Looks like Alan Moore is going to get more upset.
It has been confirmed that 20th Century Fox will be rebooting Alan Moore's comic series, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", after trying previously back in 2003.
In 1999, Alan Moore wrote the series, which was basically, for a lack of a better description, an "Avengers" or "Justice League" style team consisting of iconic characters in literature, such as Mina Harker, Captain Nemo, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man and more. It was definitely a great concept and Alan Moore's writing was always sharp and inventive, making it a fan favorite for comic-book readers, including myself. In 2003, 20th Century Fox released the film adaptation of Moore's comic book, which was critically panned by both critics and audiences, with Roger Ebert calling it a film that "plunges into inexplicable motivations, causes without effects, effects without causes, and general lunacy" and giving the film 1 out of 4 stars. It was after this film, and "From Hell" starring Johnny Depp, that Moore began to distance himself from any film adaptations of his work.
In the early 2000s, comic-book films were definitely not given the respect and dignity filmmakers and studios are giving them today so perhaps a reboot of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" could be done well... Maybe. Let's not make the same mistake of making the main character NOT Mina Harker like they did previously. We have proven that a female led film could do equally as good at the box office, as long as it has good content. So since they are rebooting it, bring it on! Do the best you could possibly do, Fox! You crushed the "X-Men" franchise but brought it back up with "X-Men: First Class" and "X-Men: Days of Future Past" so there is still hope.
What do you guys think?
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