The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film)
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| Directed by | Stephen Norrington |
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| Screenplay by | James Dale Robinson |
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore Kevin O'Neill |
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| Music by | Trevor Jones |
| Cinematography | Dan Laustsen |
| Edited by | Paul Rubell |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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110 minutes |
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| Budget | $78 million |
| Box office | $179.3 million |
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, also promoted as LXG, is a 2003 steampunk-dieselpunk action adventure 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, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemyng, and Richard Roxburgh.
As with the comic book source material, the film features prominent pastiche and crossover themes set in the late 19th century, featuring an assortment of fictional literary characters appropriate to the period, who act as Victorian Era superheroes. It draws on the works of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Ian Fleming, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Gaston Leroux, and Mark Twain, albeit all adapted for the film.
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