The game resumes.

Almost 20 years after Hollywood first attempted to turn Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill into a brilliant comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in a movie, they will try one more time.

(Also: How has it been 20 years since the first League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film?!? It’s wild.)

Deadline reports that 20th Century Studios – the remnants of Fox, who made the original League movie – is working on a concept reboot specifically for the Hulu streaming service. They don’t have too many other details beyond the name of the writer working on the script: Justin Haythe.

Moore and O’Neill’s comic imagined a kind of Justice League of famous Victorian heroes – the literary version of a massive cinematic universe years before that was a thing in movies. The original lineup included Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Allan Quartermain, Dr. Jekyll, and Mina Harker of Bram Stoker’s. Dracula. The film version, directed by BladeStephen Norrington, was largely faithful to the concept, but he drastically reduced Moore’s plots and characters – as evidenced by the fact that the film was given a “cool” acronym in most of its marketing, which didn’t didn’t refer to it as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but just LXG. The big screen team included Dorian Gray and Tom Sawyer.

At least according to legend, filming was such a miserable experience for Sean Connery, playing Allan Quatermain, that it was a major factor in his decision to retire from acting. Anyway, Connery never appeared in another live-action movie after LXG before his death in October 2020.

The premise has huge potential – although if you ask me, I think it’s more suited to a prestige TV series than a movie. the LXG the film was bad, but how could it not be? Very few comic book movies are as literate, clever, complex and grown-up as the comics of Moore and O’Neill, especially with the budget you need to take advantage of the epic scale of the League’s global adventures. . A show would be better suited to the serialized nature of the comic and the fact that Moore and O’Neill have done many volumes of The league, each of which would lend itself to distinct seasons. Is not it his like a Hulu show? That hurts me.