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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, also promoted as LXG, is a 2003 steampunk-dieselpunk superhero action film loosely based on the first volume of the comic book series of the same name by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. It was released on July 11, 2003, in the United States, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Stephen Norrington and starred Sean Connery (in his final film role to date), Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemyng, and Richard Roxburgh. As with the comic book source material, the
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, also promoted as LXG, is a 2003 steampunk-dieselpunk superhero action film loosely based on the first volume of the comic book series of the same name by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. It was released on July 11, 2003, in the United States, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Stephen Norrington and starred Sean Connery (in his final film role to date), Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemyng, and Richard Roxburgh. As with the comic book source material, the
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (comics) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, publication of which began in 1999. The series spans several volumes. There have been a number of versions of the League, and in particular in the comic book "" the membership and activities of these Leagues were fully explored, interwoven into an extensive world timeline. The first League was established at the behest of England's Queen Gloriana recommending that Italian sorcerer Prospero and his squire found a group of extraordinary individuals after her death who
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Blazing World: The Unofficial Companion to the Second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and features interviews and commentary by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill; detailed, panel-by-panel annotations; and a cover by John Picacio. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II is a comic book limited series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, published under the America's Best Comics imprint of DC Comics in the United States and under Vertigo in the United Kingdom. It is a sequel to the original volume of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and like its previous
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century is the third volume of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill. Co-published by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics in the US and UK respectively, "Century" was published in three distinct 72-page squarebound comics. The third volume of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" is a 216-page epic spanning almost a hundred years and entitled 'Century'. Divided into three 72-page chapters, each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes, it takes place in three
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Almanac covers the Arctic and Antarctica. World of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The world of "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman" is a fictional universe created by Alan Moore in the comic book series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", where all of the characters and events from literature (and possibly the entirety of fiction) coexist. The world the characters inhabit is one more technologically advanced than our own, but also home to the strange and supernatural. Beyond the comic itself, the world of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is expanded upon by supplemental prose material, including "The New Traveller's Almanac",
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World of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The world of "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman" is a fictional universe created by Alan Moore in the comic book series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", where all of the characters and events from literature (and possibly the entirety of fiction) coexist. The world the characters inhabit is one more technologically advanced than our own, but also home to the strange and supernatural. Beyond the comic itself, the world of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is expanded upon by supplemental prose material, including "The New Traveller's Almanac", "Allan and the Sundered Veil", and
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was written by Kevin J. Anderson and released shortly before the movie. The soundtrack album was also released internationally but not in the United States. "The Tracking Board" reported on May 26, 2015, that 20th Century Fox and Davis Entertainment had agreed to develop a reboot with hopes of launching a franchise. The report stated that a search was underway for a director who could help "continue to develop the reboot". John Davis told Collider in an interview that the reboot will be a female-centric film. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, also promoted as
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within Alan Moore's and H.G.Wells' works, including but not restricted to "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman" series or "The Invisible Man". The steampunk band Unextraordinary Gentlemen was inspired by this comic On "75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)" off the "Rising Down" album, Black Thought refers to The Roots as "gentlemen of an extraordinary league". A chapter in the 2005 nonfiction work "" is titled "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". In his 2005 book "The Areas of My Expertise", John Hodgman refers to Nemo as "the Sikh" and "the Science-Pirate", as Nemo was referred to in the "League" comics. Neil Gaiman cited
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One is a comic book limited series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, published under the America's Best Comics imprint of DC Comics in the United States and under Vertigo in the United Kingdom. It is the first story in the larger "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" series. The story takes place in 1898 in a fictional world where all of the characters and events from Victorian literature (and possibly the entirety of fiction) coexist. The characters and plot elements borrow from works of writers
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the Martian phenomenon leading to the Martian invasion from H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds". The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One is a comic book limited series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, published under the America's Best Comics imprint of DC Comics in the United States and under Vertigo in the United Kingdom. It is the first story in the larger "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" series. The story takes place in 1898 in a fictional world where all of the characters and events from Victorian literature
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II is a comic book limited series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, published under the America's Best Comics imprint of DC Comics in the United States and under Vertigo in the United Kingdom. It is a sequel to the original volume of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and like its previous installment is a pastiche of various characters and events from Victorian literature; though it borrows a great number of characters and elements from various literary works of writers such as Sir Arthur
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier is an original graphic novel in the comic book series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill. It was the last volume of the series to be published by DC Comics. Although the third book to be published, it was not intended to be the third volume in the series. Moore has stated that it was intended to be "a sort of ingenious sourcebook", and not a regular volume. "Black Dossier" was released on November 14, 2007. Originally referred
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the Varèse Sarabande label for purchase online. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (soundtrack) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is the soundtrack from the 2003 film "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", released by Varèse Sarabande on August 1, 2003. The music was composed by Trevor Jones and Joseph Shabalala, and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Geoffrey Alexander). The Ladysmith Black Mambazo choral group performed the songs "Kenya - Wait For Me" and "Son of Africa". The soundtrack was not released in stores in the United States, and was at first released only for iTunes. After this did not
