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  • Director Stephen Norrington And Sean Connery Fought About Absolutely Everything on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#1) Director Stephen Norrington And Sean Connery Fought About Absolutely Everything

    Sean Connery and director Stephen Norrington did not get along. "Connery isn’t very pleased with how this is going,” a crew member told Entertainment Weekly. ”He’s not used to being kept waiting on a movie set. I mean, he’s 72 years old. And he’s Sean Connery.” That crew member was referring to their current situation, which saw Connery sitting in his trailer for several hours while Norrington fussed with camera angles and lighting. 

    And before you go assuming Connery was just being an over-demanding actor, it's worth noting more complaints came out of the crew about Norrington. "This director doesn’t know what he wants,” another crew member complained to EW. "He’ll do 10 setups when you usually only do two. Most of this movie is going to end up on the cutting-room floor - if it ever gets finished.”

  • Production Shut Down For A Full Day Because A Prop Didn't Look Realistic Enough on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#2) Production Shut Down For A Full Day Because A Prop Didn't Look Realistic Enough

    The best example of director Stephen Norrington's tyranny is the time he shut down production for a full day because he felt a prop didn't look sufficiently realistic. This led to one of the many "shouting matches" between Sean Connery and Norrington, one that was even rumored to result in a physical altercation between the two, with some saying they almost came to blows, while others reported they actually did throw punches.

    A stagehand told EW, "I’ve never been on a set as tense as this. Everybody just wants to go home.”

  • Stephen Norrington May Have Even Told Sean Connery To Punch Him on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#3) Stephen Norrington May Have Even Told Sean Connery To Punch Him

    There were a lot of different stories coming out of the set, often contradictory ones about the exact way things went down between Sean Connery and Stephen Norrington. An anonymous crew worker said Norrington provoked Connery, allegedly saying, “I'm sick of it! Come on, I want you to punch me in the face.”

    Connery recalls Norrington simply asking, “Do you want to hit me?” to which he responded, “Don’t tempt me.” There did seem to be some agreement that Connery threatened to have Norrington fired. In the end, it's remarkable they finished the movie together at all.

  • Connery Accepted The Role Because He'd Just Passed On Two Successful Films He Didn't Understand on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#4) Connery Accepted The Role Because He'd Just Passed On Two Successful Films He Didn't Understand

    Sean Connery famously turned down the role of Gandalf in the first Lord of the Rings film as well as that of Morpheus in The Matrix. Obviously, from a financial standpoint, these moves were ill-advised at best. But when Connery read the scripts, he just couldn't understand what they were trying to do, so he passed.

    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was no different. Connery read the script, concluded it was another nerdy project, then accepted the role of Allan Quatermain precisely for the same reason he passed on the previous two roles. That proved to be another grand miscalculation. 

  • Norrington's Experience Directing 'LXG' Was So Bad He Promised Never To Direct Another Movie on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#5) Norrington's Experience Directing 'LXG' Was So Bad He Promised Never To Direct Another Movie

    Stephen Norrington only has a few directorial credits under his belt, but a couple are rather big: Blade in 1998, then The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, released in 2003. As of 2019, he hasn't directed anything since. Perhaps that isn't too surprising because, following the production of LXG, he claimed he'd never direct another movie.

    That said, Norrington has been involved in other film projects, and has even been slated to direct a couple of big films since, namely a long-rumored reboot of The Crow, but he dropped out of that project (which has yet to be made anyway), as well as an unmade supernatural thriller titled The Lost Patrol. Since it seems like he's tried fervently to return to directing, he'll probably be at the helm of another film before it's all said and done.

  • The Source Material Was Largely Ignored Due To Proprietary Necessities And Executive Overreach on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#6) The Source Material Was Largely Ignored Due To Proprietary Necessities And Executive Overreach

    There is no Tom Sawyer in the graphic novel version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. That was an addition made by Fox, possibly to make the movie more attractive to American audiences.

    What's more, Fox couldn't get the rights to some of the characters, like The Invisible Man. In the movie, he's simply an invisible man - a guy with the made-up name Rodney Skinner - who manages to get his hands on an experimental substance that allows him to become invisible, as opposed to him being the creator of said innovation as The Invisible Man is in the source material. Dorian Grey (Stuart Townsend) was also added, presumably to inject a little more (apparent) youth into the project.

  • Alan Moore, The Creator Of 'LXG,' Didn't Even Deign To See The Movie on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#7) Alan Moore, The Creator Of 'LXG,' Didn't Even Deign To See The Movie

    When Fox wanted Alan Moore to take a look at the script and provide feedback, he apparently declined as he "wanted nothing to do with the film," according to LXG illustrator Kevin O'Neill. There are rumors Moore saw the film (and hated it), but others report Moore claims to never have seen it.

    It's unclear where the truth lies, but whether or not he actually saw the movie, he's definitely not happy about what they did to his work. 

  • The Producer Bought The Graphic Novel Rights And Started Planning The Movie Before The Books Even Came Out on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#8) The Producer Bought The Graphic Novel Rights And Started Planning The Movie Before The Books Even Came Out

    Part of the large and glaring differences between the graphic novel and the film has to do with a lack of coordination between the studio and Alan Moore, who was still writing the series when Fox set to work on the movie. As a result, Fox pretty much felt they had a lot of freedom in telling the story however they wanted to tell it.

