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Movie of Extraordinary Gentlemen!

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08:29 / 08.02.02

Apparently, Sean Connery has signed up to play Allan Quartermain, according to this

11:20 / 08.02.02

Ooooh, Leaguey. I wonder who they're gonna get to play Nemo.

odd jest on horn

11:35 / 08.02.02

Robert De Niro?

12:56 / 08.02.02

sounds a bunch of silliness to me.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

06:49 / 09.02.02

Well, it's going to be fairly difficult for Hollywood to totally balls this one up, except in the 'having to explain who Captain Nemo/Quartermain/Mina etc actually are'

09:02 / 10.02.02

Y'know, maybe it's just me, but I can't see Connery as the junked-out Quartermain. I think Richard Harris would've been perfect for that role.

09:13 / 10.02.02

In other LoEG gossip, it has been hinted at that Mina would not be in the movie, and that Tom Sawyer would take her place. Also, the film would take place in America, of course.

09:13 / 10.02.02

So that's the ballsing it up taken care of.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

09:13 / 10.02.02

Also, the Invisible Man is a lovable old codger, stern but with a heart of gold, who learns the meaning of christmas.

10:00 / 10.02.02

This is not right.

10:03 / 11.02.02

As the only possible postive outcome of this, maybe we'll get to see "Alan Moore Vs. Hollywood: THOU HATH FUCKED WITH ME ENOUGH!" in the near future.

They sure are brave .. I mean, the terrifying visage, the gothic knuckle-dusters, the collection of stout sticks, the black magick adeptitude.. I certainly wouldn't want to try screwing up more than one of his major works..

..add some renewed mutterings about a Watchmen travesty and hopefully he'll go beserk..

Our Lady of The Two Towers

10:52 / 11.02.02

quote:Originally posted by E. Randy Dupre:
So that's the ballsing it up taken care of.

Oh, how foolish of me to ever doubt them. Take a perfectly simple concept (and you'd have thought doing it in Victorian London was okay what with 'From Hell' and stuff), take out all the parts that actually give the exercise any point, then slap the rest down on celluloid.

11:03 / 11.02.02

I think moving the Ripper story to Los Angeles may have been a step too far even in the eyes of Mr Hollywood.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

13:59 / 18.02.02

What the comic like?

I've got a hankering for pulp fiction at the moment. Is it any cop?

16:45 / 18.02.02

quote:Originally posted by moriarty:
In other LoEG gossip, it has been hinted at that Mina would not be in the movie, and that Tom Sawyer would take her place. Also, the film would take place in America, of course.

Are you sure about Mina being gone? From what I've heard of the second draft, all the male characters are in love with Mina, and that while she may have been reduced to the standard helpless female in need of saving, she is at least there.

Tom Sawyer being added seems like a mistake. Though I am intrigued that scriptwriter James Robinson (who doesn't suck) had made Dorian Gray a member of the team. That wasn't in the comic, was it?

Here's a script review that pretty much says it's terrible.

yuck!

16:49 / 18.02.02

I'd like to restate that what I had posted was gossip. Unsubstaniated, ridiculous gossip. Nothing more.

And, yeah, what's up with James Robinson?

17:39 / 18.02.02

quote:Originally posted by gridley:
Are you sure about Mina being gone?

At least they're not having Winona Ryder return to the role...

18:00 / 18.02.02

Tom Sawyer? What exactly makes him extraordinary? He's some punk kid. If this Tom Sawyer thing is real, they better pick somebody with a real southern accent to play him.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

22:46 / 18.02.02

I see you're from Tennessee. I lived there myself for quite some time, in the Nashville area. Whereabouts are you?

By "real southern accent" do you mean the popular accent seen nowadays in the American south, or what it was during Tom's age, which would be more of a sort of slow Foghorn Leghorn kind of accent, real Antebellum Southern Plantation Owner.

22:50 / 18.02.02

I live in the Clarksville / Fort Campbell area which is around 45 minutes or thereabouts north of Nashville.

The type of southern accent really doesn't matter much. I'd really love the type from Tom's era but that doesn't seem quite likely so I'd be more than happy with a modern day southern twang. There's gotta be at least one young actor from the south that could pull off Tom's part.

I've just thought of the perfect person for the role of Tom Sawyer. I can't remember his name exactly but he played in American Gothic. I don't know if his accent is real, but its close enough for me.

[ 19-02-2002: Message edited by: Trijhaos ]

13:47 / 19.02.02

Here's a bit from comics2film.com about Robinson's experience with the film....

quote: The creator also talked about the difficulty of adapting The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for the big screen. Robinson wrote a script for the film which now has Stephen Norrington (Ghost Rider), which was panned by online reviewers for its departures from the comic. "The problem is if you divorce yourself from how much fun it is to read that comic, it isn't really a movie," he said. "It takes four issues to really get them going. Then they immediately go after Fu Manchu and then they meet betrayal and it's all over."

