The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

In 1899, a terrorist group led by the "Fantom" robs the Bank of England for Leonardo da Vinci's blueprints of Venice's foundations, kidnaps German scientists, and destroys a Zeppelin factory in Berlin. With the British and German Empires threatening to start a world war, a British emissary named Sanderson Reed travels to Kenya Colony to recruit retired adventurer and hunter Allan Quatermain. He initially refuses until assassins attempt to kill him. After defeating them, he agrees. In London, Quatermain meets Reed's boss "M", who explains that the Fantom intends to profit from the world war and is going to attack the world's leaders at a conference in Venice in three days. To prevent this, M forms the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and recruits Quatermain, Captain Nemo, vampire chemist Mina Harker, and invisible thief Rodney Skinner.