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (soundtrack) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is the soundtrack from the 2003 film "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", released by Varèse Sarabande on August 1, 2003. The music was composed by Trevor Jones and Joseph Shabalala, and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Geoffrey Alexander). The Ladysmith Black Mambazo choral group performed the songs "Kenya - Wait For Me" and "Son of Africa". The soundtrack was not released in stores in the United States, and was at first released only for iTunes. After this did not generate satisfactory sales, it was released by
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present to the unimaginable reaches of a shimmering science-fiction future. With a cast-list that includes many of the most iconic figures from literature and pop culture, and a tempo that conveys the terrible momentum of inevitable events, this is literally and literarily the story to end all stories." "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" comics are generally set in the 20th century, but the chronological order of the fictional world does not correspond with the order of release: Notes: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (comics) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated
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executive produce. Neither Moore nor O'Neill would be producers on the series. It had also been reported that the pilot episode would still be broadcast, even if Fox opted not to green-light the series. The DVD of the documentary feature film "The Mindscape of Alan Moore" contains an interview with the artist Kevin O'Neill, elaborately detailing the collaboration with Alan Moore. O'Neill talks about "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century" and his run-ins with censorship. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series co-created by writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill which began
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Newman who features in the film as Major Rutland-Smith's wife. The book and film inspired both Alan Moore's comic series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and its spin-off movie, and the British comedy troupe The League of Gentlemen. The League of Gentlemen (film) The League of Gentlemen is a 1960 British criminal comedy film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, and Richard Attenborough. It is based on the 1958 novel "The League of Gentlemen" by John Boland and adapted by Bryan Forbes, who also starred in the film. A manhole opens at night in
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo Trilogy The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo trilogy is a volume in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" series, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill. Co-published by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics in the US and UK respectively, "Nemo" was published in three distinct 72-page squarebound comics. The Nemo trilogy is a 216-page story arc spanning fifty years, divided into three 72-page chapters, each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes, it takes place in three distinct eras. The series focuses on Janni Dakkar, daughter of Captain Nemo,
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an interview with Janni Dakkar on the former pirate's seventieth birthday. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo Trilogy The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo trilogy is a volume in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" series, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill. Co-published by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics in the US and UK respectively, "Nemo" was published in three distinct 72-page squarebound comics. The Nemo trilogy is a 216-page story arc spanning fifty years, divided into three 72-page chapters, each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes, it takes place in three distinct
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Nigel. In London, Quatermain meets "M", who is forming the latest generation of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He reveals the Fantom plans to start a world war by bombing a secret meeting of world leaders in Venice. The new League consists of Quatermain, Captain Nemo, vampiric chemist Mina Harker, and invisible thief Rodney Skinner. The League travel to the London docks to recruit Dorian Gray, Mina's former lover who is kept immortal thanks to a missing portrait. The Fantom's assassins attack, but the League fend them off, aided by U.S. Secret Service Agent Tom Sawyer. Dorian and Sawyer join
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"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" as one of the influences for his award-winning short story "A Study in Emerald". Warren Ellis has cited "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" as an inspiration for his comic "Ignition City". The comic "" by science-fiction writer Serge Lehman has been regarded by critics as the French reply to "The League". It uses proto-superhumans and supervillains from European pulp literature of the early twentieth century, but in a whole different perspective as Lehman is not mainly focused on English literature (as Moore does), mixes those real fictional characters equally with real prominent historical figures and
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series co-created by writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill which began in 1999. The series spans two six-issue limited series, "Volume I", "Volume II", and an original graphic novel from the America's Best Comics imprint of DC Comics, as well as a and spin-off trilogy "Nemo" published by Top Shelf and Knockabout Comics. According to Moore, the concept behind the series was initially a "Justice League of Victorian England" but he quickly developed it as an opportunity to merge elements from many works of fiction
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the two previous Absolute "League" volumes. Bill Oakley died halfway through designing the book, so the last half was designed by Todd Klein. The book is dedicated to Oakley's memory. The vinyl record was eventually produced in the UK. According to Moore the "Black Dossier" was created because Moore was uncomfortable with the idea of O'Neill being unemployed during the planned hiatus between Volumes II and III of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Wanting to do a source book for "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" Moore began writing the "Black Dossier". Expanding the original idea to including numerous different prose
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was a collection of companion notes to Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's 1999 comic book series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I" compiled by Texas-native Jess Nevins. "Heroes & Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" sold well, and continues to be one of MonkeyBrains best-selling titles several years after its first publication. It was nominated for an International Horror Guild Award and favorably reviewed in both "Locus" and "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction", among other publications. The companion to "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II" followed in 2004, and in 2006, Titan
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who is holed up in a secret location with the still living head of Oliver Haddo. During the onslaught, Allan was killed while fighting the Antichrist. Soon after Night was granted immortality and left MI6. Allan's body was buried in the same grave in Africa where he faked his death. In 2010, the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - America: 1988" was announced as an April Fools' Day joke, complete with mocked-up cover. This 1988 league was the supposed successor to another league disbanded in 1979 by Oscar Goldman. The 1988 League was created after the murder of Mr. Miyagi to
