--- title: 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Reboot in Development by Fox description: 20th Century Fox will revisit Alan Moore’s 1999 comic-book series that was infamously adapted into the 2003 dud canonical: https://time.com/3898263/league-film-fox-reboot/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-27T17:44:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:40:18.527Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Reboot in Development by Fox og:description: The 2003 film was a dud og:url: https://time.com/3898263/league-film-fox-reboot/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3bc5cf4d5f0c1120/698851d3e20a872b0da8b8b0/190561_full.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The cast of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" film. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Reboot in Development by Fox twitter:description: The 2003 film was a dud twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3bc5cf4d5f0c1120/698851d3e20a872b0da8b8b0/190561_full.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_ Reboot in Development by Fox by [Emily Blake / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Emily Blake / Entertainment Weekly May 27, 2015 5:44 PM CUT  The cast of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" film. The cast of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" film.20th Century Fox Film Corp. by [Emily Blake / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Emily Blake / Entertainment Weekly May 27, 2015 5:44 PM CUT _The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_ is getting another shot on the big screen. As initially reported by the [Tracking Board](http://www.tracking-board.com/tb-exclusive-fox-enters-development-on-a-reboot-of-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen/ "undefined"), 20th Century Fox will revisit Alan Moore’s 1999 comic-book series that was infamously adapted into the 2003 dud that starred Sean Connery as Alan Quatermain. The books combined the characters from several classic Victorian Age works of fiction into a tale of a group of, well, extraordinary literary figures—including Quatermain, Capt. Nemo, Mina Murray, Dr. Jekyll, and “The Invisible Man” Hawley Griffin. The 2003 big-budget adaptation, which stands as the retired Connery’s last on-screen role, was conceived as a potential franchise, but it was panned by both critics and audiences, grossing just $66.5 million. Fox later planned a TV series, but the pilot was never ordered to series. John Davis will produce the reboot through his Davis Entertainment banner. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/27/league-extraordinary-gentlemen-reboot "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined")_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3898263/league-film-fox-reboot/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3898263/league-film-fox-reboot/"},"headline":"League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Reboot in Development by Fox","datePublished":"2015-05-27T17:44:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:40:18.527Z","description":"The 2003 film was a dud","url":"https://time.com/3898263/league-film-fox-reboot/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3bc5cf4d5f0c1120/698851d3e20a872b0da8b8b0/190561_full.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Emily Blake / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3bc5cf4d5f0c1120/698851d3e20a872b0da8b8b0/190561_full.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The cast of \"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen\" film.","caption":"The cast of \"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen\" film.","creditText":"20th Century Fox Film Corp.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3898263/league-film-fox-reboot/","name":"League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Reboot in Development by Fox"}}]}] ```