00:00Imagine the world standing on the razor's edge of a brand new century.
00:03It is 1899, the romantic era of explorers matting the unknown,
00:08of gentlemen settling disputes with a sword, it's dying,
00:11and a cold, mechanized dawn is about to break.
00:14The nightmare begins in London.
00:16The Bank of England, a fortress of stone and iron, is breached.
00:19But the thieves aren't after gold,
00:21they're after the vaulted blueprints of Leonardo da Vinci.
00:25Leading them is a man wrapped in a terrifying iron mask,
00:28moving like a phantom.
00:29Weeks later, a German zeppelin factory is decimated by men wielding automatic weapons,
00:34guns the world hasn't even invented yet.
00:37The masked man is called the Phantom.
00:39He is framing the British for the German attacks,
00:41and the Germans for the British attacks.
00:43He wants to ignite a world war, a global meat grinder,
00:47and he intends to sell the weapons that will feed it.
00:50The leaders of Europe are scheduled to meet in Venice to negotiate peace.
00:54The Phantom plans to sink the entire city to the bottom of the Adriatic Sea.
00:59To stop a monster of this magnitude,
01:01the British government realizes that armies are useless.
01:03To fight a shadow, you need to send in the dark.
01:06Cut to the blistering heat of British East Africa.
01:09The air is thick with dust and the smell of cheap gin.
01:11Here we find Alan Quartermain, the greatest hunter the British Empire ever produced.
01:16But he's not the legend from the Penny Dreadfuls anymore.
01:20He is an old bitter man with trembling hands nursing a drink in a colonial club.
01:24He hates the empire.
01:26He gave his only son to it and the boy came back in a box.
01:29But the Phantom doesn't care about Quartermain's retirement.
01:32Assassins storm the club, tearing the wooden walls apart with machine gun fire.
01:35It's a massacre.
01:37Quartermain, forced to defend his friends, picks up his elephant gun.
01:40The old lion still has claws.
01:42He neutralizes the threat with ruthless precision.
01:44But his peace is shattered.
01:46An emissary of the crown informs him.
01:49The empire needs you one last time.
01:51Reluctantly, Quartermain travels to the foggy, gas-lit streets of London.
01:55Deep in a secret bunker, he meets M, a shadowy government bureaucrat.
01:59M gives Quartermain his mission.
02:00Assemble a team of unique, extraordinary individuals and get to Venice before the peace conference is blown to hell.
02:06The recruitment is a journey into the bazaar.
02:09Captain Nemo, the first to join is no servant of the crown.
02:13Captain Nemo is a fierce, independent pirate, a martial arts master and an engineering genius.
02:19He arrives not in a carriage but by erupting from the Thames River in his technological marvel,
02:23the submarine Nautilus, a massive sword-shaped vessel of iron and brass.
02:27Mina Harker, next is a woman introduced as a mere chemist.
02:31Mina Harker is a proper Victorian lady wrapped in a heavy scarf.
02:35But beneath the polite exterior lies a terrifying curse.
02:39She is a survivor of Count Dracula, but survival came at a cost.
02:43She is a vampire harboring a brutal thirst she can barely control.
02:47Rodney Skinner, the Invisible Man.
02:50Skinner is a charming, slazy thief who stole the original invisibility formula.
02:54He coats his face in thick grease paint just so people can look at him.
02:57He's in it for the royal pardon but his transparent nature makes him impossible to trust.
03:02The team needs a trump card.
03:04They head to the opulent, sprawling mansion of Dorian Gray.
03:08Dorian is eternally young, devastatingly handsome and completely invincible.
03:12He cannot die protected by a cursed portrait locked away in his attic that ages and rots in his place.
03:18He and Mina share a dark, toxic, romantic history.
03:21As Quatermain tries to recruit him, the Phantom's men ambush the mansion.
03:24It's a bloodbath of flying glass and lead.
03:27During the chaos, Mina unleashes her true nature.