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in different sections. Stories include: Other features include: "Time" magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2007, ranking it at #2, and praising it as "effing genius." Jesse Schedeen of IGN gave "Black Dossier" a 9.5 rating praising the complex detail of Kevin O'Neil's artwork and the literary quality of Moore's writing, whilst criticising the quality of the paper, printing style of the hardcover version and some aspects of the storytelling. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier is an original graphic novel in the comic book
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (novel) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a 2003 steampunk/adventure novel by Kevin J. Anderson. It is a novelization of the script of the movie of the same name, written by James Dale Robinson, which itself was based on the comic by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. In late 2002, Anderson had just finished working on his novel "", set in a world where Jules Verne had drawn inspiration for his works from (fictional) real-life events, individuals, and technological developments. Anderson was just beginning to work on the book that would become "The Martian War",
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future repercussions. The three volumes of the graphic novel were scheduled to be released in April/May for three successive years from 2009 to 2011. "1910" was released in April 2009, "1969" was released July 2011, and "2009" was released on June 27, 2012. Reception to "Century" has been mixed to positive. Chad Nevett called the book "flat out fun to read". However, other critics such as Chris Sims have criticized the growing amount of indiscernible references as a hindrance to the plot elements. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century is
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side possessing numerical superiority. Silurians also appear outside "Doctor Who"-related media. A cave drawing of a Silurian and a Sea Devil appear in a cave on Mars in a work of steampunk fiction by D'Israeli, "Scarlet Traces: The Great Game". Silurians and Sea Devils are referenced in the second volume of Alan Moore's "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" where they were connected to the creature from the Black Lagoon; "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" is set in a fictional universe which reconciles the exploits of all fictional characters in one continuity. A 2018 journal article set to be published in the "International
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the same ship and murders a prostitute. Allan Quatermain and Mina Murray (who have both become immortal after bathing in the Fire of Youth) continue to work for the British Government as part of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, along with new members , Thomas Carnacki and A.J. Raffles. Carnacki has frequent visions of an upcoming disaster where many people will die, and a cult plotting the creation of a "Moonchild" destined to initiate Armageddon. He recognises one of the men in his visions as paranormal detective Simon Iff, and the League go to a gentlemen's club Carnacki and Iff
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Marvel and Dark Horse held the licence to the character, Tarzan had no regular comic book publisher for a number of years. During this time Blackthorne Publishing published "Tarzan" in 1986 and Malibu Comics published "Tarzan" in 1992. There have been a number of minor appearance of Tarzan in comic books over the years. Though not mentioned by name, Tarzan is referenced in Alan Moore's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Places and people from the original Tarzan novels are referred to, suggesting that Tarzan does or did exist in that universe. In a 1999 "The Phantom" story, the hero meets
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Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and Poppy Z. Brite's "Lost Souls", both making New Orleans a key centre of Gothic fantasy. Urban Gothic themes and images were also used in comics and graphic novels, including Frank Miller's "Daredevil" (from 1979), "Batman" (from 1986) and "Sin City" series (from 1991), James O'Barr's "The Crow", beside Alan Moore's "From Hell" (from 1991) and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (1999). Urban Gothic novels were among the earliest and most influential works adapted for the cinema, helping to form the genre of horror film. These included "Nosferatu" (1922), "The Phantom of the Opera" (1925), "Dracula"
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shared public domain characters who did not appear in the comic book series. Although Fox denied the allegations as "absurd nonsense", the case was settled out of court, a decision Alan Moore, according to "The New York Times" "took ... as an especially bitter blow, believing that [he] had been denied the chance to exonerate [himself]." The film opened at #2 behind "". "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" grossed an estimated $66,465,204 in Canada and the United States, $12,603,037 in the United Kingdom, and $12,033,033 in Spain. Worldwide, the film took $179,265,204. Critical reaction to the film was generally unfavorable,
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such as Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells and Robert Louis Stevenson. In 1898, one year after her encounter with Dracula, Mina Murray has divorced her husband and now works for the British government. She meets with MI5 agent Campion Bond (the grandfather of James Bond), who gives her the task of gathering selected members for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a secret task force whose job it will be to protect the British Empire from potential threats. Captain Nemo escorts Mina to Egypt, where she finds a heavily intoxicated Allan Quatermain in an opium
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comments made by the producer of the film version of his "V for Vendetta", which stated that the author—who had distanced himself completely from film adaptations of his work, particularly after "LXG"—had commented favorably on a draft of the script. Moore requested that someone involved with the film's production company—and DC Comics parent company, Warner Bros.—officially retract the comments and/or apologize. He also claims that his lack of support from DC regarding a minor lawsuit related to the film adaptation of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" was instrumental in his departure. When no such apology was forthcoming, Moore (and O'Neill)
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promised eon of unending terror can commence, the world can now be ended starting with North London. Presented as a stand-alone hardcover spin-off rather than a new "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" story. The trilogy consists of three chapters, "Nemo: Heart of Ice", "Nemo: The Roses of Berlin", and "Nemo: River of Ghosts". "Nemo: Heart of Ice" follows Janni Dakkar to Antarctica in 1925. The story opens with Nemo and her crew robbing a great treasure from Ayesha, who appears to have great influence over Charles Foster Kane. Nemo travels to Antarctica as her father once did on a trip that
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builds a crepuscular alternate history story whose aim is to explain on a historical and psychoanalytical level why all European super-heroes disappeared from popular culture and European collective memory with World War II. Jess Nevins has produced a series of annotations for each volume which are available online (see links) and have also been expanded into book form: A film adaptation was released in 2003, also by the name "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". The film stars Sean Connery, who plays Allan Quatermain, and features Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner aka "An" Invisible Man (the rights could not be
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filmed in Sydney was Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge!" (2001), in which Roxburgh played the Duke of Monroth. Roxburgh appeared as three iconic characters over the next three years: he played Sherlock Holmes in 2002's "The Hound of the Baskervilles", Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty in 2003's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and Count Dracula in 2004's "Van Helsing". He is one of only two actors to have played all three of these characters, the other being Orson Welles, who played them in separate radio programs. Roxburgh directed his first film, "Romulus, My Father" starring Eric Bana, released in 2007. This film
