The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Who's who in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

1.Allan Quatermain
H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines, 1885

2.Mina Harker
Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

3.Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer, 1876
I think Agent Sawyer resembles Billy the Kid(William H. Bonney, 1859-1881) in this movie.

4.Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
The movie implies that Dorian Gray is the Jack the Ripper.

5.Rodney Skinner
H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man, 1897
Actually, the invisible man is Griffin, but he dies in the novel.

6.Nemo
Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1870

7.Ishmael
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, 1851
Nemo’s first mate

8.Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886

The place where Mr.Hyde was ensnared is Rue Morgue.
Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Mogue, ??

9.Phantom
Gaston Leroux, Phantom of the Opera, 1911

10.Professor Moriarty
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 1893
Reichenbach falls