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"Remember, remember the 5th of November............"


The official site is up and the first trailer is out for this very interesting flick. The story is from a highly acclaimed and groundbreaking graphic novel
by Alan Moore and David Lloyd and has a very good cast.

The subject matter was controversial when it was published many years ago and I am sure it will get some notice in our current times as well. I am very interested to see how true to the book it will be, but expect it to be good even if it strays a bit.


Here is a synposis from the site:

Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked vigilante known only as “V.” Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he detonates two London landmarks and takes over the government-controlled airwaves, urging his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about V’s mysterious background, she also discovers the truth about herself – and emerges as his unlikely ally in the culmination of his plot to bring freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption.


http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/
 
Have a look at how the cover to the graphic novel matches up with the movie's poster.

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interesting sound like my kind of movie
and it comes on my birthday!
meh I dont know ehich movies are gonna be out in my birthdday but this.
I hope there are good movies out by then!
 
Yeah, I saw the trailer to this... It looks like a really good movie. It has the possibility to be great.

I'm crossing my fingers on this one.
 
The subject matter and dialogue is there for a great movie. But it will be interesting what has been cut and changed and how that will effect the final movie product. As great a comic writer as Alan Moore is they have yet to make a decent movie out of one of his stories.
 
from Superherohype.com

More from Natalie on V
Source: Edward Douglas

Making her first Comic-Con International appearance ever, actress Natalie Portman had a few things to say about her next movie V For Vendetta, based on Alan Moore's serialized graphic story about a "terrorist" who fights back against a totalitarian British government in the future. Natalie plays Evey, a young woman brought into his violent world when she is saved from a brutal police force, while V is played by Hugo Weaving ("The Matrix," "The Lord of the Rings"), although you're not likely to recognize him, since he never takes the mask off, according to Joel Silver.

Ms. Portman had some interesting things to say about the film and its "protagonist":

Natalie on V's way of expression his political opinions:
"I don't know that I have an answer. I think it's made me think a lot about how we all have our thresholds for what we would allow to justify violence. I think that most people in a room would say that they would commit violence to save a child, but then if you extend that to a leader of our country who feels that all the people in his country are children, and he will commit violence on their behalf to protect them. It just changes, so you can understand that everyone has their own limit for what would cause them to be violent. The main thing I learned from it is that the way we all define and judge and categorize violence is very much from your own perspective. It has to do with whether we agree with the person's reason or not, and it just changed my opinion about violence. I think overall that it's pretty bad to cause harm to other human beings."

Natalie on the similarities to her first movie, Luc Besson's The Professional:
"Definitely the relationship between V and Evey has the complications of the relationship in that film. There's moments when it's father-daughter, there's moments when it's lovers and moments when it's mentor-student, many times all at once. That complication of the relationship is definitely similar, but this is obviously a different film with different filmmakers."

Natalie on her favorite scene in the film:
"Hugo did some great stuff, like the scene where we dance. The lighter stuff is really sort of beautiful, because you see a completely different side of V. His singing, his dancing…"

Natalie on why fantasy and science fiction appeals to mass audiences:
"I think a fantasy or a fictional world allows you to feel certain things or consider things in a way that you wouldn't when you're so tied to reality and circumstances. It allows you to abstract a little bit more, because it doesn't have consequences for our world. Once you come to those emotions or ideas in a fictional world, then you can bring it back to your own world."

Natalie on how people might respond to the movie:
"We do our best to make something that people will like, that they'll be entertained by or provoked by. You can never tell if or how people will respond. I'm really enthusiastic about it and I loved making it, and I'm interested by the story. I think it's an amazing source in the graphic novel that Alan Moore and David Lloyd created, and I feel lucky to be a part of it. I don't think you walk away from reading the graphic novel or seeing the film that we made… I mean we're not telling you to think anything, but I think we're asking you to ask more questions and to demand answers that there are no answers to. I think it's ambiguous. It's not a good hero and a bad establishment that he's fighting...or you can see it that way. It's very much shifting perspectives and complicated characters and situations. I think it's interesting and challenging for a reader or a viewer."
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V for Vendetta Moved Back to March

Source: Warner Bros. Pictures August 18, 2005

SCI FI Wire hipped us to the fact that Warner Bros.' adaptation of Alan Moore and David Lloyd's V For Vendetta has been pushed back until March 17, 2006, according to an anonymous source at the studio. This move has been confirmed to ComingSoon.net/SuperheroHype.com by the studio.

According to SCI FI Wire, the move was made not because of the subject matter and its similarities to the recent terror bombings in London, but to give them more time "to accomodate the post-production schedule."
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producer Joel Silver on the V For Vendetta Delay

Originally posted by EcranLarge.com/SuperHeroHype.com

EcranLarge.com has sent us this update from the 31st Deauville American film festival:

While attending a press conference at the 31st Deauville American film festival for the presentation of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Joel Silver was asked about the delay for the V for Vendetta adaptation:

"The V for Vendetta story was written in the late 80's and takes place in a society in an alternate world and the recent events in London does not affect this scenario. At first, we wanted to release the movie in November but the principal shooting was finished just a few weeks ago and considering all the post-production work which is to be done, especially the special effects, we decided to postpone the release until March 2006.
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Originally posted by Wing alpha+Nov 17 2005, 11:02 AM-->
QUOTE(Wing alpha @ Nov 17 2005, 11:02 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>NAtalie portman with short hair is way too creepy.
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natalie portman with shaved head is even more creepy that I expected
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I think she looks cute like that.
 
[ame="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=850157562558903368"]Here[/video] is the Super Bowl ad for the flick, which in my view is not as strong as the first trailer released on the web.

Beyond that I am really tired of the tag line they are using "An uncompromising vision of the future from the creators of the Matrix trilogy." First off, it does compromise, it has been altered from the original subject matter and changed in editing as well because the studio got scared. But beyond that, it's not their vision of the future, it's Alan Moore's.
 
A very nice feature interview with the artist of the original comic series David Lloyd over at Newsarama.com.

Originally posted by Newsarama.com

AD: Would you say your original V is a hero, an anti-hero, a villain, or what…?

DL: He’s a symbol for all of us - an everyman - so he’s like all of us, and as capable of anything as each of us can be, given the justifying circumstances that would enable us to do whatever that thing was.

AD: Is he a terrorist or a freedom-fighter? Is it possible to be both?

DL: Those are both terms used by the opposing sides in a conflict to describe the same person from differing points of view, so you can be both, but you are not necessarily both.

AD: You’ve seen the V For Vendetta movie. What’s your reaction?

DL: It’s a terrific film. The most extraordinary thing about it for me was seeing scenes that I’d worked on and crafted for maximum effect in the book translated to film with the same degree of care and effect. The “transformation†scene between Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving is just great. If you happen to be one of those people who admires the original so much that changes to it will automatically turn you off, then you may dislike the film - but if you enjoyed the original and can accept an adaptation that is different to its source material but equally as powerful, then you’ll be as impressed as I was with it.
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for more of the interview click here
 
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