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at Coradine, a ladies' commune in Scotland. She leaves, and the story ends with Allan sitting alone on a park bench. Just as in the first volume, the back of the second contains additional information on the League and its world. The chief is "The New Traveller's Almanac," serialised in the back of the six issues and collected in the volume, serving as a guide to the world of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, including numerous references to classic and modern fictional works, e.g. the City of Opar, and Laputa, narrated by the creators. Other parts include a cover gallery,
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for "Negative Burn" published by Caliber Comics. The DVD of the 2003 documentary feature film "The Mindscape of Alan Moore" contains an exclusive bonus interview with Kevin O'Neill, elaborately detailing the collaboration with "Alan Moore." O'Neill talks about "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century", his run-ins with the censors and the status of the "Marshal Law" movie in an interview with The Times. His 2009 work includes "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century", the third "League" limited series, the first issue of which was released in May 2009. O'Neill is a contributor to Alan Moore's bi-monthly magazine, "Dodgem Logic", which debuted
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the Molluscs off Mars. As they leave, however, Carter worries they may be going to Earth. On Earth, in the year 1898, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (consisting of Allan Quatermain, Dr Henry Jekyll, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo and Hawley Griffin) arrive in Horsell Common, where a Mollusc spaceship lies at the centre of an impact crater. The League meet with MI5 Agent Campion Bond, and debate about what the mysterious craft is and where it came from. A tentacled alien emerges from the craft, and a group of men carrying a white flag descend into the crater to make
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2001, as well as the film "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", directed by Stephen Norrington and released in 2003. Murphy and producer Tom DeSanto optioned rights to the Transformers toy line from Hasbro and pitched it to Hollywood studios. According to Murphy, the studios passed initially, but then began to express interest after further internal meetings involving younger staff, from the generation who had played with Transformers in their childhood. Paramount Pictures and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura pursued the property, and DreamWorks got involved. DreamWorks executive Michael De Luca proposed the idea to Steven Spielberg, who took the project and
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involved in both. "The Martian War" uses the same first name given to the Invisible Man by the creators of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. II" (in the original book, the Invisible Man had no first name. "LOEG" author Alan Moore gave him the first name 'Hawley' as a reference to Hawley Crippen). Anderson had previously written the novelization of the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" film. While making use of many themes in "The War of the Worlds", "The Martian War" is diametrically opposite in its basic philosophy. Wells emphasized humanity's complete helplessness in the face of the invasion,
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also known for his work on the films "Silent Hill" and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", where the visual side of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" was hailed as a "visual treat" in "Variety". Laustsen was born in Aalborg, to Aage Aarup Laustsen and Ellen Laustsen. He studied at the National Film School of Denmark (1976–1979) to pursue a career in cinematography. Laustsen has been involved in the production of feature films, documentaries, and advertisements. Dan Laustsen Dan Laustsen, , (born 15 June 1954) is a Danish cinematographer. He is a member of the Danish Society of Cinematographers and the
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smokescreen, the pair have taken the third volume of "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and its "Nemo" spinoffs to Knockabout Comics and Top Shelf Productions due both to Moore feeling insulted by the lack of support from 20th Century Fox and DC comics in the lawsuit, and also Warner Bros.' failure to retract false claims of Moore's endorsement of the "V for Vendetta" film adaptation. O'Neill drew the final "Nemesis the Warlock" story in the special "Prog 2000" millennium edition of "2000AD" in 1999. Apart from this and his work on "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", he has worked on short strips
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a lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, claiming the company had intentionally plagiarized a script of theirs titled "Cast of Characters" in order to create the Sean Connery-starring "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" film in 2003. According to the BBC, the lawsuit alleged 'that Mr Cohen and Mr Poll pitched the idea to Fox several times between 1993 and 1996, under the name "Cast of Characters".' "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" was an adaptation of the 1999 published comic book series by Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill. Poll produced eleven studio films. His credits included two films loosely based on Russian
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in 1948, but the dates were changed by the publisher). The frame story sees Mina Harker and Allan Quatermain - now immortal after bathing in the fire of youth from "" - on their quest to recover the "Black Dossier", which contains the secret history of the now-disbanded League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The book starts with Mina Murray (going by the name Odette O'quim) at a bar in London, where MI5 Agent James "Jimmy" Bond (grandson of Campion Bond) attempts to seduce her, taking her to the decaying remains of the "Ministry of Love", once one of Big Brother's government
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episode was written by splatterpunk-horror author David Schow, and starred Cohen regular Michael Moriarty. In 2003, Cohen, together with production partner Martin Poll was at the center of a lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, claiming the company had intentionally plagiarized a script of theirs titled "Cast of Characters" in order to create the Sean Connery-starring "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" film in 2003. According to the BBC, the lawsuit alleged 'that Mr Cohen and Mr Poll pitched the idea to Fox several times between 1993 and 1996, under the name "Cast of Characters".' "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" was an adaptation
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after bathing in the fire of youth from "She"—on their quest to recover the Black Dossier itself (a confessed macguffin), in a metafictional unravelling of the secret history of the now-disbanded League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Out to stop them is a trio of secret agents: James Bond, Emma Night, and Hugo "Bulldog" Drummond. The pursuit takes Mina and Allan from London to Scotland and eventually to the magical Blazing World, overseen by Shakespeare's Prospero. Initially intended to be accompanied by a 45-rpm record featuring songs referenced in the plot, this addition was shelved ostensibly to be included as an incentive
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Narrative (in 1995 with Eddie Campbell for "From Hell" and in 2003 with Kevin O'Neill for "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen") Moore received a Bram Stoker Award in the category Best Illustrated Narrative for "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" in 2000, then again in 2012 for "Neonomicon" as Best Graphic Novel. In 2005, "Watchmen" was the only graphic novel to make it on to "Time"'s "The 100 Best Novels from 1923 to the Present" list. Best Writer Best Writer/Artist Best Single Issue/Single Story Best Serialized Story Best Continuing Series Best Finite Series/Limited Series Best New Series Best Anthology Best Graphic
