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Overview

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Director:
Stephen Norrington
Writers (WGA):
Alan Moore (comic books) and
Kevin O'Neill (comic books) ...
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Release Date:
11 July 2003 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Prepare for the Extraordinary more
Plot:
In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, SF and adventure characters team up on a secret mission. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
6 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(43 articles)
Stephen Moyer, Sam Neil and Frances O'Connor topline distaster epic Ice
 (From QuietEarth. 4 November 2009, 2:31 PM, PST)

Librarians fired over Alan Moore comic
 (From digitalspy. 28 October 2009, 6:37 AM, PDT)

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An underestimated but very interesting movie more (742 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Die Liga der außergewöhnlichen Gentlemen (Germany)
LXG (USA) (promotional abbreviation)
LXG: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (USA) (trailer title)
Liga výjimecných (Czech Republic)
The League (USA) (promotional title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of fantasy violence, language and innuendo.
Runtime:
110 min
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Calgary, Alberta, Canada more
Company:
Angry Films more

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Trivia:
LXG takes place in an alternate universe where technology is more advanced in 1899 than it was in real life. Aside from the use of an automobile and other advanced devices, we also see Captain Nemo's crew using sonar and Nemo refers to solar power many years before they were invented. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: While the League waits for Skinner in the frozen wasteland, nobody's breath is visible. This is especially telling for Skinner when he arrives, as you can see the outline of his body from the fallen snow but not his breath when he speaks. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Sanderson Reed: [to coachman] Don't... wander... off.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Assembling the League (2003) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Promenade by the Sea more

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174 out of 259 people found the following comment useful.
An underestimated but very interesting movie, 28 August 2004
Author: realteng from Middle-earth

This movie was badly criticised by many critics and fans... I don't believe that the movie's quality was 'low', but i detect two reasons:

1. 'what? automobiles, submarines, rockets, tanks, automatic rifles, explosions that sank Venice? all those in 1899? no way!'

OK, those people maybe don't know that the movie is based on a comic book!! The comic book is fantasy, it is in an alternate Jules-Verne-like universe where all fiction was real... That book (and this movie) belong to the genre 'Steampunk', a movement that is interested in presenting an alternate Victorian age with an extra-evolved steam driven science that never actually existed. IF you read the comic you will see that: a bridge that connects England and France, technology made by Tesla and Edison, zeppelins, airships, anti-gravity devices... some of these are indeed mentioned in science fiction works of that time, and since the comic is set in that kind of universe, then all these are real.

The book (and the movie) don't want to convince you that these events actually happened in 1899. The movie doesn't want to tell you that Venice was half-sunk by an explosion and was later rebuilt. It is just another universe, an alternate reality... it's fantasy!

there have been some Steampunk movies, and were never considered serious: for example Van Helsing and Wild Wild West. They were too much, too unreal... but if you accept that they happen in a Steampunk universe you will enjoy them

(i suggest you make a search for 'Steampunk' online.. Wikipedia is a good start)

now to the other reason

2. 'LXG is not faithful to the comic book'

no, it wasn't but they didn't want to adapt THE book into a movie! can someone who watched Spiderman 2 tell me on WHICH issue of the spiderman comic book series that movie was adapted?

Spiderman 1 and 2, (and all the comic-book movies) are not trying to adapt a certain issue of the Spidey series into a movie: they try to compress some events and characters from Spidey's universe and present them combined on screen

i don't think that LXG was less faithful to the comic book than Spiderman or Batman were to their respective originals... LXG wanted to tell a story that happened in a universe similar to that of the 'League' comic book, not a certain story of the series..

i hope that if all could understand this, they would enjoy this movie as it really should be enjoyed

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