In addition to changing the pace of the story, there were Hollywood pressures that necessitated other changes. The producers of the movie were reluctant to use an Asian villain. The edgy characters (which Robinson sums up as "two psychopaths, a drug addict, a sort of sexually ambivalent vampire girl and you've got Captain Nemo") were also seen as unsympathetic. Likewise, Tom Sawyer was added to the mix to satisfy the studio's desire for a younger character to join the older team.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

14:36 / 19.02.02

quote:Originally posted by moriarty:
In other LoEG gossip, it has been hinted at that Mina would not be in the movie, and that Tom Sawyer would take her place. Also, the film would take place in America, of course.

See, I thought you were kidding when you posted this. How very awful.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

17:24 / 09.08.02

Bringing this thread back from the dead to post this snippet from the latest Ansible. Who knows if it's true?
Harry Connolly_ on the _League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_ film (see _A180_): `I've read the script, and the new villain hails from the only spot in the world more jam-packed with evil masterminds than Britain: France. The new baddie is the Fantom of the Opera, now equipped with an army of thugs and a secret Mongolian fortress. You think I'm kidding? Also, all references to Quatermain's drug use have been expunged, and he's now a dashing old adventurer grieving over his inability to save his son's life. Hence, Tom Sawyer as surrogate son.
[] If the film resembles the script I read, you can also look forward to a large supporting role for action hero Dorian Gray, and dialog like -- _Quatermain:_ "The vampire's got our backs!" [] Don't make that face. What did you expect?'

19:29 / 09.08.02

(...)two psychopaths, a drug addict, a sort of sexually ambivalent vampire girl(...)

I read this and keep wondering why exactly is it that movies, and not comics, are considered "adult" entertainment. Probably because they have "adult" budgets...

07:15 / 11.08.02

I already posted this in the "Comics Movies That Suck" thread, but here's the cast:

Sean Connery .... Allan Quatermain
Stuart Townsend .... Dorian Gray
Max Ryan .... Dante Inferno
Shane West .... Tom Sawyer
Tony Curran .... The Invisible Man
Jason Flemyng .... Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
Jason Isaacs .... Campion Bond
Tom Goodman-Hill .... Sanderson Reed
Richard Roxburgh .... The Fantom
Naseeruddin Shah .... Captain Nemo
Peta Wilson .... Mina Harker

Slightly off-topic, but Vol. 1 is coming out in paperback on Sep't. 4th for $14.95. BTW, did you know that the guy that's directing this is also going to be directing the live action remake of Akira? That said, does anyone still have faith that this film will be any good whatsoever?

08:07 / 11.08.02

It should be a porno, the way they're fucking the source material.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

08:55 / 11.08.02

Perhaps we should put it to the vote, do you think this will suck more or less than 'From Hell'?

13:42 / 12.08.02

Isn't a question like that somewhat akin to asking "Would you like your eyes burnt out or poked out?"

15:30 / 12.08.02

And I've already posted this in the Comic Movies That Suck thread, but:

You're not going to see this are you? Any of you? 'Cause you've got no right to bitch if you plan on seeing it anyway, "just to see how bad it is."

16:18 / 12.08.02

aw, heck.... I'm looking forward to it. I think it'll be good fun.

18:23 / 12.08.02

Ditto that. Anybody know what Moore's opinion on it so far has been? I know filming has only just began but does he have a blog or something?

19:23 / 12.08.02

Im sure Moores opinion is that "it isnt my book, its their film" and "ooh looky, Ive got some money."

06:51 / 16.08.02

One word: providence.

"Actor Sean Connery, on location in Prague, calls flooding a `disaster' " (Thu Aug 15)

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Sean Connery had a front-row seat for the floods that devastated Prague, and he says no one can appreciate the magnitude of the disaster without seeing it firsthand.

Speaking briefly to reporters Thursday while on location in the Czech capital for a film, Connery said he was almost speechless trying to describe the scope of the flooding — the worst in Prague in 175 years, city officials say.

"I couldn't adequately express the disaster that it is now," the "James Bond" star said. He's been in Prague since June to film "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," an historic thriller.

08:52 / 16.08.02

This film is going to be shit. Imagine taking a load of characters that Alan Moore himself has created and lovingly crafted and turning them into the stars of a big-budget movie...

Oh, hang on. They're not Alan Moore's characters, are they? And just imagine if this shite big budget movie gets a few people who walk out of the cinema saying to themselves, hey, I might pick up this comic-thingy what that was based on... could be interesting...

And then they go into Forbidden Planet, and pick up some other stuff at the same time, and hey! More people are reading comics!

God, that would be awful. Wish they'd make a completely faithful 12-part TV series of Marvel Superheroes Secret Wars instead.

Sheesh.

Regrettable Juvenilia

09:09 / 16.08.02

Sax, surely you're not implying that people should wait until a film adaptation of a comic is actually *made* before they start saying how shit it'll be? What else would we do around here?

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