FAQ for
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

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No. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series written by British writer Alan Moore, illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, and launched in 1999 as part of the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm Comics. British screenwriter James Dale Robinson adapted the comics for the screen.

No he's not, though he references stealing the formula from a scientist. The reason for the change is because another company owned the rights to that character.

It has been rumoured for nearly five years and nothing has happened. It is most likely that there will no sequel to the film.

Yes. Connery retired from film-making after The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, however he continues to do voice acting, playing the title character in the animated short Sir Billi the Vet (2006), due for release in 2008.

They are all characters from fictional novels and include:

Allan Quatermain [Sean Connery], an English big game hunter introduced in the King Solomons Mines novels of British author H. Rider Haggard.

Captain Nemo [Naseeruddin Shah], a scientific genius who roams the depths of the sea in his submarine, the Nautilus, in two of French author Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874).

Mina Harker [Peta Wilson], the wife of Jonathan Harker, a solicitor who traveled to Transylvania to sell London properties to Count Dracula and later lived to regret it in the novel Dracula (1897) by Irish author Bram Stoker.

Dorian Gray [Stuart Townsend], a character created by Irish author Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Dorian's picture grows older but Dorian does not.

Rodney Skinner, The Invisible Man [Tony Curran], a thief who apparently stole the invisibility formula from the invisible man of English author H.G. Wells' 1897 novel of the same name (still under copyright).

Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde [Jason Flemyng], from Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

Special agent Tom Sawyer [Shane West] of the American Secret Service.

He calls himself the Fantom, but he turns out to be Professor James Moriarity, rival of Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

No. Dorian Gray is killed by Mina Harker. Quatermain is stabbed in the back by Professor Moritarity. However, the movie ends with a witch doctor casting a spell over Quatermain's grave.