Editing Newsletter/Winter 2009 (section)

== That's a Wrap! ==

'''League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'''[[Image:LOEG cast.jpg|260px|right|thumb|The League, From left to right: Jekyll, Gray, Nemo, Quartermain, Harker, Skinner, Sawyer]]

Directed by Stephen Norrington 

Writers (WGA): Alan Moore (comic books) and Kevin O'Neill (comic books) 

Released July 2003 [[Image:League of extraordinary gentlemen.jpg|180px|left]]


Starring Sean Connery as Alan Quartermain, Naseeruddin Shah as Captain Nemo, Peta Wilson as Mina Harker, Tony Curran as Rodney Skinner, Stuart Townsend as Dorian Gray, Shane West as Tom Sawyer, Jason Flemyng as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, and Richard Roxburgh as M, this action packed movie smacks of science fiction at the turn of the century before the first World War. 

Her Majesty and the British government request the legendary African hunter Allen Quartermain to participate with others of extraordinary talents to stop the coming chaos caused by a masked madman calling himself the Phantom. Fighting their own personal demons and, often each other, this group of unlikely and reluctant heroes saves the day against dangerous odds. 
[[Image:Nautilus Prow.jpg|200px|right|thumb|The ornate prow of the Nautilus, Nemo's ship]]
The movie ends up being a rollercoaster ride of special effects, high drama with unexpected heroes and villains along with a lovely plethora of late 1800’s details. The Nemomobile and the Nautilus alone are so gorgeous in decorative touches that they are almost characters in and of themselves. 

If one can overlook the obvious gaffs of a naked invisible man in northern Siberia not freezing to death outside, that former evil villains can suddenly decide to do an about face personality change to become do gooders, or that Tom Sawyer could know how to drag race an automobile before the advent of the Model T, the movie is fun and dramatic, the special effects well done and believable, and the acting credible.