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The New Traveller's Almanac The New Traveller's Almanac is a series of writings included in the back of all six issues of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II", covering the timeline and the world of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". The six issues covered the British Isles, Continental Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Australias, and the Polar Regions. In the Volume II collection, the "Almanac" was collected into a single 46-page document. All of the information from it was drawn from pre-existing literary sources (such as Shakespearean plays or the Cthulhu Mythos). The
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to Fulworth to keep bees). The New Traveller's Almanac The New Traveller's Almanac is a series of writings included in the back of all six issues of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II", covering the timeline and the world of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". The six issues covered the British Isles, Continental Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Australias, and the Polar Regions. In the Volume II collection, the "Almanac" was collected into a single 46-page document. All of the information from it was drawn from pre-existing literary sources (such as Shakespearean plays
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comics Alan Moore was cynical of the film from early in its development, seeing that the two works bore little resemblance, distancing himself from the film altogether. "As long as I could distance myself by not seeing them," he said, he could profit from the films while leaving the original comics untouched, "assured no one would confuse the two. This was probably naïve on my part." "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" earned a total of $48,640,000 in rentals with $14,810,000 from video rentals and $33,830,000 from DVD rentals. DVD sales meanwhile gathered revenue of $36,400,000. A novelization of the movie
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daughter, Janni Dakkar, is introduced, and some of her adventures are chronicled subsequently. In a 1997 interview with Andy Diggle for the now defunct Comics World website, Alan Moore gave the title of the work as ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk"". Moore changed the name to "Gentlemen" to better reflect the Victorian era. Simon Bisley was originally going to be the artist for the series before being replaced by Kevin O'Neill. The Victorian setting allowed Moore and O'Neill to insert "in-jokes" and cameos from many works of Victorian fiction, while also making contemporary references and jibes. The works bear numerous
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furor, but is also a reference to the Marvelman, when Marvel Comics had previously retitled Marvelman, which was written by Alan Moore, to Miracleman, despite Marvelman having been around for 40 years. "Volume I" won the 2000 Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative. Jess Nevins' annotations for this volume are available in a book entitled "Heroes & Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and features; Elements from "Volume One" are present in the loose 2003 film adaptation. Similar to the comic, Professor Moriarty is revealed to be the antagonist in the film, though here he
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when a special effects set did not pan out as intended, forcing the filmmakers to have to quickly look for another effects shop. In 2003, Larry Cohen and Martin Poll filed a lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, claiming the company had intentionally plagiarized their script "Cast of Characters". According to the BBC, the lawsuit alleged "that Mr Cohen and Mr Poll pitched the idea to Fox several times between 1993 and 1996, under the name "Cast of Characters"," and that Fox had solicited the comics series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" as a smoke screen. It noted that the films
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with "Empire" magazine giving it two stars out of five while criticizing the film's exposition and lack of character depth, saying it 'flirts dangerously close with one-star ignominy'. A 30/100 approval rating on Metacritic is based on 36 reviews. Rotten Tomatoes reports 17% of 177 reviews being positive, with an average rating of 4/10. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film one star out of a possible four stating ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" assembles a splendid team of heroes to battle a plan for world domination, and then, just when it seems about to become a real
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to as "The Dark Dossier" during early announcements of its existence, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier" differs from the other regular volumes, as it is a self-contained graphic novel designed to be a "sourcebook" for the series. While the first two volumes included prose stories as backup features, the majority of "Black Dossier" consists of non-comic pieces, taking the form of prose stories, letters, maps, guidebooks, magazines and even a lost Shakespeare folio. Also included is a 'Tijuana Bible' insert and a 3-D section complete with custom glasses. However, these prose pieces and inserts are framed by a
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audiobooks including Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese, Jubilee by Shelley Harris and Playing It My Way, Sachin Tendulkar's autobiography. He has also featured on The Archers and BBC Radio 4's Book At Bedtime. Born and raised in Wiltshire, Garewal holds a BA(Hons) Accounting & Finance. Garewal played Jasper Choudhury in over 50 episodes in Season 2 of US teen drama House of Anubis for Nickelodeon in 2012. Sartaj Garewal Sartaj Garewal is a British actor and voice artist who works in films, TV, theatre and audio. Films include "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (2003), "Dirty War" (2004), "The Infidel"
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Sartaj Garewal Sartaj Garewal is a British actor and voice artist who works in films, TV, theatre and audio. Films include "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (2003), "Dirty War" (2004), "The Infidel" (2010) and "Baseline" (2010). Notable stage performances include Behind The Beautiful Forevers (National Theatre) 2015. Other theatre includes Romeo & Juliet (Royal Exchange Manchester), Taming of the Shrew (Arcola Theatre), East is East (New Vic Theatre, Stoke), Too Close to Home (Lyric Hammersmith, and Tinderbox (Bush Theatre) 2008. He played the lead role of Kuljit in BBC radio drama Silver Street for 6 years and has narrated various
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'League' of extraordinary individuals to defend Britain. The group disbanded when Prospero returned to the Blazing World, but was succeeded by similar groups in the 1740s, early 19th century, 1890s, early 20th century, and a failed group in the 1950s. In the late 1890s the United Kingdom was attacked by Martian invaders, who were defeated via germ warfare. The nation went on to fight in World War I and against the Germany of Adenoid Hynkel in World War II. After the war, General Sir Harold Wharton, an agent implanted by rogue factions of MI5 into the Labour Party, took power
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who completes this incarnation of the League. Meeting with Professor Cavor, the League is sent against Fu Manchu in his Limehouse lair, who has stolen the only known sample of cavorite and plans to use it to build an armed airship, against which Britain would have little defence. Having eventually retrieved the cavorite, the League delivers it into the hands of their employer — none other than Professor Moriarty (nemesis of Sherlock Holmes), who plans to use it in an airship of his own, with which he will bomb his adversary's Limehouse lair flat, taking large parts of London and
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The League of Gentlemen The League of Gentlemen is a British comedy television series that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The show is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in Northern England, originally based on Alston, Cumbria and follows the lives of bizarre characters, most of whom are played by three of the show's four writers—Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the League of Gentlemen comedy troupe in 1995. The series originally aired for three series from 1999 until 2002 followed by a film in 2005. A three-part revival mini-series was broadcast
