V For Vendetta.... Hopes? FEARS????

My wife just told me that They are doing V For Vendetta. While I think the time is ripe for this to be made into a movie, The fact that Joel Silver is involved makes me filled with dread. And Natalie Portman is cast as Evey.

Why couldn;t they get Gilliam or Jackson???

If they Americanise this, it will a pointless waste of time and money.

Oh crap.... Joel Silver quote, this does not sound good...

“It’s the boys. It’s their conception – the Wachowski Brothers. And they’ve got an incredible kind of idea for the movie. They’ve written the script, which is remarkable. And James McTeigue, who is their A.D., is the director of the movie. But they’re there and they’re kind of supervising everything."

"They’ve taken the idea of the comic but they’re wonderful writers and they’ve written it in a way that captures the concept but is a brilliantly conceived story.”

I think there should be a ban on any Alan Moore comics being made into films, its such a disapointment to watch some of the greatest comics turned to pure SHIT.
At least the outcry over the early movie logo which was a circle with V and a little E has got warners to change it to the original

gossip on V here..

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/news/v-for-vendetta.asp

V for vendetta website..

http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/

More scary on the "how-bad-a-film-can-they-make-from-an-alan-moore-classic" front..

http://www.watchmenmovie.com/

The Trailer is out for V, high gloss balls but glimpses of a fine film...

http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/trailer.html

Just watched the trailer, and WOW~~~~!! Once upon a time I had the orginal issues as they came in the comic store, I think that it looks to be a decent adaption. Do you think that sometimes it is just nice that they do a adaption of a book you love, or if they are going to do it, do it right. ????

I have high hopes, but I'm still nervous. Moore has already distanced himself from the film, which made my heart sink. The trailer looks great, but not the grittiness that I was hoping for based on the look of the comic. At least the mask is relatively unchanged.

Expect lots of bullet time!

Well, the trailer looks pretty impressive.

The times couldn't be more right for this work to be adapted. It'll probably get all sortsa rhubarb from
a certain sector of the populace.

I wonder if we'll start seeing spray painted V symbols added to the terror alert list?

Apparently the ending hasn't been changed despite the recent London Tube bombings and V's face won't be seen, good David Lloyd interview on V for Vendetta here..

http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/1954/2/

..on a side note the ITV were thinking of recreating the destruction that Guy Fawkes was trying to cause..

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5041417.html

When you know Alan Moore's great comics are turned into bad films can you actually be disappointed, looks like the knives are out for V for Vendetta..

D for Vendetta (wireds review)
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,70424-0.html?tw=wn_index_2

Revenge turns out to be a dish served lukewarm in V For Vendetta.(BBC review)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/v_for_vendetta/

If it had been called V for Vasectomy I could scarcely have found it a less enjoyable experience,(Jonathan Ross Film 2006)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2006/03/14/film_2006_v_2006_article.shtml

The vast majority of reviews are good. Rotten Tomatoes has given it a fresh rating, and what they do is average the reviews.

I saw it and really liked it, and was a fan of the book.

Is it as good as the book, no. But then when is any movie?

--SBiM

i want to see it, but i just heard today that alan moore has insisted on having his name taken off not only this film, but any future US printings of "watchmen" and a few others. word is that he's disgusted with both the american film AND graphic novel industries. 'least that's what i heard.

Its only movie adaptations that he's asked his name to be removed from, there was a great interview with him on the BBC last week, apparently he's disgusted with Hollywood versions of his work, for example in "From Hell" having his dour policeman replaced with a opium smoking dandy and "The league of extraordinary gentlemen" story being changed so much that it became a film with a similar name to his comic.

Alan Moore is a odd chap he has two wives, practices chaos magick and lives in Wolverhampton, which incidentally provides the background to all his comics. Not to mention about 15 years ago he claimed, that he was never going to write comics again because he'd met a shaman, that showed him he was god, so he was only going to perform spoken word performance art, thank goodness that period of his life passed.
Oh and if you ever see a picture or footage of him its usually in close-up so that his hair and beard fill the screen and his uncle is Patrick Moore, the pop-eyed pug-ugly "sky at night" boffin.

i just saw this movie today....and i'm totally buying it on DVD when it comes out. It was so friggin...awesome...AWWWWEEESOME!

I went to see it tonight just because I kept reading about it in all the Internet forums. I thought it was reasonably good, in the same way that the Batman movies, Spiderman movies, and The Matrix movies were good: huge productions, huge explosions, master karate & master swordmaster tactics, convincing effects, etc., but I don't see why everybody is that excited over it. The plot is basically the same ol' corrupt government plot that we've seen many times before, as in "Enemy of the State," "Clear and Present Danger," etc. But I'm not familiar with the book/comic, so maybe I'm missing something.

On 2006-03-17 17:04, atomictonytiki wrote:
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Alan Moore is a odd chap...

wow, i had no idea. sounds like an even odder version of jimmy page. i had heard that there was supposedly some film version of watchmen in the works - i wonder if he will put a halt to it or just pull his name.

Paramount had the rights to Watchmen and then dropped it, now Warner Bros. is working on it, but unless someone dose a "Sin City" co-director deal with Alan Mooore (although which director is crazy enough to want to co-direct with the great beardy wierdy) I doubt we'll see his name on any adaptations.

But Imagine Watchmen as a two hour movie, I shudder at the thought , a big HBO/BBC 12 part series (like Rome) then its possible.

If HBO or Showtime produced the Watchmen as a series and was faithful to it, I would have to finally sign up for one of those services.

Finally someone creates a perfect version of an Alan Moore book..

C for Cookie

..well perhaps not.

[ Edited by: Chip and Andy 2009-06-05 17:40 ]