03:30She scales the walls, her fangs tearing through the assassin's throats in a blur of terrifying speed.
03:36But they are still outnumbered.
03:38Suddenly, a young, brash American Secret Service agent named Tom Sawyer crashes the party, twin revolvers blazing.
03:44Quatermain looks at Sawyer and freezes.
03:47He sees the exact same reckless, naive courage that got his own son killed.
03:52Quatermain refuses to take the kid but Sawyer forces his way onto the team.
03:55There is one last piece.
03:57In the snowy, miserable slums of Paris, the team hunts down Dr. Henry Jekyll.
04:02He is a pathetic, trembling shell of a man, terrified of his own shadow.
04:06Because his shadow is Edward Hyde, a hulking, monstrous brood of pure rage, they corner the beast on the rooftops
04:12of Paris.
04:14Quatermain manages to sedate him, offering Jekyll a pardon if he lends his demon to the crown.
04:18The league is complete.
04:19A hunter, a pirate, a vampire, a thief, an immortal, a beast, and an American spy.
04:25The journey to Venice aboard the Nautilus is a masterclass in claustrophobic tension, the pressure of the deep sea pressing
04:31against the glass.
04:32These aren't heroes.
04:33They are volatile chemicals locked in a jar.
04:36Quatermain takes Sawyer under his wing, not out of affection but to keep the boy from getting himself killed.
04:41He teaches him to shoot not with anger but with cold, calculated patience.
04:45Mina and Dorian circle each other, a dangerous game of seduction and resentment.
04:51Jekyll sweats in his quarters, terrified that Hyde will break out and slaughter the crew.
04:55And Skinner, Skinner is wandering the ship invisible.
04:58Teranoia strikes when a vial of Jekyll's Hyde formula goes missing and the ship's camera flashes are stolen.
05:04Someone is documenting the Nautilus' engineering.
05:06Someone is a traitor.
05:07The immediate suspect is the invisible thief.
05:10When Skinner disappears entirely, the crew is convinced he has sold them out.
05:14They arrive in Venice on the night of the carnival.
05:17The city is a masquerade of fireworks and music.
05:20But beneath the canals, the Phantom has planted seismic bombs to destroy the city's foundations.
05:26When the bombs go off it's apocalyptic.
05:28Ancient cathedrals crumble like chalk.
05:30The domino effect threatens to pull the entire city into the ocean.
05:34The League scrambles.
05:35Nemo tracks the explosions, coordinating a massive missile strike to destroy the domino chain of collapsing buildings.
05:42Hyde, in all his monstrous glory, divies into the water to manually clear the wreckage.
05:47Quatermain and Sawyer pursue the Phantom through the collapsing streets in Nemo's automobile.
05:51The first car the old hunter has ever seen.
05:54They save Venice.
05:55But as the dust settles over the ruined canals, the victory turns to ash.
05:59Quatermain corners the Phantom only to discover a phonograph recording playing a mocking message.
06:04The voice belongs to M.
06:06The entire mission was a sham.
06:08M is actually Professor James Moriarty, the Napoleon of crime.
06:12He never wanted to sink Venice.
06:15He only needed a distraction.
06:17The traitor wasn't Skinner.
06:19The traitor was Dorian Gray.
06:21While the League was saving the city, Dorian was busy aboard the Nautilus.
06:24He stole Mina's vampiric blood, scraped Skinner's invisible skin flakes from his quarters, photographed Nemo's technology, and stole Jekyll's formula.
06:33Moriarty orchestrated the entire League just to harvest their supernatural abilities.
06:38He's going to mass-produce an army of invisible spies, vampiric assassins, and hulking beasts, selling them to the highest
06:45bidders in the coming World War.
06:47Dorian escapes on an exploration pod, leaving a bomb in the Nautilus.
06:50The explosion tears a hole in the hull.
06:53The ocean rushes in.
06:54The ship is sinking, the pressure threatening to crush them all.
