When the director didn't show up to the movie's premiere, journalists ask the movie's star where they might be. Their response: 'Check the local asylum.'
It takes a special kind of bad to make some of Hollywood's biggest names essentially quit the business.- or LXG as the advertising team was hoping the cool kids would call it - had all the makings of a massive hit.Coming from director Stephen Norrington, who was super hot in Hollywood off the back of his hit comic book adaptation Blade, it was based on a much-loved graphic novel by Alan Moore, the guy who had created Watchmen, V For Vendetta and Batman: The Killing Joke.
But then the movie arrived in cinemas, and performed just well enough at the box office to not be a complete financial dud: $179 million worldwide on a $73 million production budget. However, critics absolutely savaged it, landing with just 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, and even worse, those who made the movie seemed to hate it even more.
To the point that Stephen Norrington never directed anything again, and it was Sean Connery's final on-screen performance...
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