 In an interview with "The Times", Kevin O'Neill, illustrator of the comics, said he believed the film failed because it was not respectful of the source material.He did not recognize the characters when reading the screenplay and claimed that Norrington and Connery did not cooperate.Finally, O'Neill said that the comic book version of Allan Quatermain was a lot better than the movie version and that marginalising Mina Murray as a vampire "changed the whole balance".