Wow. While the script reviews haven't been great (though, let's face it everyone wants this to be *exactly* like the comic) the trailer looks incredible - I re-read V the other night and it's just so cool to see so many of those scenes recreated on screen. Really looking forward to this now.
Link: http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/
Moore has disowned it... one complaint: Brits don't eat 'eggy in a basket' for breakfast
Rather shockingly, that does look good.
Nice to see the Wackowski's keeping up their tradition of taking the credit for someone elses work.
I'm one of those idiots who hasn't gotten around to reading V For Vendetta yet: nice trailer, and:
PRINCESS ARMADILLO GIVEN CHANCE TO ACT AFTER YEARS OF BLUE SCREEN HELL SHOCKER
"Moore has disowned it."
I don't think that's entirely fair ...
Moore (at least according to the Radio 4 interview he did with Stuart Lee a little while ago) has forsworn Hollwood and film adaptations of his work in general, after the LoEG lawsuit, rather than having a specific issue with *this* adaptation.
I can't find the cite for it, but I recall reading that the Wachowskis had produced a screenplay with which Moore had declared himself generally happy, although this is not now the shooting script.
What little I've heard about the film's storyline, to effect that it isn't cosy, easy to digest , costumed hero stuff, makes me generally hopeful that it might actually be some good.
A foolish hope, I'm sure, but there y'go ...
Cheers
Jim
looks ok
Looks no better than we could have hoped, to be honest.
If you think about it, it's a logical next project for Hollywood's favourite thieves - wooden main character spouting gibberish in dystopian future. Just like that trilogy of films they made by ripping off an independant movie - athough at least this time they've actually paid the originators of the material something for their trouble.
If I'm honest, it's going to be HARD to fuck this one up, though.
I think Moore's specific gripe with this is that the producers have been going around implying that they've spoken to him and he's given his approval, which he hasn't.
At the London Expo the other week David Lloyd was saying that he's read the script and he reckons it's really good (which doesn't necessarily mean the film will be). His advice is just to give it a chance, don't judge it til you've seen it, and don't expect it to be a carbon copy of the book, because it's not a book, it's a film.
:: Brits don't eat 'eggy in a basket' for breakfast
But they might in this "reality". If that's the biggest complaint with the script (unlikely, but you never know), it should be a good film.
another one whos yet to sample the original GN so I have no expectations, to me this looks pretty good and it seems they've kept the basic concepts the same, question...do you think they'll still blow up London landmarks with all the who har over there lately? web site has it in the plot synopsis
CU Steamboy
No, the film company made all that stuff up about Moore approving the movie, it's all total shite, and as they wouldn't retract it, it cost DC any more LOEG or anything else by moore for that matter.
Moore read some of the script and found it to be an embarresment with huge plot holes, and a startling lack of knowledge about the country its set in.
Doesn't mean it won't be entertaining, but it certainly isn't approved by the hairy one.
Yeah, just seen the trailer, looks good. Not sure I really recognise the comic book that much mind, but I liked the sense of reality that permeated it, and some top actors there.
Let's hope we all have the stomach to watch it come November 5th. I can't help but feel that terrorists would only sympathise with a few of a fscist government.
In the film Evey is no longer a prostitute at the beginning more like a political dissident who gets arrested fow being out after a curfew....ridiculous.
Yeah, that'd never happen here, eh?
Certainly not - the cops would just put five bullets in her while the media whooped and hollered from the sidelines.
Actually, I reckon that's more powerful, given the subject matter.
What's V for Vendetta actually like? Is it any good, say, on a 'Watchmen' level?
For my money it's better than Watchmen.
-pj
Well, that depends on what you think of Watchmen. If you thought it was a fantastic piece of comic storytelling, then you're likely to enjoy V for Vendetta, and may find it a more powerful story simply because it's a far more human piece than Watchmen.
If you didn't like Watchmen, you may like V, but it depends on what your problem was with Watchmen. I've met people who didn't like Watchmen because it was too structured & formal who enjoyed V because it was a very different kind of tale.
Watchman - Intellect, V - Emotion; Discuss (see also Watchman - Intellect, Dark Night Returns - Intellect; Discuss)
The Dark Knight Returns: Politics. Retribution. Anarchy (ie against the state, not against a state).
Watchmen: yeah, intellect.
The Dark Knight Returns: Politics. Retribution. Anarchy (ie against the state, not against a state).
Also a pretty good description of V.
>Night Returns - Intellect
Oops, that should have been Dark Night Returns - Intellect
I'll agree that the trailer looks pretty good.
However, I don't like the hints in it that the government is perhaps the "Christian Right"...
The govt. logo for one, and a couple of lines kicking around there...
Dan
I love V For Vendetta and the trailer couldn't be better. For me the pivotal storyline in the book is Eve's interogation and where that goes, which is the first moment in the trailer.
Rereading it recently thought there were some problems with it in that the cracks in the system are often to do with corruption and back-stabbing rather than anything V has done. Then we fing out V has (somehow) had
(SPOILERS)
...access to Fate all along, which seems a bit of a cheat really. It's hard to depict one person alone bringing down a whole system.
ADE
lalalalala can't hear you, there is no V movie, lalalalala
From the trailer, this looks as if it could go either way. V looks nice, but I'm still gutted that Hugo Weaving was cast. It's just impossible to hear his voice and not think of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert / Matrix / Bloody Elrond, which makes it neither here nor there whether he has a mask on as I know exactly what he looks like. Bah! Mumble, grumble, etc.