After a 2003 adaptation of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill ’s graphic novel failed to set up a hope - for enfranchisement — and a 2013 goggle box series never made it past the pilot stage—20th Century Fox is once again tackle The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen .
Perhaps this version will memorise from the mistakes of that earlier big - screen sweat , which starred Sean Connery in his final role ( arguably putting him off making movies eternally ) . At the very , least , it could hardly be worse than the first cinema , which added American broker Tom Sawyer , as U.S. audiences could n’t be trusted to make out or care about such British literary characters as Captain Nemo , Mina Harker , and Dr. Jekyll . ( “ The listless movie adjustment of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has the effort stains of wasted energy ; it ’s dingy , yet frantic,”remarked the New York Times . )
As Variety notes :
John Davis on panel to produce through his Davis Entertainment streamer . Jayson Rothwell has been rent to write “ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen . ” Ira Napoliello and Matt Reilly are superintend the remake , based on Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill ’s lifelike novel of the same name , centering on straightlaced - era literary characters such as Captain Nemo , the Invisible Man , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde teaming to contend a common foeman .
No film director or cast has yet been annunciate .
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