The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Are you local?
The residents of the fictional Royston Vasey are facing a flaming Judgment Day because their creators have grown tired of writing the nightmarish TV series, The League of Gentlemen. In order to save their world, the locals must confront their creators that most unlocal of places – the real world.
Dark comic fun in a multi-level-mix of reality and fiction, more than Adaptation could provide. “The team’s brilliance at disguise and director Bendelack’s legerdemain come into their own when the TV characters meet their creators – leading to some clever meta-comedy when Lipp is forced to impersonate Steve Pemberton himself. The film takes an extravagant detour when Geoff finds himself drawn into the script for a projected ‘League Of Gentlemen’ film, an 18th-century horror drama in which three Catholic plotters try to assassinate King William III (Bernard Hill), with help from necromancer Dr Erasmus Pea (David Warner). This section features the film’s most extravagant special effects not to mention a host of spoofy nods at Kubrick, Cocteau, Greenaway et al. The film’s trump card remains the shape-shifting virtuosity of the League trio, whose own extraordinary cartoon physiognomies can look Hogarthian even without special-effects make-up.
The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse has already been released in the UK. Hopefully, a more international release won’t be too far in the future.
The Trailer
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