4. Studio Sues Alan Moore Over The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen And Casts An Actor He Hates
Alan Moore is a renowned grump who absolutely loathes what Hollywood has done to his comics. It's been this way forever he's famously apathetic about the movie industry in general, and the balls-up that was From Hell didn't help matters. Yet 20th Century Fox's next Moore adaptation The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a balls-up of epic scope, a colossal misfire on all levels that runed the material, killed a potential frnachise and inadvertently forcing the magnificent Sean Connery into early retirement. The whole thing started an ugly court battle between writer and studio after a fellow scribe claimed the on-screen add-ins to Moore's comic were taken from their own unpublished script. Despite this not being Moore's fault, the studio hung him out to dry, labelling him a plagiarist and forcing him to give a ten hour deposition in which he said he was treated like he'd
"raped and murdered a schoolbus full of retarded children after selling them heroin." That's a pretty big f**k you, really. But the weirdest f**k you in all of this? Moore hates James Bond, and that's pretty public knowledge. He's labelled him a misogynist and has gone as far as directly spoofing him in the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen's pages, with the unsubtly named and Sean Connery-modelled Jimmy Bond. Proving they couldn't have missed the point any harder , when it came time to cast Allan Quartermain they brought in the very embodiment of Moore's derision Sean Connery. I seriously can't think of any more ways they could flip Moore the bird, aside from taking a dump on his lawn. Frankly, I wouldn't put anything past them after this, although I wish they'd stop I've had enough of Alan Moore's awful analogies for one lifetime.