In the third episode of Jason and Robert Watch Old Movies, we head back to the beginnings of the superhero era with the smash box office miss, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. An ill-fated project from inception, a grumpy Sean Connery (in his last film ever) stars in a dieselpunk superhero flick directed by Stephen Norrington (also his last film), based on an adaptation of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s graphic novel about a team of superhero fictional characters in Victorian England who are tasked with stopping The Fantom from starting a world war. We go through the film’s troubled history (4:42), the awesome production and the characters (19:14), and finish off the episode reminiscing about LXG when it was first released (44:34).

Theme music: "Downtown" by Podington Bear. [CC BY-NC 3.0]