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a playable "Game of Extraordinary Gentlemen," an impossible "Nemo's origami "Nautilus"," a cautionary fable to complaining fans, and "Campion Bond's moral maze." Volume II received the 2003 Eisner Award for Best Finite Series/Limited Series. Time Magazine listed it as the 9th best comic of 2003. It was nominated for the 2003 Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative, but lost to "". It was included in the 2005 edition of "The Year's Best Graphic Novels, Comics, & Manga". The series has been collected into the following volumes: Jess Nevins' annotations for this volume are available in a book entitled "A
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Huggy Leaver Huggy Leaver (born Hugh Leaver), sometimes credited as Huggy Lever, is a British actor and former vocalist of The Plastix, an early UK Punk band. He has appeared in "Trial & Retribution", "Birds of a Feather", "A Touch of Frost" and "Black Books". He also played Paul in "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and Mario in the 2000 film "Going Off Big Time" and appeared as a cab driver in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and the pawn shop owner in "Fast & Furious 6". More recently, he played the recurrent role of Clint in "EastEnders" and
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Unextraordinary Gentlemen Unextraordinary Gentlemen (UXG) is a musical project formed in Los Angeles in 2005 by bassist/keyboardist Richard Pilawski (previously with the surf punk band Sex with Lurch) & vocalist/lyricist Eric Schreeck to "...explore our love for post-punk, synth-pop, industrial & experimental music combined with the literary genre of Victorian fantasy." The project went public in early 2007, joined by Jennifer Pomerantz (of Demonika & The Darklings) on violin. The band's name is a tongue-in-cheek nod to Alan Moore's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". UXG has been called one of the "foremost of the musical assets of... steampunk" and has
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Confession" the general is stated to be Rosa Coote's grandfather. The character is probably based on the real-life Theresa Berkley who ran a brothel in Soho in the 1830s. The character reappears in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. She is Headmistress of the Correctional Academy for Wayward Gentlewomen, where the League discover Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, impregnating her students (who believe he is the "Holy Spirit"). Rosa Coote Rosa Coote is a fictional dominatrix appearing as a stock character in a number of works of Victorian erotica, including "The Convent School, or Early
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Soames and Italian criminal mastermind Count Zero (both from Frank Richards's "Greyfriars School" series)—before disbanding. During the course of the mission, the Iron Warrior was accidentally destroyed. This marked the end of the League as a group in the employ of the British government. They later would operate outside the law as fugitives and freelancers, following their own agenda rather than that of any official masters. By 1948 a totalitarian government (Ingsoc) was in control of Britain, which denounced and denied the League in all its forms. Many came to believe the extraordinary individuals never existed, and were nothing more
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the League itself with it. An aerial battle above London commences, and the League eventually triumphs. Mycroft Holmes replaces Moriarty as the League's employer, and the extraordinary individuals are given the task of remaining in the service of the Crown, awaiting England's call. Some kind of a meteor shower is shown, leading up to the events in Volume II. Placed during the events of H. G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds", Volume II opens on Mars, where John Carter and Lt. Gullivar Jones (of Edwin Lester Arnold's "") have assembled an alliance to fight against Martian invaders. When the
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while Quatermain confronts the Fantom, who is unmasked as M. Dorian is also revealed to be the traitor, murders Nemo's first mate Ishmael, and steals the "Nautilus"' exploration pod. M and Dorian leave a phonograph recording for the League, revealing that their true goal is to ignite the world war and Dorian has been collecting physical elements of the League to create superhuman formulas and sell them off to the highest bidder. The "Nautilus" is damaged by bombs hidden on board, but Hyde saves it by draining the flooded engine rooms. Skinner sends a message to the League, revealing he
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known among his clientele as "Fine Art". He befriends the Oliver Twist character called Lee (played by Keivyn McNeill Grayes), the latter a black adolescent runaway. In the first edition of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's comic series "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", set in 1898 London, the Dodger briefly appears as an elderly man running his own gang of boy thieves, hinting that he is still following in Fagin's footsteps. In 2001, the Artful Dodger was the subject of an Australian children's show called "Escape of the Artful Dodger". The show followed the Artful Dodger's adventures in the Australian penal
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Sherlock Holmes. The character was used by writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill in their series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", adapted to film in 2003, based on the premise that he faked his death to enjoy a quiet retirement. The character of Allan Quatermain has been portrayed in film and television by Richard Chamberlain, John Colicos, Sean Connery, Cedric Hardwicke, and Patrick Swayze. Stewart Granger also played Quatermain in the 1950 Hollywood film adaptation of "King Solomon's Mines", which was directed by Compton Bennett. "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold" is a film released in 1987
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break out of a prison in Turkmenistan ends with Michael telling the person to swim across the Caspian Sea. Westen is also briefly mentioned in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III: 2009" as a disgruntled former CIA agent providing intelligence to MI6. Michael Westen Michael Alan Westen is a fictional character played by Jeffrey Donovan in the television series "Burn Notice", created by Matt Nix. Michael, a spy and former Special Forces Operative of the Green Berets and Army Rangers, is widely known as a top CIA operative. As a result, in many circles he is greatly feared. He
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extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, it was decided to wind up the football club. This was despite Nuneaton Town being financially sound (having sold their Manor Park ground to Nuneaton Corporation the previous December). Following the disbandment of 'the Boro' by its shareholders, a new group of 'local gentlemen' decided to reform the football club. The new name "Nuneaton Borough" reflected the royal charter status that the town had been granted. Club Nickname: 'The Boro' "League" "Cup" In March 1983, George Best played for Nuneaton Borough in a friendly match against Coventry City, and he scored from a penalty. In
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by the Hughes Brothers. The film made a number of radical differences from the original comic, altering the main character from an older, conservative detective to a young character played by Johnny Depp. This was followed in 2003 with "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", a film that departed radically from the books, changing the ending from a mob war over the skies of London to the infiltration of a secret base in Tibet. For these two works, Moore was content to allow the filmmakers to do whatever they wished and removed himself from the process entirely. "As long as I
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understand the invaluable asset that Jess represented... I realised that if we had [him] tracking down all of the references for the readers, then we could be as obscure and far-reaching as we wanted...", Moore later said Nevins' work helped inform "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II": "The New Traveller's Almanac": "The patient work contained within this current volume ["Heroes & Monsters"] has played an important part in the construction of this vast, imaginary global edifice that we're constructing... [the Almanac]", Moore sees "these companion volumes as having a necessary organic place in the body of the work itself."
