The final straw, however, was the lawsuit that Moore was roped into alongside 20th Century Fox over plagiarism claims of the film's screenplay (of which Moore had no part in) requiring him to give a ten-hour deposition. So the main part of Quatermain's character was thrown out the window on the whim of an actor." In an MTV.com interview, where he criticized the character changes in From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Moore said, "But Sean Connery didn't want to play him as a drug-addled individual.
Loosely based on Volume One of the series, which focuses on Victorian Era literary characters put into a Justice League-like team, the film was notoriously panned and Moore had issues with the film, particularly with changes made to the character Allan Quatermain, played by the late Sean Connery. Moore's comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which he and artist Kevin O'Neill started publishing in 1999, was adapted into a feature-length film in 2003, much to the chagrin of Moore. There didn’t seem to be any point either tormenting myself or being unfairly uncritical about a film that, obviously, isn’t going to be like the book." I’m the last person who could be fair about a film like that. I just thought it was a travesty, so I turned it off. I thought the trailer was enough but I thought I should at least try to be fair. RELATED: Alan Moore's 10 Best Comic Series, RankedĮxcerpt from a phone interview with Ian Winterton for Empire Magazine, Moore gave his two cents on the film: "I think I got ten minutes into it and realized that it had been a bad idea to watch it after all. Starring Johnny Depp and Heather Graham, the film wasn't well-received and was what led Moore down the path of disliking film adaptations of his work and distancing himself from them. Two years later, the graphic novel was adapted into the first film based on Moore's works. Considered one of Moore's greatest stories, From Hell was a graphic novel he created with artist Eddie Campbell over the course of nine years until the full collection was published in 1999.
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