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  • The Source Material Was Largely Ignored Due To Proprietary Necessities And Executive Overreach on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#6) The Source Material Was Largely Ignored Due To Proprietary Necessities And Executive Overreach

    There is no Tom Sawyer in the graphic novel version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. That was an addition made by Fox, possibly to make the movie more attractive to American audiences.

    What's more, Fox couldn't get the rights to some of the characters, like The Invisible Man. In the movie, he's simply an invisible man - a guy with the made-up name Rodney Skinner - who manages to get his hands on an experimental substance that allows him to become invisible, as opposed to him being the creator of said innovation as The Invisible Man is in the source material. Dorian Grey (Stuart Townsend) was also added, presumably to inject a little more (apparent) youth into the project.

  • Connery Accepted The Role Because He'd Just Passed On Two Successful Films He Didn't Understand on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#4) Connery Accepted The Role Because He'd Just Passed On Two Successful Films He Didn't Understand

    Sean Connery famously turned down the role of Gandalf in the first Lord of the Rings film as well as that of Morpheus in The Matrix. Obviously, from a financial standpoint, these moves were ill-advised at best. But when Connery read the scripts, he just couldn't understand what they were trying to do, so he passed.

    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was no different. Connery read the script, concluded it was another nerdy project, then accepted the role of Allan Quatermain precisely for the same reason he passed on the previous two roles. That proved to be another grand miscalculation. 

  • Production Shut Down For A Full Day Because A Prop Didn't Look Realistic Enough on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#2) Production Shut Down For A Full Day Because A Prop Didn't Look Realistic Enough

    The best example of director Stephen Norrington's tyranny is the time he shut down production for a full day because he felt a prop didn't look sufficiently realistic. This led to one of the many "shouting matches" between Sean Connery and Norrington, one that was even rumored to result in a physical altercation between the two, with some saying they almost came to blows, while others reported they actually did throw punches.

    A stagehand told EW, "I’ve never been on a set as tense as this. Everybody just wants to go home.”

  • Stephen Norrington May Have Even Told Sean Connery To Punch Him on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#3) Stephen Norrington May Have Even Told Sean Connery To Punch Him

    There were a lot of different stories coming out of the set, often contradictory ones about the exact way things went down between Sean Connery and Stephen Norrington. An anonymous crew worker said Norrington provoked Connery, allegedly saying, “I'm sick of it! Come on, I want you to punch me in the face.”

    Connery recalls Norrington simply asking, “Do you want to hit me?” to which he responded, “Don’t tempt me.” There did seem to be some agreement that Connery threatened to have Norrington fired. In the end, it's remarkable they finished the movie together at all.

  • The Producer Bought The Graphic Novel Rights And Started Planning The Movie Before The Books Even Came Out on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#8) The Producer Bought The Graphic Novel Rights And Started Planning The Movie Before The Books Even Came Out

    Part of the large and glaring differences between the graphic novel and the film has to do with a lack of coordination between the studio and Alan Moore, who was still writing the series when Fox set to work on the movie. As a result, Fox pretty much felt they had a lot of freedom in telling the story however they wanted to tell it.

    That said, it still took them a while to write a final script, about which illustrator Kevin O'Neill said, "I don't recognize any of this - the Bank of England, Venice. The character names were similar, but they added Tom Sawyer. It was a bit of an odd thing and I didn't think much more of it... They made the film they set out to make…it's nothing to do with our [League]."

  • Fox Announced In 2015 They Were Making A Film Reboot, Which Remains A Possibility on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#14) Fox Announced In 2015 They Were Making A Film Reboot, Which Remains A Possibility

    First announced in 2015, the last report detailing the status of a The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reboot dates back to 2016, which does not bode well for it actually happening anytime soon. Yet the fact remains that one was in the works. Syfy reported on it at the time, relaying Fox's announcement:

    John Davis is on board to produce through his Davis Entertainment banner. Jayson Rothwell (Silent Night) has been hired to write The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Ira Napoliello and Matt Reilly are overseeing the remake, based on Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s graphic novel of the same name, centering on Victorian-era literary characters such as Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde teaming to fight a common enemy.

    Syfy speculated that Penny Dreadful's success may have inspired the revival of this project, but even that show with a similar setting and themes only lasted three seasons; another bad omen for LXG's fate.

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League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a famous sci-fi action film that was released in 2003. The film is based on comic series of the same name by Alan Moore. Several protagonists are classic characters in 19th-century literary masterpieces. The film tells the story of 7 talented human elites fighting against evil forces. The filming project of the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen is complicated, and the whole filming process is very difficult.

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