#theleagueofextraordinarygentlemen

[raurquiz]

#remembering #seanconnery #actor #jamesbond #drno #FromRussiawithLove #goldfinger #Thunderball #YouOnlyLiveTwice #neversayneveragain #MurderontheOrientExpress #indianajones    #thelastcrusade #firstknight #highlander #inthenameoftherose #dragonheart #TheLeagueofExtraordinaryGentlemen

[jomaporpalcineclasico]

AGENTE 007 CONTRA EL DOCTOR NO supone el DEBUT de SEAN CONNERY como el personaje que le lanzó a la fama. El agente secreto creado por el genial escritor IAN FLEMING comienza aquí su andadura por la GRAN PANTALLA enamorando al público de todo el mundo, en una historia ambientada en gran parte en JAMAICA, donde un agente del MI6 destinado allí desaparece en extrañas circunstancias y todo apunta a un complot orquestado por el misterioso DOCTOR NO (JOSEPH WISEMAN). M (BERNARD LEE), el director del MI6, pone a su mejor hombre tras la pista del diabólico personaje y, de esta manera, comenzamos a descubrir en el cine los elementos característicos de los relatos de espionaje ideados por Fleming, incluyendo a las chicas BOND (URSULLA ANDRESS, ZENA MARSHALL, EUNICE GAVSON), la eterna MONEYPENNY, el martini con vodka (MEZCLADO, NO AGITADO), la Walter PPK, Q, el inconfundible tema de James Bond por Monty Norman y todo el imaginario que rodea al mejor agente secreto del mundo. Inolvidable Connery, enorme 007. #jamesbond #007 #seanconnery #ianfleming #agente007contraeldoctorno #unitedartists #classic #spy #mi6 #ursulaandress #london #jamaica #martini #m #drno #bondgirl #honey #bondjamesbond #secretservice #q #dent #therock #theleagueofextraordinarygentlemen #michaelbay #stephennorrington #gadgets #walterppk #astonmartin #omega #moneypenny https://www.instagram.com/p/CpDxKbtsJIU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[trioxina245]

RIP Kevin O'Neill (1953-2022)

[3asycome-3asygo]

So much more than just the best James Bond ever...

R.I.P. Sir Sean Connery

[betweenmirrors]

CAPTAIN NEMO'S (Naseeruddin Shah) NAUTILUS CAR (2003, #TheLeagueofExtraordinaryGentlemen) #BETWEENMIRRORS https://www.instagram.com/p/CLPuGCKJ20T/?igshid=5b4l59tqdncl

[geekynerfherder]

Swipe for #CoverArt #HappyBirthday to writer #AlanMoore, born #OnThisDay in 1953 #CoolArt #Art #Comics #ComicArt #ComicCover #ComicCoverArt #Watchmen #VforVendetta #SwampThing #FromHell #Batman #TheKillingJoke #TheLeagueOfExtraOrdinaryGentlemen #Promethea #TomStrong #Providence #LostGirls https://www.instagram.com/p/CHvnV_jgs3_/?igshid=a74wh7gq24b8

[rickcelis]

(113/365) CAPTAIN NEMO SUGGESTIONS FOR THE NEXT GENTLEMAN? #365RCart #theleagueofextraordinarygentlemen https://www.instagram.com/p/CI9DPURn_jm/?igshid=8wjgyoohsx49

[geekbroll]

Peta Wilson as Bobbie Faye - Superman Returns  Topps trading card no. 17 - 2005 Bobbie Faye is the vivacious public relations agent caught in the middle of an emergency when launching "a new era in modern air travel" turns into a living nightmare. When a strange blackout renders a new space Shuttle, which has been launched into its opening orbit from an Air Force jet, useless, it does its best to maintain order when the vehicle loses control.   Parker Posey as Kitty Kowalski - Superman Returns  Topps trading card no. 9 - 2005 Lex has it around for decoration and laughter. But Kitty Kowalsky is no fool, least of all those around Luthor. Opportunist by birth, he cooperates with his wild and lofty plans but immediately suspects their health. Kitty despises the creepy group Lex has formed for her grand criminal adventure.   I was watching The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen on Hulu and looked up Peta Wilson to see what’s she’s done since, and saw that she had a small part in Superman Returns and I found this card. She was also in the “Little Green Men” episode of the awesome Bones spin-off The Finder.  Parker Posey is always awesome.  Pretty sure if the LXG reboot wasn’t dead before the Disney acquisition of 20th Century, it was killed after. Which is too bad.     #petawilson #parkerposey #supermanreturns #dccomics #topps #toppstradingcards #BobbieFaye #LXG #LeagueofExtraordinaryGentlemen #minaharker #TheLeagueofExtraordinaryGentlemen #LaFemmeNikita #KittyKowalski #lostinspace #thefinder #bones #littelgreenmen #lexluthor #tradingcards #DC #Hulu #lxgreboot   (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-mvUPihSzp/?igshid=1e6z73fi7zajn

[tentaclemadestudios]

a little #doodle of #henryjekyll from #theleagueofextraordinarygentlemen ‪<||>‬ ‪website: tentaclemadestudios.com‬ ‪patreon: patreon.com/tentaclemadestudios‬ ko-fi: ko-fi.com/tentaclemadestudios ‪<||‬> #drjekyll #scifi #illustration #art #drawing #sketch #sketchbook #ballpointpen #tentaclemadestudios https://www.instagram.com/p/B_lACxeDesI/?igshid=1vkf5i53f4bxq

[justapicz]

