THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN Reboot In The Works At Fox
Alan Moore's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic is awesome, the 2003 Sean Connery movie based on it... isn't. But it seems 20th Century Fox now plans on trying to right the wrongs of that cinematic atrocity with a big-screen reboot. More details after the jump...
Alan Moore will be delighted! After one disastrous movie and a TV series attempt back in 2013, Fox is having another crack at the notoriously grouchy writer's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. According to Variety (confirming a report from The Tracking Board), the studio is planning another big-screen outing for Allan Quatermain, Mina Harker, Dr. Jekyll and the rest of the motley crew of Victorian-era literary icons.
There are three full volumes of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and several accompanying miniseries too, so Fox will have plenty to mine from. The later stories saw the introduction of characters as diverse as Sherlock Holmes, Mary Poppins, and even a demonic incarnation of Harry Potter.
John Davis is producing through his Davis Entertainment banner, with Ira Napoliello and Matt Reilly overseeing production of the reboot.
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