The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

When it comes to Fox comic book movies, you strongly associate them with Marvel characters, but the fact is they’ve also produced a movie based on a DC comic book (albeit one that drew from the works of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Ian Fleming, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Gaston Leroux and Mark Twain).

The movie saw a bunch of Victorian era literary characters coming together to form the titular team – essentially seeing them acting as superheroes.

With a cast that included Sean Connery – at a time when the former James Bond actor was already picking his films very carefully – it was expected to be rather good. Unfortunately, it wasn’t.

While it wasn’t completely terrible, it was definitely underwhelming and largely uneventful – its modest $100 million profit disguising its extremely negative critical reception.