FOX is rebooting The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

If done well this could be huge for FOX.  With every major studio looking to have some sort of shared universe or major franchise, FOX can use all the help they can to try to catch up with Marvel Studios. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is sort of a fictional-historic-characters Avengers style team.

I honestly can’t remember too much about the 2003 movie so maybe that means it was so bad I’ve purged it from memory, or it was so bland it didn’t stick.  Either way this reboot has my curiosity and with some good casting it’ll have my attention.

20th Century Fox is rebooting its 2003 historical fantasy film “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” with John Davis on board to produce through his Davis Entertainment banner.

Jayson Rothwell has been hired to write “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.” Ira Napoliello and Matt Reilly are overseeing the remake, based on Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s graphic novel of the same name, centering on Victorian-era literary characters such as Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde teaming to fight a common enemy.

A TV series was in development in 2013 with “Green Lantern” writer Michael Green on board as showrunner and exec producer alongside Erwin Stoff. Fox made a put pilot commitment but the show was not ordered to series.

The feature film starred Sean Connery as Allan Quatermain; it was the thesp’s final live-action movie before he retired. The studio had planned for “League” to become a franchise but the worldwide gross reached only $180 million.

“The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” comic book series launched in 1999.

Source: Variety