V For Vendetta: The Movie

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trailer out in HD at www.apple.com/trailers

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Monday, 17 October 2005 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

apparently this has been delayed till march?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 31 October 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

remember remember the... 14th of march? doesn't have the same ring to it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 31 October 2005 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Beware the Ides & shit

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 31 October 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

This is usually reliable sign that a movie is going to blow goats.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 31 October 2005 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Perhaps they are delaying it because it's too soon after the July bombings in London? (Key plot point involves trains from Kings Cross) That may be me thinking too humanely of the film industry though.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I thought this was the official reason for the delay.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 09:38 (eighteen years ago) link

no, it isn't. and anyway it's victoria in the book.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

That was the reason I heard too, and it seemed to make some sense.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

It does make some sense. But the only other example that comes to mind of delaying a movie because of coincidental real world resemblance to the plot (actually just the title, which was ultimately changed in this case) was "Looters" which later became "Tresspass"

And it DID blow goats.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Trespass had some good stuff in it! And frankly its a better, more accurate title.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

More trailer on the site now...

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 10 February 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I guess there's a still small fanboy living in me because that trailer left me all excited, wanting to see the film. Then again, the anarchist in me will probably be disappointed, because I that's the aspect of the story they'll most likely fuck up. All they have to do is make V a real person rather than a symbol.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

the vanity fair article on this last month made it sound excellent

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

That trailer looked GOOD.

Will Natalie Portman return to her adolescent brilliance? I mean, same basic setup as Leon the Professional. I don't have audio @ work so can't tell if she's being totally boring again or what else is going on.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 10 February 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Her accent sounds too posh, that's for sure. I think she drops a 't' in one trailer as a minor concession to working classness.

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

EXCITED!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 February 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

DEEPLY SKEPTICAL!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 February 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

RESERVING JUDGEMENT!

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!

― gear (gear), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

FLYING DAGGERS N SHIT!

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

MOVIE

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link

WHEN

― gear (gear), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

SELF-SERIOUS CRAPOLA!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Story by Alan Moore, directed by the Wachowski Bros -- of COURSE it's going to be self-serious. But I'm still looking forward to seeing it.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll see it, but I'm not getting my hopes up. a 4 month delay for reshoots & whatnot is never a good sign.

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Harry Knowles likes it it - rather he FUCKING LOVES IT WHAT A FUCKING AWESOME MOVIE. Not a promising sign.

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link

HARRY HERE FOLKS! CHRONICILES OF RIDDICK IS THE BEST FILM I'VE SEEN SINCE LEVIATHAN

― gear (gear), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not directed by thew wachowskis?

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Moore has totally disavowed this movie and has tried to get his name off of it. Also donating all his personal profits from the film to the artist of the comic book. Just, y'know, for the record...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

eccentric writer in authorial intent fussiness shockah

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

the reviews that RT has posted so far

includes this (inadvertantly?) amusing one

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Two points of some relief for me: according to the trailer, he actually blows up Parliament. According to Kurt Loder, we never see his face.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Sometimes I think that if Shakey Mo and I ever meet and shake hands, the resulting collision of matter and anti-matter will annihilate the universe.

― Dan (Dibs On Anti-Matter) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

WHEN IS THIS MOVIE COMING OUT

― gear (gear), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Early March, ain't it?

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link

17 March 2006

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Right after Larry finishes his sex change. He wants to look good for the premiere.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.gothamist.com/images/2003_11_larrywachow.jpg

Larry Wachowski in 2003 (in the middle)

― gear (gear), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Moore has totally disavowed this movie and has tried to get his name off of it. Also donating all his personal profits from the film to the artist of the comic book. Just, y'know, for the record...

For the record, he's been doing this wrt film projects for 10 years.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Admittedly though those film projects have pretty much sucked.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Though I haven't seen it, I understand that From Hell is an alright movie. Just a lousy From Hell adaptation. LXG is perhaps the worst film I've ever seen.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

From Hell is not an alright movie.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Esp. when consider it's relation to the source material.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know the source material, I just know it was a rotten film.

There was an interesting feature on V for Vendetta in Vanity Fair last month.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Excerpts here

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Moore's work towers over the crappy movie adaptations, and I have every reason to believe this will continue to be the case for a long time to come.

From Hell is an okay film. LXG is unwatchable.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 February 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link

For the record, he's been doing this wrt film projects for 10 years

For the record, this is the first film project he's done this with.

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 11 February 2006 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link

It absolutely isn't. There's a bit in that interview with Stewart Lee where he mentions that after LXG he decided to give his monies for these things to the artists and get his name taken off, and within 3 days people attempted to give him cash/sign him up for Constantine & Watchmen & V.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 11 February 2006 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link

LXG != ten years ago. And it wasn't after the film, it was after the deposition he had to give when two screenwriters accused Fox (?) of ripping off their Cast Of Characters screenplay, and said that the comic had been done in order to cover the studio's tracks. So it's been less than two years, and V was the first project to start up since then - he diverted money on Constantine, but V escalated things with the press conference where Joel Silver stated that Moore was very excited about the screenplay and they were looking forward to getting him to contribute. When Warners refused to issue a retraction he spat the bigger dummy, walked from Wildstorm, etc. His name was actually on early V publicity/posters, but has disappeared since (to be replaced by a multi-factually-incorrect credit!).

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link

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