Following up on their plans to reboot Marvel's Daredevil and Fantastic Four, 20th Century Fox has plans to attempt to correct one of their past mistakes by revisiting Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The original Alan Moore mini-series was an extremely British story, filled with hundreds of obscure references only true literary Anglophiles would recognize. Appropriately, Fox has recruited acclaimed British filmmaker and screenwriter Mike Leigh (Topsy Turvy, Happy-Go-Lucky) to make his Hollywood studio debut on the strength of his commitment to keeping all of his movies distinctly Brit. Staying loyal to the original book, there will be no Tom Sawyer this time around, with the story focusing on Moore's original five characters. Rumored casting possibilities include Brian Cox or Sir Ian McKellen as Allan Quatermain, Naveen Andrews (Lost) or Anil Kapoor (Slumdog Millionaire) as Captain Nemo, Colin Firth as Dr. Jekyll, the voice of Alan Rickman as The Invisible Man and Rachel Weisz as Mina Murray who (like the comic) will distinctly not be portrayed as being an obvious vampire.
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I like Mike Leigh...This means Tim Spall as Campion Bond? LOL... And he showed in "topsy-Turvy" that he could deal with Victorian settings.
And yet, the previous League film was sugh a huge disappointment for me that i'd rather leave the comic as a comic... Connery as "Quatermain the leader" was a sore point
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