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leader of the Haddo cult. The next morning, the League meet with Jerry Cornelius, who tells them Andrew Norton is due to reappear at King's Cross. When Norton does appear, he continues to speak almost exclusively in cryptic riddles referencing works of fiction and events in the future, but he does reveal Haddo's spirit has been transferring into other bodies for years, including Karswell Trelawney and Kosmo Gallion, and directs the League's investigation towards a nightclub called the Flying Cylinder. Before leaving, Norton warns that by the time they meet again in 2009, the League will be "too late" to
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of the sketch comedy series "Robot Chicken" titled "Major League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" includes a skit that stars Mr. Krabs and Pearl. The segment, animated in stop motion like most other sketches on the program, features Mr. Krabs using crab legs as the secret ingredient for Krabby Patties. A track on "The Best Day Ever", a 2006 soundtrack album, titled "Fishin' for Money" features the vocal performance of Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs. In the 2017 Broadway musical based on "SpongeBob", Krabs, played by Brian Ray Norris, sings a duet with Pearl titled "Daddy Knows Best," an original composition written
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in an ambulance against her will, thus failing to rejoin her teammates. Mina's disappearance leads Allan to fall back into drug addiction. In the late 1970s, Orlando leaves Quatermain and joins the British Army. By 2009, the League is defunct, until Orlando, recently discharged from the British Army, is tasked by Prospero to eliminate the Antichrist, and is reunited with Mina, and a now homeless and once-again drug addicted Allan who at first refuses to join them. Meanwhile, Jack Nemo, the last descendant of Captain Nemo, is waging a terrorist campaign in the Middle East. The League battles the Antichrist,
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physically approaches the League as M, with no presence of Campion Bond. The revelation is not made clear until well into the film's climax, with no reference to Sherlock Holmes or Moriarty apparent at any earlier point. The film also mimics "Volume One" in a sequence where the Invisible Man (here named Rodney Skinner, a thief who stole Griffin's invisibility formula) departs from the team to spy on the antagonists while the League wrongly accuse him of betraying the group. Subtle references to the comic are also made in the background, such as a mutual newspaper front page which speculates
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book series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", as well as a Borg and Geordi La Forge from "Star Trek". When Comic Book Guy meets a girl with similar interests to him at the convention, Alexander Courage's piece "Under the Spell" from the original "Star Trek" pilot "" is played. A booth for the comic book "Roswell, Little Green Man" is seen at the convention; the comic was published by Groening's Bongo Comics Group. The episode contains multiple references to "Star Wars", the film series in which Hamill starred. Throughout the episode, Hamill wears the costume of his "Star Wars" character
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London docks, as well as a letter from the Earl of Gurney confessing to all the Ripper crimes, so he orders for MacHeath to be freed without charge and sends the League to the docks. When they arrive, Orlando fends off the pirates with Excalibur, and amidst the chaos Mina runs into Janni, who recognises her from her previous visit to Lincoln Island in 1898. As the "Nautilus" departs, Janni invites Mina to join the crew should she ever decide to forsake government work. Mina berates the League for their reckless actions, and as they leave the ruined docks, MacHeath
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prevent a resurrected Tony Montana and his occult gang, the Lost Boys, from killing all those between him and domination of America. In the aftermath of the events of the novel "Dracula", a now disgraced and divorced Mina Harker (née Murray) is recruited by Campion Bond on behalf of British Intelligence and asked to assemble a league of other extraordinary individuals to protect the interests of the Empire. Together with Captain Nemo, Mina travels to Cairo to locate Allan Quatermain, then on to Paris in search of Dr. Jekyll; finally in London she forcibly recruits Hawley Griffin, The Invisible Man,
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into one world. Elements of Volume I were used in a loosely adapted feature film of the same name, released in 2003 and starring Sean Connery. A reboot was announced in May 2015. The year is 1898, and Mina Murray is recruited by Campion Bond on behalf of British Intelligence and asked to assemble a league of other extraordinary individuals to protect the interests of the Empire: Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, Dr. Jekyll, and Hawley Griffin the Invisible Man. They help stop a gang war between Fu Manchu and Professor Moriarty, nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. Following this they take part
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assailant's point of view. Shah won critical acclaim by playing the role of Mohit, the drunken coach to a deaf and mute boy in "Iqbal", which was written by Vipul K Rawal with Shah specially in mind. Shah was praised for his roles in the 1999 Aamir Khan-starrer "Sarfarosh," where he played Gulfam Hassan – a "ghazal" singer-cum-terrorist mastermind — and in Neeraj Pandey's critically acclaimed "A Wednesday" (2008). Shah has also starred in international projects, such as "Monsoon Wedding" in 2001 and a Hollywood comic book adaptation "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" in 2003 (co-starring Sean Connery), where he
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Aftab Sachak Aftab Sachak (born 16 July 1952) is an Afghan-born British actor. Born in London, he went to an English public school before studying acting. He made his television debut in "King of the Ghetto" in 1986 and played the serious minded shop keeper, Ashraf Karim, in the BBC soap opera, "EastEnders" (1987–1990). Since leaving "EastEnders" he has appeared in the BBC comedy "Waiting for God" (1993), "Brothers in Trouble" (1995), "Call Red" (1996), "Out of Sight" (1996–1998), "The Bill" (1999), "Hope & Glory" (2000), "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (2003) and "Second Generation" (2003) among others. On stage,
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Two Smoking Barrels". In the early 2000s he featured in two big-budget Hollywood films which were adaptations of Alan Moore comic books; as John Netley in 2001's "From Hell", with Johnny Depp, and 2003's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", with Sean Connery, in which Flemyng played Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde. The latter film was not a success, but Flemyng commented that: "It was a bit of a nightmare... the film cost a fortune and didn't make back the money it was meant to... But I still get a huge kick out of doing films like that and "From
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Island", where Lionel Barrymore played 'André Dakkar'. The prison island where Nemo and his fellow captives are held by Robur is called Rura Penthe; this is a reference to the slave factory island from the film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". It was due to having written "Captain Nemo" that Pocket Books approached Anderson to write the novelization of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" film. Anderson would later go on to write a similarly themed novel covering H. G. Wells and his works, entitled "The Martian War". Verne is mentioned several times in the book. Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History
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hurtled down was a cricket bat, much battered and ominously stained. The blade was split and bound in places with lengths of brass wire.<br> 'Ho! I crack skulls!' howled a terrible voice. 'Tremble, little men who serve He-of-the-Chin! The Shadow of the Wolf falls upon you!' In "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", the Wolf of Kabul appears in "" as William Samson, Jr., son of the League's coach driver in Volume II, William Samson, Sr. He joined a hastily strung-together version of the League commanded by Joan Worralson, but her repeated rebuffing of his advances strained relations, albeit not for
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has become a dystopia rife with poverty and depression, Orlando's gender switches to female. Prospero – outraged by the League's continuous failure to stop Oliver Haddo – appears and reveals the Antichrist has already been born, therefore the League only have a limited time to prevent Armageddon. In desperation, Orlando approaches the elderly Emma Night, the current head of MI5, and offers her the secret to immortality in exchange for help finding Mina. After speaking with Night she is briefly reunited with Allan, who has become a homeless drug addict, but he panics and flees before she can talk to
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by Professor Selwyn Cavor and using Cavorite to power and levitate heavier-than-air machines. The League are dispatched to London's Limehouse district in order to learn more about Fu Manchu. Mina and Griffin question Quong Lee (a storyteller from books by Thomas Burke), who reveals that Manchu is indeed operating within the area, but only gives them information in the form of a cryptic riddle: "The waters lap beneath the heavenly bridge. The dragon sleeps below it. My advice to you: do not awaken it." Although Griffin is sceptical, Mina concludes that Manchu's activities must be taking place beneath Rotherhithe Bridge.
