The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Year:

2003

Duration:

110 min

Genres:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

IMDB rate:

5.8

Director:

Stephen Norrington

Awards:

6 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2003-07-11

Filming Locations: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Earnings

Budget: $78,000,000

Opening Weekend: $23,075,892 (USA) (13 July 2003)

Gross: $66,465,204 (USA) (16 November 2003)

Cast

Actor

Character

Naseeruddin Shah

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Peta Wilson

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Sean Connery

Allan Quatermain

Tony Curran

Rodney Skinner

Stuart Townsend

Dorian Gray

Shane West

Tom Sawyer

Jason Flemyng

Dr. Henry Jekyll

Richard Roxburgh

M

Max Ryan

Dante

Tom Goodman-Hill

Sanderson Reed

David Hemmings

Nigel

Terry O'Neill

Ishmael

Rudolf Pellar

Draper

Robert Willox

Constable Dunning

Robert Orr

Running Officer

Michael McGuffie

Copper #1

Joel Kirby

Copper #2

Marek Vasut

Soldier

Ewart James Walters

Toby

Michal Grün

Assassin #3

Robert Vahey

Elderly Hunter

Sylvester Morand

Old Traveler

Mariano Titanti

Edgar Shreave

Huggy Leaver

Hanson Cab Driver

Pavel Bezdek

Marksman #1

Stanislav Adamickij

Marksman #2

James Babson

Marksman #3

San Shella

Terrified Crewman

Ellen Savaria

Recordist

Riz Meedin

Venice Conning Tower Crewman

Sartaj Garewal

Rocket Room Crewman

Neran Persaud

Crewman Patel

Andrew Rajan

Headphones Crewman

Daniel Brown

Stunned Guard

Aftab Sachak

Breathless Crewman

Guy Singh

Signal Crew Man (as Guy Singh Digpal)

Harmage Singh Kalirai

Crewman Chandra

Brian Caspe

Guard #1

Robert Goodman

Valet

Rene Hajek

Flame Thrower

Semere-Ab Etmet Yohannes

Witch Doctor

Winter Ave Zoli

Eva

Did you know?

Trivia

Naseeruddin Shah trained with a karate master to do much of his own fighting stunt work as Nemo.

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Nemo's name is actually a Latin word, which means, "nameless" or "nobody". In the graphic novel, when someone asks him his name, he often replies "I am no one."

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The film's literary characters are Allan Quatermain, introduced in H. Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines" (1885); Mina Harker from Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897); Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde from Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886); Rodney Skinner, who replaced Griffin from H.G. Wells' "The Invisible Man" (1897) (due to rights issues, and the character in the comic was given the name Hawley Griffin as the original novel gave no first name); Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1870) and "The Mysterious Island" (1874); Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde's "The Picture Of Dorian Gray" (1891); Tom Sawyer from Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and its sequels; Ishmael from Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" (1851); and Professor James Moriarty from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Final Problem" (1893), one of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The Fantom's mask design alludes to Gaston Leroux's "The Phantom Of The Opera" (1911). British Intelligence chief "M" alludes to "Casino Royale" (1953) by Ian Fleming as does Campion Bond, a character from the script (who never made it into the movie), who is supposed to be the grandfather of James Bond.

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Goofs

After reaching the Arctic cave, the Invisible Man is suddenly completely clothed, with his make-up, glasses, and shoes on. He walked to the cave nude, neither he nor any other character appears to be toting these items.

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When the bombs aboard the Nautilus explode, the conference room's table slides from left to right. However, it is possible to see a set of strings attached to its legs pulling it across the room.

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During the shootout in the African Club, we can clearly see Sean Connery's stunt double.

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Quotes

Mina Harker: I'm not much of a drinker.

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M: James Moriarty? The so-called Napoleon of crime? That man died at Reichenbach Falls. He died, and I was reborn.

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Dorian Gray: Bomb-voyage.

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Faq

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A Note Regarding Spoilers

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The following FAQ entries may contain spoilers. Only the biggest ones (if any) will be covered with spoiler tags. Spoiler tags have been used sparingly in order to make the page more readable.

Q

Who are the extraordinary "gentlemen" in the league?

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They are all characters from fictional novels and include:Allan Quatermain [Sean Connery], an English big game hunter introduced in the King Solomon's Mines novels of British author H. Rider Haggard.Captain Nemo [Naseeruddin Shah], a scientific genius who roams the depths of the sea in his submarine, the Nautilus, in two of French author Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874).Mina Harker [Peta Wilson], the wife of Jonathan Harker, a solicitor who traveled to Transylvania to sell London properties to Count Dracula and later lived to regret it in the novel Dracula (1897) by Irish author Bram Stoker.Dorian Gray [Stuart Townsend], a character created by Irish author Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Dorian's picture grows older but Dorian does not.Rodney Skinner, The Invisible Man [Tony Curran], a thief who apparently stole the invisibility formula from the invisible man of English author H.G. Wells' 1897 novel of the same name (still under copyright).Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde [Jason Flemyng], from Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.Special agent Tom Sawyer [Shane West] of the American Secret Service. From the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain although, in that novel, he is only a young boy

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Who is the villain?

A

He calls himself the Fantom, but he turns out to be Professor James Moriarty.

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