The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a drag of a movie, especially as it was the live-action swan song for Sean Connery. Just because that film was a stinker, however, doesn’t mean that the Alan Moore-written comic series, featuring Victorian-era pulp and sci-fi characters such as Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll, and Mr. Hyde, isn’t any good as raw material for film and TV.

Well, now Fox has shifted priorities from making a TV series based on the comics to creating a The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reboot movie.

Variety reports that John Davis and Davis Entertainment are producing, with Ira Napoliello and Matt Reilly overseeing the remake at Fox. This new film is once again based on Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s comics, but we don’t know how faithful this one will be. I hesitate to say they couldn’t be much less faithful than the 2003 film, but that might be misinterpreted as a dare.

No writer has been revealed, so this could still be in pretty early stages.

This presumably picks up where the 2013 effort to develop a TV series left off. That was initially given a put pilot commitment, with Michael Green (Green Lantern) as showrunner and exec producer, but the show never went anywhere.

If you’re not familiar with Moore and O’Neill’s original comics, here’s a brief Amazon review: