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07-30-2002, 10:12 PM
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Extraordinary Gentlemen start production today!
From a Fox press release:
PRAGUE - Principal photography has begun on “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” starring Sean Connery, and based on the acclaimed graphic serial strips by Alan Moore (From Hell) and Kevin O’ Neill. Directed by Stephen Norrington (“Blade”) from a screenplay by James Robinson, the film is produced by Don Murphy (“From Hell,” “Natural Born Killers”) and executive produced by Trevor Albert and Mark Gordon. The line producer is Mike Nelson.
Set in Victorian England, the film centers around a team of extraordinary figures culled from great adventure literature who are recruited by a mysterious caller to stop a villain intent on turning the nations of the world against one another. This remarkable coterie of heroes is led by Allan Quartermain (Connery) and comprises Dracula vampiress Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), the Invisible Man (Tony Curran), Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Jason Flemyng), Tom Sawyer (Shane West), Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), and Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend).
Filmmakers include director of photography Dan Lausten (“Giselle”), production designer Carol Spier (“Blade 2: Bloodhunt”), costume designer Jacqueline West (“Quills”), and Oscar nominated editor Paul Rubell (“The Insider”). The film’s extensive visual effects are being designed by Academy Award winner Janek Sirrs (“The Matrix”), while Steve Johnson (“Blade 2“) and his Edge FX are creating creature designs for the characters of Mr. Hyde and vampiress Mina Harker, along with special fx makeup for Dorian Gray and the Invisible Man.
Principal photography on the 17-week shoot will occur almost entirely in Prague, with additional shooting in Vienna and Malta, concluding in late October. |
The more I hear about this movie, the more excited I get. I gotta pick up the novel! |
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07-31-2002, 01:51 AM
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What the? OK, breathe in and say it with me: COMIC BOOK. IT'S BASED ON A COMIC BOOK! 
Coincidentally, Volume 2, Issue 1 of the comic just came out recently. Check it out! Martians! 
\"The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize it.\" -Stanley Kubrick
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07-31-2002, 10:01 AM
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After the huge fiscal success of recent comic adapted films, I don't understand why Fox would feel the need to play word games to avoid putting "comic book" in the PR.
Looking forward to the teaser, then a full trailer.
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07-31-2002, 10:19 AM
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What the? OK, breathe in and say it with me: COMIC BOOK. IT'S BASED ON A COMIC BOOK!
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Can you imagine if they applied the same attitude toward movies? We wouldn't have movies. We'd have "cinematographic moving picture productions" or some such 
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Coincidentally, Volume 2, Issue 1 of the comic just came out recently. Check it out! Martians!
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Pretty amazing how they combined seemingly every major fantasy depiction of Mars into one continuity. Such a cool series. If only it could come out more regularly  |
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07-31-2002, 11:01 AM
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Supposedly, the reason for the long delay between Volume One and Volume 2 is so that Kevin O'Neill could get far enough ahead that it can come out monthly.
I wonder how far Norrington & company are going to go in terms of cramming details into corners. Moore and O'Neill went positively insane with it. Regardless, this is something I'm looking forward to, big-time.
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07-31-2002, 02:42 PM
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I was just reading about this. Man this is great news. |
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07-31-2002, 08:10 PM
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Here's a little news on this from the inside.
A good friend of mine is actually one of the co-producers on this film and works very closely with Don Murphy (whom I have met a few times..what a character!).
He just got back from a month long stay in Prague and told me that shooting actually began about a month ago and things are going great. He had dinner with Sean Connery and said he was one of the coolest people you would ever want to meet. He is said to be great in the film, which he thinks will be a huge hit.
Has anyone read the screenplay? He is sending it out to me today. Can't wait to read it.:b
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07-31-2002, 09:44 PM
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The Gentlemen comic book is a rousing adventure tale, IMHO, mixing wicked humor and excellent action with some neat plot twists and some rather shocking character actions; for instance:
I think it's a testament to Alan Moore's writing that he can take a group of tortured individuals--almost all of whom have a serious psychological/mental problem--and turn them into a group of heroes you can root for.
The book was published in a collected hardcover edition, which has recently gone OOP. However, there will be a TPB edition coming out in September, I believe. Can't recommend it enough.
On the topic of the movie: while reading the book, I thought to myself that if Stephen Norrington sticks closely to the source material, there is LITERALLY no way he can screw it up. However, with the addition of characters like Dorian Gray and Tom Sawyer(!), I'm starting to get a little worried. But I'll be optimistic.
And kudos to whomever cast Connery as Allan Quartermain. Genius!
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07-31-2002, 10:10 PM
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I don't have a source for this, but I recall reading an interview with Moore when he mentioned Gray and Sawyer were written out of the comic, but were there in earlier drafts. Don't forget, Tom Sawyer became a detective later in life!
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