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Oh, yes! I love this show! "Are you local?" No, no. Not The League Of Gentlemen. This is The League of EXTRAORDINARY
Gentlemen - something quite different...
Explain. Well, this is a movie based on a classic graphic novel by Alan Moore
(Watchmen, From Hell, V For Vendetta). Moore's story is a fantasy
adventure that involves many famous 19th-Century faces, such as:
Sherlock Holmes, Alan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Dr Jekyll
(and Mr Hyde), The Invisible Man, etc. They all band together to defeat
Fu Manchu (and a surprise villain) to stop an aerial bombing of London
by flying machines.
Wow! Sounds cool! Who's in it? Sean Connery, Peta Wilson, Stuart Townsend...
Hmmm, not quite so cool. So will this be good? I certainly hope so! Apparently the movie is quite a departure from the
book and changes a few aspects, but hopefully the spirit of the thing
will remain. It's being directed by Brit Steven Norrington (Blade), and
features some characters unseen in the original comic, such as: Dorian
Gray, Tom Sawyer, etc.
Great! So, good family fun for the masses then? It will be interesting to see how this movie fares. It's not a
well-known comic adaptation (a la Hulk), it's not a sequel (a la Matrix
Revolutions) and it doesn't really have a massive fan-base (a la
Terminator 3). Also, Alan Moore adaptations have so far been hugely
diluted empty productions - just witness the glib reworking of From
Hell.
Any final thoughts? This movie deserves to succeed. Moore's work is almost always perfect
for the big-screen (but gets chopped to pieces in the script process).
Norrington's a strong director, and Connery still has an allure over
filmgoers. I think LXG will be a surprise hit, perhaps filling a void
between the truly MASSIVE box-office releases this Summer.
Click here for trailer
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