This sounds like a pretty cool movie...

Posted by Rushmore from dhcp-63-49.tulane.edu (129.81.63.49) on Tuesday, November 05, 2002 at 9:44pm :

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Premise: Set in a version of Victorian Era England (1900) where many characters of fiction actually exist (indeed, their fictional characters are often people who really did exist), this is the story of a band of unusual figures brought together by the royal government, whom are famous literary figures (from our point of view): Dr. Jekyll (Flemyng), the Invisible Man (Curran; renamed Rodney Skinner due to copyright issues with the H.G. Wells estate), Captain Nemo (from novels by Jules Verne, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) (Shah), Mina Harker (nee Murray) (Wilson) (from Bram Stoker's Dracula), and the adventurer famous for finding King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain (Connery), who serves as the group's leader (though in the comic books, Ms. Harker, with her scarf-covered neck, is actually the leader), the youthful Dorian Gray (Townsend), and their American liaison, Detective Thomas Sawyer. The reason for their being brought together is to foil a madman's ("The Fantom") evil plans for world domination by turning the nations of the world against each other in something called a "World War" (if the script is anything like the comic books, the nature of the villain, and what fictional source he's from, may be kept secret until the end, for a "big surprise").

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