06:57It is Hydu steps up, using his sheer, terrifying physical power to manually open the jammed drainage valves, saving the
07:04ship and the crew.
07:05It is no longer a mission for the crown.
07:07It is deeply, violently personal.
07:10Skinner, who had gone missing to clear his name, reveals he secretly planted himself aboard Dorian's escape pod.
07:16He sends a Morse code signal to the Nautilus from the frozen, desolate wasteland of the Amur region in Mongolia.
07:22The Nautilus breaks through the ice.
07:25Moriarty has built a massive, heavily fortified weapons factory carved into the mountainside.
07:29Inside, the nightmare has already begun.
07:32Scientists are reverse-engineering Nemo's tech.
07:35Men are walking around invisible.
07:37The League infiltrates the fortress.
07:39It's an all-out war in the snow and steel.
07:42Mina stalks Dorian Gray into his private quarters.
07:44It's a bitter, tragic confrontation.
07:46They cross swords, but Dorian is invincible.
07:49He runs her through with his blade, pinning her to the wall.
07:51He thinks he's one.
07:52But Mina just smiles, a terrifying, bloody grin.
07:55You can't kill a vampire.
07:57She pulls herself off the blade, finds his covered portrait and rips the tarp away.
08:02Dorian is forced to look at the wretched, rodding, maggot-infested image of his own soul.
08:07The magic reverses instantly.
08:08He screams as decades of sin and decay catch up to him in seconds, crumbling into dust on the floor.
08:14Deep in the factory, Jekyll realizes that trying to lock the monster away is useless.
08:19To save his friends, he must aim the monster at the enemy.
08:22He willingly drinks the formula.
08:25He transforms into Hyde and engages in a brutal, earth-shattering fistfight with one of Moriarty's massive, mutated soldiers.
08:32At the very top of the fortress, the final showdown happens.
08:35Quatermain and Sawyer are hunting Moriarty, navigating a maze of catwalks and invisible snipers.
08:40The father and the surrogate son move in perfect sync, but Moriarty is a genius.
08:44He creates a distraction, pulling Sawyer out of cover.
08:47Moriarty raises his gun, aiming dead at the kid's back.
08:50Time slows down.
08:52Quatermain sees it happening.
08:54He doesn't see Sawyer, he sees his own son dying in Africa all over again.
08:59He has a choice, take the shot at Moriarty or save the boy.
09:03Without a second thought, the old hunter throws himself into the air.
09:06The bullet tears through Quatermain's chest.
09:08He hits the steel floor, bleeding out.
09:10Sawyer hears the shot.
09:12He turns, fueled by grief and the final lessons the old man drilled into his head.
09:16He doesn't shoot with anger.
09:17He shoots with absolute cold patience.
09:20As Moriarty tries to flee the exploding factory, Sawyer takes a breath, aims and fires an impossible shot, dropping the
09:27mastermind in his tracks.
09:29The factory goes up in a massive fireball.
09:31The stolen formulas are destroyed.
09:33The world war is delayed, but the cost is devastating.
09:36Quatermain lies dying in Sawyer's arms.
09:39His final words to the boy,
09:40May this new century be yours, as the old one was mine.
09:44Death and rebirth, the screen fades from the frozen wasteland to the golden sunset of Africa.
09:50The league stands together under the sprawling branches of an ancient acacia tree.
09:55They are battered, bruised and forever changed by the bond they forged in the fire.
09:59They bury Alan Quatermain in the red dirt of the continent he loved.
10:03They walk away, a family of freaks and outcasts ready to face the 20th century together, but hold on that
10:08final shot.
10:09Let the audience lean in.
10:10As the sun dicks below the horizon, a local witch doctor approaches Quatermain's fresh grave.
10:15He begins a low, rhythmic chant.
10:17He pours a shimmering powder over the dirt.
10:20The sky darkens.
10:21Thunder rolls across the savannah, and slowly, deliberately, the earth on the grave begins to shake.
10:27Legends, it seems, refuse to die.