    That said, it still took them a while to write a final script, about which illustrator Kevin O'Neill said, "I don't recognize any of this - the Bank of England, Venice. The character names were similar, but they added Tom Sawyer. It was a bit of an odd thing and I didn't think much more of it... They made the film they set out to make…it's nothing to do with our [League]."

  • Sean Connery Quit Acting As A Direct Result Of The Film on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#9) Sean Connery Quit Acting As A Direct Result Of The Film

    “It was a nightmare,” said Sean Connery of his experience with LXG in a 2006 interview with British newspaper The Times. “The experience had a great influence on me, it made me think about showbiz. I get fed up dealing with idiots.” That was essentially when Connery announced his retirement, yet he'd already apparently made that decision as he'd only appeared in two small, non-film roles since LXG. As of 2019, he's only had one additional credit to his name: the universally panned Sir Billi.

    "I'm fed up with the idiots..." he reiterated to the New Zealand Herald"the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who greenlight the movies." He now spends his time golfing, so don't worry too much about him.

  • Just As Filming Began, The Worst Weather In Over 100 Years Hit Europe, Causing $7 Million In Damage To The Production on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#10) Just As Filming Began, The Worst Weather In Over 100 Years Hit Europe, Causing $7 Million In Damage To The Production

    When destructive storms struck Europe in the late summer of 2002, including the filming location of Prague, there was immediate chaos. Flooding caused $7 million in damage to the production alone, and much of the cast and crew actually had to leave Prague for safer conditions.

    All in all, production was delayed by two weeks right out of the gate. An inauspicious start, to say the least. However, Fox wasn't willing to accept any excuses, so the production was not given more time; they were just told to finish the project in more of a hurry, chafing director Stephen Norrington pretty much on day one.

  • The Weather Took A Toll On Sean Connery, Who Lost Many Of His Possessions on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#11) The Weather Took A Toll On Sean Connery, Who Lost Many Of His Possessions

    Sean Connery may have paid the largest price as a direct result of the storms, at least for any one individual - though he didn't lose $7 million worth of stuff like the production as a whole, he did lose a lot of things. When Connery was forced to evacuate his Prague hotel because of flooding, the only possession he could carry out with him was his set of golf clubs. He literally lost everything else he had brought with him for the extended stay in the Czech Republic.

    "Oh, yes, it’s been difficult,” Connery told Entertainment Weekly at the time. "Very, very difficult. There’s no question about it.”

  • Rumors Abound About Who Was Inappropriately Involved In The Editing Process on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#12) Rumors Abound About Who Was Inappropriately Involved In The Editing Process

    As of 2007, Connery was still negatively reminiscing about his time on LXG, as reported by Heat Vision: "The last [movie] I did, [director Stephen Norrington] was given $85 million to make a movie in Prague, but unfortunately he wasn't certified before he started because he would have been arrested for insanity. So, we worked as well as we could, and [I] ended up being heavily involved in the editing and trying to salvage." 

    Box Office Prophets claims there is also a rumor Connery became so frustrated that he kicked Norrington out of the editing suite. According to producer Don Murphy, though, Connery was never involved in the editing process. Yet another source claims Norrington himself was not really involved in the editing process. Like many elements of the production, it's a matter of rumors, with everyone being disparaged by one colleague or another. 

  • Alan Moore Didn't Think Much Of Fox's Later Plan To Adapt The Novels For TV on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#13) Alan Moore Didn't Think Much Of Fox's Later Plan To Adapt The Novels For TV

    Alan Moore's reaction to the news that Fox wanted to adapt LXG to television in 2013 was not positive; he told Entertainment Weekly he and Kevin O'Neill "had a [chuckle] about that one." 

    "When [DC Comics] did the recent Watchmen prequel comics I said all sorts of deeply offensive things about the modern entertainment industry clearly having no ideas of its own and having to go through dust bins and spittoons... to recycle things," he added. "The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn’t caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work.”

    Obviously, no such television series has happened. Perhaps Moore's own contempt for the idea had a hand in that, or maybe Fox just realized they would likely fail again. Whatever the case, it will likely be a while before we see a live-action League again; though, as is the case with seemingly every comic book property today, it's only a matter of time.

  • Fox Announced In 2015 They Were Making A Film Reboot, Which Remains A Possibility on Random 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Behind-The-Scenes Stories

    (#14) Fox Announced In 2015 They Were Making A Film Reboot, Which Remains A Possibility

    First announced in 2015, the last report detailing the status of a The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reboot dates back to 2016, which does not bode well for it actually happening anytime soon. Yet the fact remains that one was in the works. Syfy reported on it at the time, relaying Fox's announcement:

    John Davis is on board to produce through his Davis Entertainment banner. Jayson Rothwell (Silent Night) has been hired to write The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Ira Napoliello and Matt Reilly are overseeing the remake, based on Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s graphic novel of the same name, centering on Victorian-era literary characters such as Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde teaming to fight a common enemy.

    Syfy speculated that Penny Dreadful's success may have inspired the revival of this project, but even that show with a similar setting and themes only lasted three seasons; another bad omen for LXG's fate.

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League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a famous sci-fi action film that was released in 2003. The film is based on comic series of the same name by Alan Moore. Several protagonists are classic characters in 19th-century literary masterpieces. The film tells the story of 7 talented human elites fighting against evil forces. The filming project of the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen is complicated, and the whole filming process is very difficult.

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