, 2001
The Last Comic Site got a hold of the second draft of the script and really didn't like what the saw.
And they didn't improve it one iota. Patrick talked about how there was no period dialogue? Forget that. It would have been nice to have some GOOD dialogue. Instead of all the great setup of the main characters, you get them--and then three of them all pine for Mina. This love quadrilateral, as it were, is terrible stuff. The League as a whole is at each others' throats most of the time (although in that bad Hollywood we-need-conflict way, rather than the delightfully organic way that Moore just lets the characters do their thing) and then of course, typical Hollywood, they all find common ground. When Quatermain starts to bond with Tom Sawyer as a surrogate son-father thing, I wanted to claw my own face off. If you managed to take out all of these dreadful "bonding" scenes between characters and the long-drawn out silly action sequences (including one showing Captain Nemo's mastery of martial arts--Jackie Chan as Nemo, anyone?)--the script would end up being about five pages long.
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