The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Remake: 13 Actors Who Should Be Cast

13. John Hurt - Allan Quatermain

The Great White Hunter and sometimes immortal isn't actually what most casual fans might expect. He's not quite the swash-buckling, whip-slinging hero of a Steven Spielberg adventure film. He's small, wiry, not particularly athletic, but powered by a stunning ability with a gun that defines him (and entraps him in later life as he's forced to hunt for a living despite hating it).

In terms of the League, he's an important element, but he's not the leader he was in the first film (an obligation no doubt rooted in the casting of Sean Connery) and the casting and writing of the character should reflect that.

Who Should Play Him?

As much as Connery and Sam Worthington (briefly cast in 2010 for the mysteriously invisible King Solomon's Mines film) suggest Quatermain is an Indiana Jones like action hero, that's not the case in the original books. He's basically a grown-up Harry Potter, wiry and unimposing, whose prowess with a gun made him the legend of hunting, rather than his general physical appearance. So casting an action hero type wouldn't be exactly right.

Instead going with someone like John Hurt: a paternal sort of figure who actually physical resembles the original description of Quatermain would be far more fitting. And you can't argue with his ability as an actor.