9 Things Universal's Classic Monsters Reboot Needs To Do

5. Don't Make The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen

If you need proof that most attempts to combine characters don€™t work, look no further than 20th Century Fox€™s The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman. In the wake of this box office stiff, star Sean Connery went into retirement, director Stephen Norrington left Hollywood and author Alan Moore refused to sell any more film rights to his work. Loosely based on Moore€™s graphic novel, LXG (as it called itself in trailers) unites several characters from 19th Century literature including Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Tom Sawyer and Dorian Gray. Because it can€™t decide what to do with them, the script has them run around for 2 hours dodging explosions. Included in the group is Dr Jekyll, whose transformations into Mr Hyde are more The Incredible Hulk than Robert Louis Stevenson, which must be deliberate because Ang Lee€™s Hulk opened that same summer. Whenever onscreen, he growls while destroying the scenery with his fists, so the filmmakers missed a trick by not having him say, €œHyde smash!€