THE LEAGUE OF
EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
Year: 2003
USA & UK: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Peta Wilson, Shane West, Jason Flemyng, Naseeruddin Shah, Richard Roxburgh, David Hemmings, Tony Curran, Max Ryan, Tom Goodman-Hill, Terry O'Neill, Rudolf Pellar, Winter Ave Zoli, Robert Willox, Robert Orr, Michael McGuffie, Joel Kirby, Marek Vasut, Ewart James Walters, Michal Grun, Robert Vahey, Sylvester Morand, Mariano Titanti, Huggy Leaver, Pavel Bezdek, Stanislav Adamickij, James Babson, San Shella, Ellen Savaria, Riz Meedin, Sartaj Garewal, Neran Persaud, Andrew Rajan, Daniel Brown, Aftab Sachak, Guy Singh Digpal, Harmage Singh Kalirai, Brian Caspe, Robert Goodman, Rene Hajek, Semere-Ad Etmet Yohannes
Director: Stephen Norrington
Countries: USA / Germany
UK: 110 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of fantasy violence, language and innuendo
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate violence and horror
USA Release Date: 11 July 2003
UK Release Date: 17 October 2003
Synopsis
It's 1899 and the world is a dark and ominous place. Tensions between Germany and England are growing and a mysterious megalomaniac called "The Fantom" is provoking war, believing he can cash in on the conflict by selling weapons of mass destruction.
Desperate to maintain peace, an agent of the British government is sent to Africa to fetch the world's greatest adventurer Quatermain (Connery) to lead a team of extraordinary figures with legendary powers.
Quatermain's extraordinary League is comprised of Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), Dracula vampiress Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), an invisible man Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran), American secret service agent Sawyer (Shane West), Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Jason Flemyng). Richard Roxburgh ("Moulin Rouge") plays the League's enigmatic recruiter, M.
The League members are staunch individualists, outcasts in fact, with checkered pasts and singular gifts that have been both blessing and curse. Now they must learn to trust each other and work as a team for the very hope of civilization. With little preparation and no time to lose, they will be transported via Captain Nemo's extraordinary submarine, the Nautilus, to the frontline of defense: Venice, Italy. There, a masked madman known as the Fantom plans to sabotage a conference of world leaders by setting off a domino chain of explosions, sinking the entire city. The threat is catastrophic, the risks are staggering. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has 96 hours to save the world...
Based on the acclaimed comic books by Alan Moore (From Hell) and Kevin O' Neill, the film is directed by Stephen Norrington (BLADE) from a screenplay by James Dale Robinson. Don Murphy (FROM HELL, NATURAL BORN KILLERS) and Trevor Albert (GROUNDHOG DAY, BEDAZZLED) are the producers, and Sean Connery and Mark Gordon (SAVING PRIVATE RYAN) are executive producers. The co-producer is Michael Nelson.
Principal photography on the 20-week shoot occurred almost entirely in Prague, with additional shooting in Malta and Los Angeles.
The two disc special edition DVD features remarkable behind-the-scenes footage from the making of this amazing story. Find out the origins of the outstanding literary characters, take a peek at deleted scenes, make-up and props featurettes, and a 23 minute documentary 'Behind the Fantasy'.
DVD EXTRAS
LXG DVD (One-Disc) Product Details
Language: English
Subtitles: Hard of Hearing English
Original Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (16x9)
Sound Quality: 5.1 / 5.1 DTS
Special Features: Audio Commentary by Producers Don Murphy and Trevor Albert, and actors Jason Flemyng, Tony Curran and Shane West
Audio commentary by Jacqueline West, John Sullivan and Matthew Gratzner
LXG DVD (Two-Disc Special Edition) Product Details
Language: English
Subtitles: Hard of Hearing English
Original Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (16x9)
Sound Quality: 5.1 / 5.1 DTS
Special Features Disc 1: Audio Commentary by Producers Don Murphy and Trevor Albert, and actors Jason Flemyng, Tony Curran and Shane West
Audio commentary by Jacqueline West, John Sullivan and Matthew Gratzner
Special Features Disc 2: Pre Production featurettes:
Matters of Pre-Visualisation
Stills Gallery
Production Documentaries:
Assembling the League
17 Deleted and Extended Scenes
Post-production featurettes:
Behind the Fantasy
European Premieres
3 trailers
12 TV Spots
Posters