History Trivia / TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen

* AwesomeDearBoy: Richard Roxburgh signed on purely to work with Creator/SeanConnery and Stephen Norrington. As you can see in OldShame, he [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor regretted]] [[StarDerailingRole this]] ''[[{{Deconstruction}} immensely]]''.

* OldShame: Richard Roxburgh later referred to the finished film as "an unadulterated stinker", saying that he realized too late, when he arrived on set during the first day, that the film was going to be a bad experience.

* FakeBrit: The Australian Creator/RichardRoxburgh as Moriarty, the Scottish Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/TonyCurran as Alan Quartermain and Rodney Skinner and the Australian Peta Wilson as Mina Murray.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://lxg.wikia.com/wiki/League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen_Wiki The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Wiki]], which is extremely helpful in navigating the many references and untranslated text found throughout the series.

* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/TonyCurran's agent did not want him to take the role of Skinner. He reasoned that since the character is invisible for most of the movie, no one would care about who was playing him. Once this movie came out, Skinner became a fan favorite.

** The film was taken to court on a plagiarism claim made by two script writers claiming it used ideas they had presented to the studio under the name ''Cast of Characters''. Notably this seems to have been unknown to both Alan Moore and the main producers. However Dorian Gray and Tom Sawyer weren't on the team in the comics but were in the other script, making it look like someone at the studio used the idea and the writers felt they deserved a check for it. Like most cases of public domain plagiarism, it was quickly settled out of court. The movie got made however this left a very bad taste in Alan Moore's mouth feeling he had been denied a chance to defend himself.

** Creator/AlanMoore, who's already notoriously stingy about adaptations of his work, hated the film so much that he demanded his name be left off of all future ones. It should be noted that Moore was initially okay with the film until legal issues cropped up over the film's similarity to an unproduced screenplay. The fact that the studio settled the lawsuit rather than allow Moore to defend himself ultimately soured him toward any future adaptations of his works - in fact, he's only made two exceptions since: the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode that adapted ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything'', and Creator/HarryPartridge's animated parody ''[[SugarWiki/{{Watchmen}} Saturday Morning Watchmen]]''.

** Even worse, Creator/SeanConnery became so disenchanted with the moviemaking process with this film that afterwards he announced his retirement, except for some voiceover work.

* BoxOfficeBomb: In the U.S. Budget, $78 million. Box office, $66,465,204 (domestic), $179,265,204 (worldwide).

** Townsend, having already been smarting from losing the role of Aragorn in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', found his career going nowhere fast after this, with almost all of his subsequent roles being in television.

* FanNickname: Posters abbreviated the title to "LXG," causing certain derisive fans of the comic to call the movie "The League of [[XtremeKoolLetterz EXTREME]] Gentlemen."

* StillbornFranchise: A planned sequel was cancelled due to negative critical reception and poor box-office reciepts. It would have been an adaptation of the second series of the comic book, with the League battling the Martian Tripods from ''Literature/WarOfTheWorlds''. A clue to the sequel's plot can be gleaned from a poster in the background, which says "Volcanic eruptions on Mars". All the cast (barring Stuart Townsend) signed on for multiple films.
* TroubledProduction: As if the conflicts between Creator/SeanConnery and Stephen Norrington weren't enough, filming in Prague was delayed when a flood destroyed the set.

** The ending cuts to [[spoiler:Quatermain's hand coming out of the dirt and grabbing his rifle. A CallBack to what he said earlier in the film, "Africa will never let me die."]] But that wasn't used because they want to leave it ambiguous. At the least though it left the film open-ended rather then [[SequelHook set up for a sequel]] that'll never come.

* FakeBrit: The Australian Creator/RichardRoxburgh as Moriarty and the Scottish Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/TonyCurran as Alan Quartermain and Rodney Skinner.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** In one interview, Creator/AlanMoore said that he originally considered having [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Irene Adler]] lead the team, but ultimately settled on Mina Harker instead because he worried that Adler was too obscure.
*** More specifically, he apparently couldn't remember Irene Adler's name.
** At one point Simon Bisley was considered for regular art duties on the book. It boggles the mind...

* DeletedRole: A character named Eva Draper (Winter Ave Zoli), the daughter of German scientist Karl Draper, was removed during editing but remained in some of the promotional material. Eva had appeared in two scenes: one ended up on the cutting room floor, and she was digitally replaced with a different character in the other. A brief fight scene featuring Tom Sawyer and the replacement character was rotoscoped into the film. The deleted scenes which feature Draper appear on the DVD.

** Creator/AlanMoore, who's already notoriously stingy about adaptations of his work, hated the film so much that he demanded his name be left off of all future ones. It should be noted that Moore was initially okay with the film until legal issues cropped up over the film's similarity to an unproduced screenplay. The fact that the studio settled the lawsuit rather than allow Moore to defend himself ultimately soured him toward any future adaptations of his works - in fact, he's only made one exception since, which was the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode that adapted ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything''.