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IMDB rating: 5.40 Plot: Renowned adventurer Allan Quatermain (Connery) leads a team of extraordinary figures with legendary powers to battle the technological terror of a madman known as “The Fantom.” This “League” comprises seafarer/inventor Captain Nemo (Shah), vampiress Mina Harker (Wilson), an invisible man named Rodney Skinner (Curran), American secret service agent Tom Sawyer (West), the ageless and invincible Dorian Gray (Townsend), and the dangerous split personality of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Flemyng). |
Actors: Flemyng Jason,Connery Sean,Townsend Stuart,Shah Naseeruddin,Curran Tony,West Shane,Roxburgh Richard,Ryan Max,Goodman-Hill Tom,Hemmings David,O’Neill Terry,Pellar Rudolf,Willox Robert,Orr Robert,Fantasy,Sci-Fi,Action,
What books are represented in 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' film?
I have watched this film several times and finally got the DVD and watched the special features. The director stated about 15 Victorian era books were represented. Most I can name, but I do not know them all. Does anyone have any ideas as to all of them?
1. King Solomon’s Mines
2. Dracula
3. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
4. The Invisible Man
5. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
6. The Mysterious Island
7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
8. Moby Dick
9. The Final Problem
10. The Phantom of the Opera
11. Serlock Holmes stories
12. The Portrait of Dorian Gray
13. Robin Hood
14. Ivanhoe
15. The Black Arrow
That is according to imdb and they list a couple of other references to portraits in the movie.
I didn’t know them all either and would never have thought to look them up if you hadn’t asked this. Great question.
pipi08_2000 | Oct 24, 2009
Allen Quartermain was the origin (inspiration) for Indiana Jones.
Very good 2 movies.
i think LXG also had Captain Nemo (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
not sure beyond that.
the movie sucked cause they made Allen a old fart.
markwillstar | Oct 24, 2009
Allan Quatermain [Sean Connery], an English big game hunter introduced in the King Solomons Mines novels of British author H. Rider Haggard.
Captain Nemo [Naseeruddin Shah], a scientific genius who roams the depths of the sea in his submarine, the Nautilus, in two of French author Jules Verne’s novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874).
Mina Harker [Peta Wilson], the wife of Jonathan Harker, a solicitor who traveled to Transylvania to sell London properties to Count Dracula and later lived to regret it in the novel Dracula (1897) by Irish author Bram Stoker.
Dorian Gray [Stuart Townsend], a character created by Irish author Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Dorian’s picture grows older but Dorian does not.
Rodney Skinner, The Invisible Man [Tony Curran], a thief who apparently stole the invisibility formula from the invisible man of English author H.G. Wells’ 1897 novel of the same name (still under copyright).
Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde [Jason Flemyng], from Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.
Special agent Tom Sawyer [Shane West] of the American Secret Service. From the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain although, in that novel, he is only a young boy
He calls himself the Fantom, but he turns out to be Professor James Moriarity, rival of Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
katie d | Oct 24, 2009
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
20,000 Legues under the Sea (Jules Verne)
The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells)
That’s all I got.
Rob | Oct 24, 2009
"King Solomon’s Mines" (1885) et al.
"Dracula" (1897)
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886)
"The Invisible Man" (1897)
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1870) & "The Mysterious Island" (1874)
"The Portrait Of Dorian Gray" (1891)
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876)
"Moby D ick" (1851)
"The Final Problem" (1893) et al.
"The Phantom Of The Opera" (1911)
"Robin Hood" (1883)
"The Black Arrow" (1888)
"Ivanhoe" (1819)
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841)
"The Three Musketeers" (1844) et al.
Some of the references in the film are only alluded to (pictures of former members, etc.) and I am sure other books are represented as well.
Ars Magica | Oct 24, 2009