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together with Dr. Moreau and Hawley Griffin, who help develop a strain of cholera to be used against the Martians. Wells travels to the Moon to free the Selenites, who have been enslaved by the Martians, who join forces to end the Martian menace once and for all. The premise is similar to the earlier "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II" as both involve a group of literary figures being brought together by a secret agency of the British government to fight the Martians. Both books end the invasion by using a biological weapon, and Griffin and Moreau are
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peace with it, only to be incinerated by a powerful heat-ray from the craft. As the heat-ray kills the onlookers gathered around the crater's edge, Dr Jekyll turns into Mr Hyde, who threatens the alien with violent death. Mina manages to calm Hyde down, and the League retreat to the nearby Bleak House Inn. Later that day, the British armed forces arrive in the area, and Griffin sees another spaceship falling from the sky towards Woking. Mina checks on Hyde, and they have a compassionate conversation about their friendship, which is something Hyde does not feel he shares with the
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has sneaked aboard the exploration pod and telling them to follow his heading. The League reach northern Mongolia, reuniting with Skinner, where they plot to destroy M's factory with explosives. Nemo and Hyde rescue the scientists, Skinner sets the explosive charges, while Mina battles Dorian, killing him by exposing him to his portrait. Quatermain and Sawyer confront M, identifying him as Professor James Moriarty, the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, who took on a new alias after his alleged death at the Reichenbach Falls. Sawyer is taken hostage by an invisible Reed; Quatermain shoots the latter, only for Moriarty to fatally
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Tony Curran Tony Curran (born 1969) is a Scottish actor who has appeared in "", "Doctor Who", "Roots" and the Netflix historical epic "Outlaw King". Curran was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1969. He is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In 2012, he married Mai Nguyen. Curran appeared in the BBC television series "This Life". Since then, the Scots star has appeared in a number of major film and television roles. Some of his roles have included Rodney Skinner ("The Invisible Man"), an original character in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". To portray the
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the Yorkshire Gentlemen's Ground. The Wasps would use Wigginton Road as one of their home grounds until 1989. The stadium, in its time, played host to many Australian and New Zealand national rugby league teams who played tour games against York, the Yorkshire representative team or an English League XIII. Wigginton Road Cricket Ground Wigginton Road Cricket Ground in York is a former cricket ground. Its one and only first-class match was held in June 1890 between Yorkshire and Kent. The ground was then known as the Yorkshire Gentlemen Cricket Club Ground, having been used by the Yorkshire Gentlemen from
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annotations to "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (first published in 1999). Younger readers have also been targeted by steampunk themes, by authors such as Philip Reeve and Scott Westerfeld. Reeve's quartet "Mortal Engines" is set far in Earth's future where giant moving cities consume each other in a battle for resources, a concept Reeve coined as "Municipal Darwinism". Westerfeld's "Leviathan" trilogy is set during an alternate First World War fought between the "clankers" (Central Powers), who use steam technology, and "darwinists" (Allied Powers), who use genetically engineered creatures instead of machines. "Mash-ups" are also becoming increasingly popular in books aimed
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their estates), but who are nevertheless considered iconic or 'mythic' enough to be recognised from a few character traits or descriptions without being directly named (thus not requiring royalties payments to be made to the copyright holder). A prominent example occurs within "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One", wherein a character who is clearly intended in appearance and description by other characters to be Dr. Fu Manchu appears as a significant villain; however, as this character was not in the public domain at the time of writing and the rights still held by the estate of his creator Sax
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with fans of esoteric Victoriana, who have delighted in attempting to place every character who makes an appearance. Moore said: Moore's long-standing outspoken criticism of DC Comics (stemming in large part from his perceived mistreatment at their hands over the rights to "Watchmen") made his position with DC-owned subsidiary Wildstorm Comics (of which "LoEG" publisher America's Best Comics is an imprint) tenuous from the start. Moore's initial agreement was with WildStorm owner Jim Lee, who sold his studio to DC after dealing with Moore, but before any of the ABC projects were published. Moore agreed to honor his contracts with
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two examples. Coogan's remit, therefore, is to clarify these issues and: Sanderson also notes that Coogan - and his publisher, MonkeyBrain, who also publish Jess Nevins' annotations on Alan Moore's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" - are not following the common trend in academic circles to largely ignore the superhero genre when comics are discussed. Coogan seeks to define not merely the superhero as a character, but also the genre itself, thereby discussing not just individual attributes, but types of story, noting that the superhero: Coogan's definition makes reference to DC's lawsuit against Victor Fox, who published Wonder Man in
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