New readings arrived! #comics #marvel #captainmarvel #theleagueofextraordinarygentlemen #loki #fumax #fumaxkiado #fumaxkiadó https://www.instagram.com/p/BxcvQhjBA3y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12ociwf2sgmkg

[yuskei-arts]

El 3 de noviembre pasado nos dejó #kevinoneill , un dibujante con una gran trayectoria y co-creador de obras emblemáticas como #nemesisthewarlock , #marshallaw y #theleagueofextraordinarygentlemen (esta última con #alanmoore como guionista). Por ese motivo hice esta ilustración como un homenaje a alguien que me inspiró a crecer en este ambiente 😊 y también, para que forme parte del concurso de ilustración organizado por @alecomics1 👇 [Para quienes quieran participar, tienen tiempo hasta este viernes 18. Las bases están en su perfil 👆] -.- #november14 #digitalart #fanart #comicart #illustration #challenge #artofinstagram #instadaily #digitalillustration #artistsoninstagram (en Yuskei in the Path of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck9Lvtdva-l/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[usagirotten]

Kevin O’Neill, famous for 2000AD’s #NemesisTheWarlock and co-creating #TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen with Alan Moore, has passed away. #comics #dccomics #geek #batman https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckq2iDFvSKt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fletchingandnock]

Was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Ahead of its Time?

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a 2003 film directed by Stephen Norrington, based on the graphic novel by comic book powerhouse and amateur Rasputin impersonator Alan Moore, is a film that I’ve always held quite close to my heart. As fledgling little hipster, I was enraptured by the films gothic aesthetic and ornate victorian design. However, what really made my heart race and my eyes sparkle, unblinking at the CRT screen until I could no longer process colour and shapes properly, was the premise: all these different characters, from all these different works of victorian fiction, all coming together to fight evil. The very concept of it was groundbreaking to me, and it made a young me chitter with excitement.

Despite this, and despite it making a $100,000,000 profit, the film was critically panned, Roger Ebert calling out the ‘inexplicable motivations, causes without effects, effects without causes, and general lunacy.”

As well as this, being made in the the cinematic dark age that was the early 2000s, it’s evident that a lot of the film just doesn’t hold up. The special effects are often laughable, and the acting is often off kilter, which is a shame considering how beloved the source material was.

However, looking back now, I can’t help but think that League was not an inherently bad movie, but rather a good idea executed poorly, or more to the point, executed at the wrong time.

Just five years after League was released, Marvel released their first self funded film, Iron Man, which I’m sure I don’t have to tell you was an unimaginable success, changing the entire film industry, not least because it was the start of something both creatively and financially incredible, that being the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a series of films featuring already iconic characters, set in the same world. I still remember the sensational feeling I had, and I’m sure many others had, watching Avengers in 2012, seeing these heroes finally meet and interact with each other, and it was the exact same feeling I had watching League as a child. And so I wonder, would League have been better recieved if it was made in the 2010s?

I don’t think I’ll blow anyone’s minds when I say that shared universes are hot shit right now, with many movie studios gawping green-eyed at Marvel’s unparamounted success, which has collectively made so much money that I’m looking at the number right now and I’m not quite if I can even read it. As such, so many studios and creators are scrambling to create their own shared universe, including but not limited to Universal’s Dark Universe, Sony’s Venomverse, the Cloververse, whatever the hell Ghostbusters 2016 was trying to do and of course, the DCCU, which I’m happy to report has finally made at least one good film.

So I ask you, why not a League reboot? Each character could have their own fleshed out movie based on the book they first appeared in, finally culminating in an epic united front against Moriarty or super Dracula or something. Well, if any of that tickled your fancy, well I’ve got possibly good but more accurately anxiety inducing news for you: there are rumours that Fox are planning an all-new, female-centric adaption of the graphic novel. Just rumours, mind, and of course, there are some worries that it will clash with Universal’s Dark Universe, which also features Dr Jekyll, the Invisible Man, etc. However, I really wouldn’t be worried, for two reasons: one, if  2017’s The Mummy was anything to go by, the Dark Universe will crash and burn like the Hindenburg, and two, I sincerely believe that in these times, there’s a far bigger market for a film about Tom Sawyer teaming up with a vampire to fight Kaiser Wilhem or whoever the villian will be than a film about Tom Cruise being useless for 110 minutes. Besides, we know damn well that at the very least, a Dorian Gray movie would be a success, because if Marvel and more to the point, Tumblr has taught us anything, it’s that the world loves a dark, bougie twink.

[rynthetyn]

Moving on, while I've got this Kindle Unlimited trial, I figure I should finally get around to reading "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." . . #RynReads #Book #Books #Bookstagram #Instabook #AmReading #comics #TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen #LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen https://www.instagram.com/p/CYQp4TIOF8H/?utm_medium=tumblr

[betweenmirrors]

CAPTAIN NEMO'S (Naseeruddin Shah) NAUTILUS CAR (2003, #TheLeagueofExtraordinaryGentlemen) #BetweenMirrors https://www.instagram.com/p/BwaBYJfpBBQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=x0o5tpc9x0ne

[geekynerfherder]

#HappyBirthday #AlanMoore #CoolArt #Art #OnThisDay #Comics #ComicArt #Watchmen #VForVendetta #SwampThing #Promethea #TheLeagueOfExtraOrdinaryGentlemen #TheBalladOfHaloJones #Batman #TheKillingJoke #Joker #Providence #TomStrong #LostGirls https://www.instagram.com/p/B5AWZ-8AZ0n/?igshid=57y0ykduawkt