Special Issue #47 • ships from Jul 31 2003
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Get the inside track on an Extraordinary Gentleman!
• From Dr No to the forthcoming smash summer hit The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Sean Connery had proved himself to be an enduring screen presence; a man who, for some, epitomizes masculine sex appeal and charisma. Join us, as we present an in-depth guide to a screen legend’s career!

Including:

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• Connery and his co-stars give us the low-down on this fantastic tale of heroes uniting to save the world from disaster in Victorian London.

Call Sheet:
You Only Live Twice
• Director Lewis Gilbert recalls the making of Connery’s 'last' Bond. Every aspect of the production is thoroughly investigated.

Connery’s Career
• A fantastic pictorial history of the icon’s work on screen, from his first major appearance in Darby O’Gill and the Little People – where he sings a mawkish Oirish ballard – on through each decade of his career. We chart the high and lows of Sean’s CV, including Marnie, A Bridge Too Far, Time Bandits, The Name of the Rose, The Untouchables and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade . And those are just some of the highs! Not that we’re drawing a discreet veil over Zardoz , or anything…

The League of Cinematic Gentlemen!
• We take an exhaustive look at the previous screen incarnations of the characters in Connery’s latest, charting the screen history of various versions of Dracula, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , Sherlock Holmes, King Solomon’s Mines and Jekyll & Hyde .

Plus our usual round-up of the very best DVDs for our chosen genre, with 10 pages of Sean on disc.
All his Bond films are detailed, with extensive coverage of the impressive extras, as well as almost every other film he’s been that available on the shiny discs worthy of Q-Branch itself. No fan of the format can afford to be without it!

• A lengthy interview with star Elijah Wood, who reveals his thoughts on the film, his fellow cast members, and the difficulties of being a former child star – as well as what kind of impact he thinks the trilogy will have on the rest of his life!
  
  
• Sometime Dwarf John Rhys-Davies, on the foolishness of covering himself up in prosthetics, and the on-set accident that almost cost him his life!
  
  
• Howard Shore discusses the challenges of setting such an epic and seminal work to music – and working on a score that’s already won an Oscar!
  
  
• Producer Barrie Osborne and special effects supremo Richard Taylor describe the painstaking work that goes into creating an entire world from scratch, whether it’s in the virtual domain on the computer, or – all too often – building it for real!
  
  
• Actor Andy Serkis, the human face of the computer-generated Gollum, discusses the unique challenges of acting through the medium of computerized motion-capture, and why Gollum is a world away from other such CGI characters (yes, we mean you, Jar-Jar!).
  
  

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: 20th Century Fox, MGM/UA, New Line Cinema

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2003. Not for reproduction

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