The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Movie Trailer. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. All Critics (179) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (147) | DVD (31) ... the effects and sets are marvellously fantastical and there are one or two neat comical allusions to the heroes' literary roots.
But where's the excitement, the thrills, the tension, the style? Despite Sean Connery and some impressive 19th century gloom, this big-screen translation of Alan Moore's culty comic-book series falls to earth with an incoherent splat. Even if, per Wilde, all art is quite useless, it need not be quite as useless as this. This film is odd, loud, unintentionally funny and quite awful. This isn't a blend of modern and classic so much as a collision. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film) It is an action film with prominent pastiche and crossover themes[2] 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 League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. This article was originally published in November 2003 FIVE MINUTES before we boarded the plane to Africa, Al Sharpton called the group into a circle to pray.
It struck me as a fine idea. Sharpton's plan to lead a delegation of American civil-rights activists into the middle of the Liberian civil war clearly was going to require some divine support. S WORKSHOP: featuring the custom figures and dioramas of sillof. All posters for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Alan Moore. The new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a magical mystery tour through Alan Moore's head. Must Read: League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed.
Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Title: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Date: 1999-present Vitals: A bunch of pulpy public-domain characters from 100 years ago form a super team to fight Professor Moriarty, Fu Manchu, and the Martian invaders from War of the Worlds.
The result? Famous names: Alan "weirdgod" Moore, Kevin O'Neill Crunchy goodness: 5 Spinoffs/Sequels/Copycats: The 2003 movie starring Sean Connery has been known to cause people's eyeballs to turn into projectile shit. Sights you'll never unsee: Mister Hyde rapes the Invisible Man to death — and the gruesome results will make you wish the invisibility trick kept working posthumously. Alan Moore talks - 03 - League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. iFanboy - Episode 58 - Extraordinary Gentlemen. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alex Ross (with a twist) Alan Moore announces new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic, featuring the Mountains of Madness. Anyone who says that Moore is doing the same thing with the characters in LoEG that DC is doing with the Watchmen prequels is missing the point.
Most of the characters appearing in LoEG are in the public domain; they don't belong to anyone, not the creators, not their heirs. H.G. Wells' descendants don't get a royalty for every time he references War of the Worlds or The Invisible Man. More importantly: When Moore says he's "stealing" existing characters, what he really means is that he's reinterpreting them.
The versions of Mina Murray and Allan Quartermain in LoEG are so far removed from their authors' original conception of them as to constitute entirely different characters. The Watchmen prequels, by contrast, are wholly owned by DC; in producing these spinoffs, the company is seeking to shore up intellectual property that it sees as having lain fallow for a quarter century. Alan Moore. Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell.[1] Frequently described as the best graphic novel writer in history,[2][3] he has been called "one of the most important British writers of the last fifty years".[4] He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, Translucia Baboon and The Original Writer.
Moore is an occultist, ceremonial magician,[6] and anarchist,[7] and has featured such themes in works including Promethea, From Hell, and V for Vendetta, as well as performing avant-garde spoken word occult "workings" with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD. Early life[edit] Kevin O'Neill (comics) List of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen characters. Overview[edit]
Allan Quatermain. Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H.
Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its various prequels and sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence. History[edit] Allan Quatermain, having waited until the last minute, orders his men to fire in this illustration by Thure de Thulstrup from Maiwa's Revenge (1888) The character Quatermain is an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader in southern Africa, who supports colonial efforts to spread civilization in the Dark Continent, though he also favours native Africans having a say in their affairs.
In the earliest-written novels, native Africans refer to Quatermain as Macumazahn, meaning "Watcher-by-Night," a reference to his nocturnal habits and keen instincts. Appearance and character[edit] Mina Harker. In the novel[edit] She begins the story as Miss Mina Murray, a young school mistress who is engaged to Jonathan Harker, and best friends with Lucy Westenra.
She visits Lucy in Whitby on July 24 of that year, when schools would have closed for the summer. After her fiancé Jonathan escapes from Count Dracula's castle, Mina travels to Budapest and joins him there. Mina cares for him during his recovery from his traumatic encounter with the vampire and his brides, and the two return to England as husband and wife. Griffin (The Invisible Man) Dr Jack Griffin is a fictional character, also known as The Invisible Man, who appears as the protagonist in H.G.
Wells' 1897 science fiction novela The Invisible Man. In the original novel, Griffin is a scientist whose research in optics and experiments into changing the human body's refractive index to that of air results in his becoming invisible. The character has become an iconic character, particularly in horror fiction, and versions of it have appeared throughout various media. Griffin is a gifted young university medical student with albinism, who studies optical density. He believes he is on the verge of a great scientific discovery, but feels uncomfortable working under his professor.
To finance his experiments, Griffin robs his own father. Now driven insane by his inability to reverse the experiment, Griffin seeks assistance from a tramp named Thomas Marvel. Furious, Griffin vows to kill Kemp. Jack Griffin works for Dr. Captain Nemo. Captain Nemo (in Latin Nobody) — also known as Prince Dakkar — is a fictional character invented by the French science fiction author Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's novels, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874), and makes a cameo appearance in Verne's play Journey Through the Impossible (1882). Nemo has appeared in various adaptations of Verne's novels, including films, where he has been portrayed by a number of different actors.
He has furthermore been adopted by other authors for inclusion in their novels, most notably in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Philip José Farmer's The Other Log of Phileas Fogg. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde.[1] It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often spuriously called "split personality", referred to in psychiatry as dissociative identity disorder, where within the same body there exists more than one distinct personality.[4] In this case, there are two personalities within Dr Jekyll, one apparently good and the other evil; completely opposite levels of morality.
Inspiration and writing[edit] Robert Louis Stevenson. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Wiki. Welcome to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Wiki! This is a wiki about the universe and characters from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, that anyone can edit! The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LoEG) is a crossover steampunk fiction mythology, created by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill.
The comic takes characters from both traditional and modern day literature, and puts them in a single shared universe. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One. Plot[edit] Issue 1: Empire Dreams[edit] For their next assignment, the league travel to Paris and meet with C. Auguste Dupin (a detective from The Murders in the Rue Morgue), to investigate a recent string of violent murders.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II. Plot[edit] Issue 1: Phases of Deimos[edit] On Earth, in the year 1898, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (consisting of Allan Quartermain, Dr Henry Jekyll, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo and Hawley Griffin) arrive in Horsell Common, where a Mollusc spaceship lies at the centre of an impact crater. Issue 2: People of Other Lands[edit] The League meet with MI5 Agent Campion Bond, and debate about what the mysterious craft is and where it came from. A tentacled alien emerges from the craft, and a group of men carrying a white flag descend into the crater to make peace with it, only to be incinerated by a powerful heat-ray from the craft. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier. Black Dossier was released on November 14, 2007.[2] The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century. Structure[edit] Moore has stated that the move from DC Comics/WildStorm/America's Best Comics has been liberating, and that the work on Century is "as if we feel freed from the conventions of boys' adventure comics," allowing for a work that is "a lot more atmospheric," building slowly to "a tremendously bloody climax.
"[4] Chapter 1. What Keeps Mankind Alive? Alan Moore Takes League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to the '60s. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Index. Annotations to League Volume III Chapter One, a. Annotations to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III Chapter One a.k.a. Century:1910 by Jess Nevins Unless otherwise specified, all figures are identified in a clockwise fashion. My apologies to everyone who e-mailed contributions to the annotations since 2009 and never heard back from me.
Annotations to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III Chapter Two, Five League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1969 References That Made Me Smile. World of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. History of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.