“Making movies is either utopian, or it’s like shoveling shit up the hill“said James Bond star Sean Connery once at the AFI Awards. He knew what he was talking about. After the annoying filming experience of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen he ended his acting career. The film is available on Disney+.
At Disney+: Fantasy flop that almost got a James Bond star in a fight
Many lists list Sean Connery as the greatest James Bond actor ever. His cast for the theatrical adaptation of a cult comic by Alan Moore should have been a stroke of luck. But it came completely different.
Bad weather at the Prague location destroyed film props worth seven million US dollars. Connery himself had to flee his luxury hotel and could only take his beloved golf clubs, as reported by Entertainment Weekly in 2002. And that was just the beginning.
Connery and director Stephen Norrington (Blade) couldn’t stand each other. According to the report, they regularly yelled at each other on the film set and almost got into a fight on one occasion. Norrington took his time filming and allegedly canceled filming for an entire day in an infamous incident because the replica elephant gun wasn’t quite perfect. It made his star livid.
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Sean Connery in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
“[Sean Connery] not used to waiting“, a member of Crew told Entertainment Weekly. “He’s 72. And he’s Sean Connery.” Also the actor himself judged about the filming: “It is difficult. Very, very difficult.” When all the waiting finally came to an end and the film came to the cinema, the next low point was waiting for him.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen flopped at the box office (via Box Office Mojo) and was panned by many critics (via Metacritic). After this disappointment, he withdrew more and more from the film business and finally ended his career, according to the Telegraph. Years later he still declared Norrington had “arrested for mental illness” Need to become, as the Hollywood Reporter quotes from an interview.
That’s what The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is all about
The League of Gentlemen Extraordinary revolves around a group of heroes determined to put an end to the sinister Fantom (Richard Roxburgh) and his warmongering schemes. Among them are adventurer Allan Quartermain (Connery) as well as figures with supernatural powers such as Dr. Jekyll (Jason Fleming).
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