The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a 2003 superhero film. It is a film adaptation of the acclaimed comic book limited series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore who is also famous for Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. It was released on July 11, 2003 in the United States, was distributed by 20th Century Fox, was directed by Stephen Norrington and starred Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart ...
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a 2003 superhero film. It is a film adaptation of the acclaimed comic book limited series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore who is also famous for Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. It was released on July 11, 2003 in the United States, was distributed by 20th Century Fox, 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 is an action adventure film set late in the late 19th century, featuring an assortment of fictional literary characters appropriate to the period, who act as Victorian Era superheroes. In so doing it draws on the works of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Gaston Leroux and Mark Twain, albeit all adapted for the film. The film adaptation's plot and general atmosphere,...
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