![]() ![]() ![]() They begin to suspect there is a traitor in their midst when flash powder from a camera is found in the wheelhouse and a vial of Jekyll's transformation serum is found to be missing. With the League complete, they take off on the Nautilus for Venice. He is hunted down and captured by Quatermain and Sawyer before Jekyll offers his services for reprieve for his crimes as Hyde in London. Henry Jekyll ( Jason Flemyng) his evil form Edward Hyde, a misshapen giant, is found to be terrorizing Paris. ![]() They fend off his forces with the help of American Secret Service Agent Tom Sawyer (Shane West), who was on an investigation of his own and now joins them, but the Fantom escapes. When the group visits the mysterious immortal Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), the Fantom and his men attack. Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), a well-regarded chemist and widow of Jonathan Harker, later revealed to have some vampire-type abilities (but without a vampire's aversion to daylight) with connections to Count Dracula she can summon up a swarm of bats.An invisible thief by the name of Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran), who works for the government in the hope of finding an antidote for the invisibility serum he stole and drank.The Indian pirate and technology genius Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), who commands the world's only submarine, the Nautilus, with Ishmael, the narrator in Moby Dick, as his first mate.M says they can ensure world peace, by stopping him from destroying Venice, where a peace conference is to take place. In this case, they will combat the threat of the "Fantom", the true mastermind of the current crisis. In London, Quatermain meets with the mysterious "M" (Richard Roxburgh), who explains his plan to assemble a modern version of a group of talented individuals known as the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", who have aided the world in times of need. Soon the club is blown up, bringing the threat of war to his beloved Africa, and he agrees. The automatic rifles cause astonishment, as nobody known yet had invented a machinegun which was as small and light as a rifle. The words are hardly out of his mouth when men with automatic rifles burst into the club with attempts to assassinate Quatermain. An emissary of the British government, Sanderson Reed (Tom Goodman-Hill), arrives in a gentlemen's club in British East Africa, to recruit the legendary, but now aged and world-weary, hunter and adventurer Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) to investigate.īecause his adventures had cost the lives of many friends and lovers, two wives, and his beloved only child (a son, who died in his arms), Quatermain's enthusiasm for the British Empire and European wars has waned and he refuses. The British and German Empires are ready to declare war, which many believe will spread throughout Europe. Next is an attack on a Zeppelin factory in Berlin, by the same men, this time dressed as British soldiers. In an alternate version of 1899, the Bank of England in London is attacked by a group of men who appear to be German soldiers using advanced explosives, automatic weapons, and an armored tank. Although financially successful, it was critically panned, and there was little enthusiasm for a sequel. The film was intended to spawn a film franchise based on further titles in the original comic book series. The plot and general atmosphere are very far from those of the original comic book. 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 is an action adventure film set in the late 19th century, featuring an assortment of fictional literary characters appropriate to the period, who act as Victorian Era superheroes. 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 was released on July 11, 2003, in the United States, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a superhero film adaptation loosely based on characters from the comic book limited series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore, who is also famous for Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of GoldĪllan Quartermain and the Temple of Skulls ![]()
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