It's about time they remade The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

[Breogan]

TV series no longer in development - 20th Century Fox decided to go back to the source for a movie reboot - http://www.tracking-board.com/tb-exc...ary-gentlemen/

So which League do you want to see appear?

And who would you cast?

17th Century- Prospero's Men
18th Century- Gulliver's League
19th Century- Wilhelmina's First League
20th Century- Wilhelmina's Second League
21st Century League?

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[Octoberist]

The problem with this reboot is that it doesn't clue you if they want to be more faithful to the comic or not.

But the last film was just disastrous, in how it destroyed Stephen Norrington's career, and was the movie when Connery called it quits.

 

[Octoberist]

BTW, I can't believe that he's been for that long. I mean, what has he been doing for the past 10 years?

 

[Fallen Angel]

I hope they don't adapt anything after the third volume.

 

[Jason Kane]

Be careful what you wish for OP....

 

[dude stannis]

I'll stick with Penny Dreadful. Maybe they can bring in Norrington to do an episode or two. I do think Tom Rothman deserves some kind of physical beating for ruining a human being's career.

 

[Lord]

I hope they don't adapt anything after the third volume.

Didn't read Black Dossier or Volume III yet, seems very nonsensical with Harry Potter as the anti-christ and all that, is it worth trying?

 

[Fallen Angel]

Didn't read Black Dossier or Volume III yet, seems very nonsensical with Harry Potter as the anti-christ and all that, is it worth trying?

Black Dossier is the one off but Volume three is okay not a patch on the first two though.

 

[Jason Kane]

I'll stick with Penny Dreadful. Maybe they can bring in Norrington to do an episode or two. I do think Tom Rothman deserves some kind of physical beating for ruining a human being's career.

Norrington chose to botch the damn film. Rothman was just another ingredient to the mess

 

[Lord]

Black Dossier is the one off but Volume three is okay not a patch on the first two though.

Realy? Thought Black Dossier was interesting, going all the way to the 50s setting and all.

 

[Gee]

‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ Reboot to Be Female-Centric
http://collider.com/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-reboot-female-centric/

JOHN DAVIS: Just by going back to the roots and making it authentic to what the fan base was really excited about. It’s female-centric, which I think is interesting. I love female characters, point-of-view characters in action movies. I thought Mad Max was great. I think you can always find a fresh way of doing something and going back to the basics. What is that people love? What is it that made them love the property in the first place?

 

[Batmannerism]

Not everything that was ever a comic book needs to be made into a movie.

I'm sure someone out there is thinking that Archie would make a great live-action film.......... but that doesn't make them right.

LOEG is one of those things that really doesn't need to be made into a film

In fact, while the first chapter, and maybe the second have enough of a narrative to make reasonable films/tv series, after that it all goes bat****
crazy........kind of like Alan Moore.

IMO this is one series that didn't need a film in the first place, and sure as hell doesn't need a reboot.

Similarly Grant Morrison's "The INvisibles" is brilliant, but only some chapters are linear or remotely coherent enough to be even close to be worth making into films ( "Bloody Hell in America" and that's about it). The rest of it, especially the ending.......not so much.

 

[gdw]

‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ Reboot to Be Female-Centric
http://collider.com/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-reboot-female-centric/

Just was reading this.

Let's do what Ghostbusters is doing, that will work, right?

That said, I did seeing something like this, if they can draw from more female literary, and historical, characters and people, but not done because they're attempting to ride feminism's coattails, or even worse, just because they see the aforementioned GB reboot doing it, and they thought Mad Max was good.

 

[Fallen Angel]

He also say's going back to its' root's. So happy with that.

 

[Airwings]

I know it won't happen but it would be really interesting if they did a "comic book hero" version of the property.
Starring The Phantom, Mandrake, Zorro, Tarzan, Tintin, Popeye, Hellboy, a mystery adventure set in the 1930s, the league is trying to prevent the nazis from experiementing with the occult (that where Hellboy comes in)

 

[Breogan]

I know it won't happen but it would be really interesting if they did a "comic book hero" version of the property.
Starring The Phantom, Mandrake, Zorro, Tarzan, Tintin, Popeye, Hellboy, a mystery adventure set in the 1930s, the league is trying to prevent the nazis from experiementing with the occult (that where Hellboy comes in)

That wouldn't be League of Extraordinary Gentlemen though.
Just random pulp heroes.
If you do want just that variations on the theme - did you check out Dynamite's MASKS
Which unites sevral pulp era characters, would make a great film.

Their Kings Watch.
Which unites several classic Comic Strip heroes.

Or their Lords of Mars?
Which unites the Edgar Rice Burroughs heroes.

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[Breogan]

So which League would you use, ...?

And who would you cast?

17th Century- Prospero's Men
18th Century- Gulliver's League ...?
19th Century- Wilhelmina's First League ...(reboot cast?)?
20th Century- Wilhelmina's Second League ...?
21st Century League ...?

I'd love to see them reboot and start with with Prospero's Men - In Glrioana's Secret Service.

Prospero - Jeremy Irons
Ariel - Emma Watson
Caliban - Dave Bautista
Orlando -Cate Blanchet
Robert Owemuch - Hugh Jackman
Don Quixote - Javier Bardem
Amber St. Clair - Hayley Atwell
Christian - Douglas Booth

? 17th Century- 1600s Prospero's Men ?

?18th Century 1700s- Gulliver's Fellowship / League ?

Time Travelers League????

? 19th Century 1800s - Wilhelmina's First League ? (reboot cast?)

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? 20th Century 1900s- Wilhelmina's Second League?

Mid-Late 20th 1940s? Warralson League ?

? 21st Century Seven Stars League ?

 

[Tg11]

Go with a 21st century vibe

 

[Herofan]

The comic (volume 1) to me felt very too shock value-y and also a little pretentious, too impressed by its own concept and cynicism. The movie felt very bland, maybe especially with how it did Jekyll & Hyde, but something much more faithful would have probably failed a different way. The point of the premise, at least in screen terms, seems to be nostalgia for revisiting liked literary characters but Moore seemed from nostalgic for the characters, their books or general eras.

I think the concept would have been better with the team being a cast of characters that were actually good characters like Mina (arguably Nemo), maybe either just Jekyll or Gray (or maybe Invisible Man) as the only dubious member, more than one, or even one, makes it seem a little too predictable that they'll probably betray and stupid that the leader/organizer didn't anticipate that.