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| language = English | budget = $78 million〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) - Box Office Mojo )〕 | gross = $179.3 million〔 }} ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'', also promoted as ''LXG'', is a 2003 superhero film loosely based on the first volume of the comic book series ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. It was released on July 11, 2003, in the United States, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Stephen Norrington and starred Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemyng, and Richard Roxburgh. It is an action film with prominent pastiche and crossover themes set in the late 19th century, featuring an assortment of fictional literary characters appropriate to the period, who act as Victorian Era superheroes. It draws on the works of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Ian Fleming, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Gaston Leroux, and Mark Twain, albeit all adapted for the film. The film grossed over $175 million worldwide at the box office, rental revenue of $48.6 million, and DVD sales as of 2003 at $36.4 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Numbers: Box Office Data )〕 It was intended to spawn a film franchise based on further titles in the original comic book series but there was little enthusiasm for a sequel. The film marked Sean Connery's last on-screen film appearance before his retirement. ==Plot== In 1899, men dressed as German soldiers, using a large armored vehicle and wielding machine guns, attacked the Bank of England and stole Leonardo da Vinci’s layouts of Venice’s foundations. Shortly after, led by their leader the “Fantom”, men dressed as British officers, again using highly advanced technology for the time, kidnapped German scientists and destroyed a factory, causing tension between the United Kingdom and Germany, which could lead to an international war. Sanderson Reed (Tom Goodman-Hill) of the British Empire ventures to Kenya, visiting a Gentleman's club to recruit world-renowned hunter and adventurer Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery). Quatermain, retired and mourning the loss of his son after his last adventure, has no interest in serving the British Empire further. After armed men attempt to assassinate Quatermain, he is left with no-other choice but to agree to go with Reed to London and meet with Reed's superior officer to help keep the threat of a war from spilling into Africa. In London, Quatermain meets "M" (Richard Roxburgh), Reed’s superior officer, who explains that the Fantom plans to destroy Venice to prevent a meeting between the leaders of the world, his ultimate goal being to start a war on a world-sized scale and arms race to profit from sale of his weapons. To combat the Fantom, a team of unique individuals, known as the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", is being assembled – consisting of Quatermain-himself, Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), chemist Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), and invisible thief Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran). M sends the group to recruit their fifth member, immortal Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), who remains youthful while a currently missing portrait of himself ages. Dorian once was infatuated with Mina, but refuses to join the team. The Fantom and his assassins attack, but thanks to the presence of U.S. Secret Service Agent Tom Sawyer (Shane West), the assassins are defeated although the Fantom escapes. Mina is revealed to be a Vampire/Daywalker/Dhampir (having two of the three bites necessary), a result of her past encounter with Count Dracula. Dorian and Sawyer join the team and set off in Captain Nemo's submarine, the ''Nautilus'', to recruit their final member, Mr. Hyde (Jason Flemyng), who's in exile in Paris. After capturing Hyde in Paris, Quatermain negotiates with him into joining the team in exchange for amnesty for his past crimes. Hyde agrees, immediately followed by his potion wearing off, transforming into his harmless self, Dr. Jekyll. On the way to Venice, it eventually becomes clear that there is a traitor on board when a camera’s flash powder is found in the ship’s wheelhouse and one of Dr. Jekyll's transformation formulas goes missing. Skinner is accused of being the saboteur, but he disappears. Upon the League's arrival in Venice, bombs planted beneath the city begin to destroy buildings in a domino effect. Nemo concludes they can stop the chain reaction by destroying a building out of sequence using one of the Nautilus’ missiles. Quatermain, Sawyer, Mina, and Dorian take Nemo's automobile to outrun the chain reaction with Dorian and Mina leaping out to fight the Fantom's men. Quatermain spots the Fantom and confronts him, revealing him to be M. Meanwhile, Sawyer manages to signal for the missile to be launched and what's left of Venice is saved. Dorian returns to the ship and kills Nemo's first mate Ishmael (Terry O'Neill), revealing he is the traitor. The league learns of M and Dorian’s treachery, who escape in the Nautilus' exploration pod. A phonograph record made by M is found, M explaining his true goal was to gather samples of the physical elements of the team, (Skinner's invisible skin, Jekyll's Hyde formula, Mina's vampire blood, and Nemo's technology, and even Quatermain in order to capture Hyde), to make superhuman formulas to sell to the highest paying countries, with Dorian revealing bombs are hidden on the submarine. The bombs detonate, damaging the sub, but Hyde drains the flooding water from the Nautilus’ engine rooms. Skinner, who stowed away on Dorian’s pod, messages the group to follow his lead. The Nautilus travels up the Amur River to northern Mongolia where the league reunites with Skinner. Skinner reveals that M runs a factory where weaponized versions of the Nautilus are being constructed along with M's other weapons. The kidnapped scientists are forced to make "invisible spies, an army of Hydes, vampiric assassins". In order that they do so, M has held the scientists' families as hostages. The league break into the factory and split up. Nemo and Hyde free the scientists and their families. Skinner sets bombs to destroy the factory. Quatermain and Sawyer go after M, who is revealed to be Professor James Moriarty. Mina confronts Dorian and is finally able to kill him by unveiling his portrait to him. Nemo and Hyde manage to free the scientists and their families, but are confronted by Moriarty's troops; Nemo and Hyde are able to dispatch the soldiers, but Moriarty's right-hand man, Dante, gets a hold of a large flask of Hyde formula and drinks the whole thing, transforming him into an over-muscled, rage-filled abomination that gives Hyde and Nemo trouble in beating him in a direct fight. Quatermain fights Moriarty, who points out Sawyer has been taken captive by Sanderson Reed, who has been turned invisible. Quatermain shoots Reed, but is then stabbed by Moriarty, who then escapes out of a window with the collection of formulas. Sawyer manages to use Quatermain's teachings to shoot Moriarty dead from afar, the formulas sinking into the icy waters below. Quatermain succumbs to his injuries, telling Sawyer that the new century is now his just as the old one was Quatermain's. Quatermain is buried in Kenya beside his son, but the other league members recall his story of how a witch doctor, whose village he had once saved, blessed him, saying that Africa would never allow him to die. After Sawyer, Mina, Nemo, Skinner and Dr. Jekyll depart, the witch doctor appears and performs a ritual. The grounds shakes and rumbles, dirt rolls, and the shaking becomes more and more violent. A bolt of lightning strikes Quatermain's grave, leaving the result ambiguous. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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