As one of the most infamously tortured comic book adaptations in history, which ended up ending a legendary career and bombing at the box office, it was inevitable that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen would be rebooted eventually.
Even though Alan Moore famously detests seeing his work being translated into live-action, there’s nothing he can do about Disney tackling one of his finest creations after it was announced last year the period-set adventure would be getting a fresh coat of paint following the Mouse House’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox.
To be fair, things can’t go much worse than they did the last time, with director Stephen Norrington having remained absent from the director’s chair ever since, while Sean Connery had such an awful experience he simply upped and retired from acting altogether, which is without mentioning the money it lost, the sets washed away in a freak flood, and a plagiarism lawsuit.
However, the Corridor Crew YouTube channel has made an excellent point noting that there’s one element the new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen should lift from its predecessor; the use of miniature models. While the 2003 blockbuster’s CGI was haphazard, using old school techniques did help create an impressive sense of scale and immersion, particularly when it came to the splashy Venice action sequence.
Bad green screen, sketchy pixels, and the discarding of practical sets and effects has been the bane of big budget filmmaking for a long time, but is it too much to ask that a high concept tale that’s basically the steampunk Avengers aim to be a little more tangible than the majority of its contemporaries?