Near Joshua Tyler
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The early 2000s were a strange time for comic books. The studies had not yet hacked the formula, and CGI was both everywhere and was not good enough. Each studio chases after X-men or Spider Money, but most did not understand why these films worked. This left the audience with a half -baked adaptation string and aggressively gray visual palettes.
Then came the movie with Sean ConnerySteampunk submarine, vampire women and an invisible man. It had everything and it collapsed completely.
So this is the reason The extraordinary gentleman’s league failed.
The extraordinary gentleman’s league I had to start the franchise. Instead, both the film’s director and its star never worked again.
Based freely, very In a freely, Alan Moore -recognized comic, the 2003 film massaged classical literary figures on one world -saving superhero team. It was Avenger Before Avengers… if Avenger was pulled from the pages of the 19th century novels, and none of the teams liked each other.
The idea on paper is brilliant. You have a captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, Dr. Jekyll, Mina Harker, Dorian Gray and an invisible thief called Skinner. The secret war is brewing. The technology is stolen. The shady villain tries to start the World War. The world’s biggest mind and monsters are assembled to stop him.
That should . But it’s not. Behind the scenes it was a mess.
Sean Connery and Chaos behind the scenes
Sean Connery was 72 years old when he signed LeagueIn the area he had rejected roles in films like Matrix and Ring commanderLater admitting that he does not understand these scripts.
He didn’t understand it either, but this time he said yes. Unfortunately, Connery’s confusion entered the production.
Sean constantly collided with director Stefan Norrington who had been missed before Blade And obviously, the cry is thought to be louder to improve things. Connery later described this experience as a “nightmare” and then he left the action.
It is reported that Norrington said Fox that he would never participate again. He kept this promise. The extraordinary gentleman’s league was his last movie.
Production exceeded the budget. Prague floods closed filming and flourished. The final cut feels like everyone simply refused.
It is clear from the beginning that the scenario does not know what kind of movie it wants to be. The extraordinary gentleman’s league Want to be grain and grounded, but it has a car that is the size of a limousine that in a barrel through the 19th century Venice. The extraordinary gentleman’s league wants to be serious but makes his invisible man into a tiny thief and villain wears a Halloween Mask from the Spirit.
In the masonry comic League is dysfunctional in design, border immoral, even dangerous. In the film they are sanitary. They trade with sarcastic quips and general exposure. None of them has a character. Mina is a vampire scientist. That’s it.
Jekyll is a conscience and also CGI problems. That’s it. Quatermain is old and scary and spent most of the movies, complaining about how young people no longer know how to fight wars.
Even Tom Saiver appears, mainly to love American viewers. He fires things and calls the Quatermain “Lord”. This is a role.
LeagueThe real failure is in tone and structure. The movie moves too fast and somehow doesn’t go anywhere. It is discovered that the villain is exactly what you think is. The plan is confusing: steal scientific secrets to cause war … while also creating a knockoff jekylls and an army of invisible soldiers?
There’s battle battle, spy discovery, boat chase, character death and last demonstration in an ice fortress that looks like something from Goldeneye 64In the area
It is the whole action, there are no consequences. The end tries to set the sequel, but there is nothing to find.
The film just made money. It earned $ 179 million around the world for $ 78 million. At the time it jumped out of the theaters, no one demanded more.
The fox handed over all the sequels plans. Connery retired and never made another movie. Norrington kept the promise and stopped leading. And Alan Moore, the furious that Hollywood continued to work, rejected the film before it even premiered.
To be honest, Alan Moore rejects everything. Well or not.
The extraordinary gentleman’s league It was not because the assumption was mistaken, but because it never knew what made this assumption great. It misunderstood its heroes, tone and audience. It tried to enjoy everyone and finally delight anyone.
The extraordinary gentleman’s league The comics are dark, layered and literary. The film is loud, confused and afraid to commit.
Now, The extraordinary gentleman’s leagueLegacy is like a final, awkward footnote in the legendary career of Sona Conneria and a warning that a good idea still needs a good scenario.
The worst-slender who thought of inventing a contemporary comic movie, Blade Director Stephen Norrington has never led again. What would be Wonder The world is like now if he had worked? If he had chosen any other comic book property rather than Lxg? We’ll never know.
