LXG - The UK Premiere

Monday night in Londons Leicester Square saw the european premiere of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The event attracted thousands of fans for the first premiere in London Sean Connery has attended in over 10 years.

Other guests on the night, included Liberty X, and a whole host of the cream of London's celebrities.

Sean Connery stars as Allan Quatermain, the world's greatest adventurer, employed by the British Government to lead a legion of superheroes the likes of which the world has never seen, in THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN.

Quatermain's extraordinary League is comprised of Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), Dracula vampiress Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), an invisible man Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran), American secret service agent Sawyer (Shane West), Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Jason Flemyng). Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge) plays the League's enigmatic recruiter, M.

The League members are staunch individualists, outcasts in fact, with checkered pasts and singular gifts that have been both blessing and curse. Now they must learn to trust each other and work as a team for the very hope of civilization. With little preparation and no time to lose, they will be transported via Captain Nemo's extraordinary submarine, the Nautilus, to the frontline of defense: Venice, Italy.

There, a masked madman known as the Fantom plans to sabotage a conference of world leaders by setting off a domino chain of explosions, sinking the entire city. The threat is catastrophic, the risks are staggering. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has 9 hours to save the world.

Released 17th October Distributor 20th Century Fox Running Time 110mins Certificate 12A