Remember, Remember, The Fifth Of November

Wow. This is a nice poster. Hopefully they can pull this one off :




The other poster has this closeup of the Guy Fawkes mask :



Pretty much every Alan Moore movie adaptation has been been a disaster, so I probably shouldn’t get my hopes up. Especially considering that those Matrix hacks are working on it. But I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed….


posted by greg on June 28, 2005 @ 11:29 am

6 comments

  1. I’ve read a lot of comics and a lot of Moore, but I’ve never read Vendetta. I saw a piece about this movie last week on vacation in the paper (prominantly showcasing the shaved head of Natalie Portman…) and it made me long for the trade paperback to read.

    Comment by Mr Furious — June 29, 2005 @ 7:08 am

  2. I loved V for Vendetta, but Moore has already pulled away from the film. After what they did to the brilliant League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell, I don’t know that I can stand to see this movie.

    Which is to say, of course I’ll see this movie. Just like I’ll go to Fantastic 4, because I’m a moron.

    Comment by Dr. Pants — June 29, 2005 @ 10:32 am

  3. Daredevil pretty much cured me of my need to see every comic book movie that comes down the pike. The one thing I’m really looking forward to in V for Vendetta is the “Vicious Cabaret” portion of the book which never really worked for me.

    BTW, for those who haven’t read V for Vendetta, there’s a great article on the book here.

    Comment by greg — June 29, 2005 @ 11:05 am

  4. V introduces himself to Evey:

    “This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vangquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.

    “The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.”

    I may actively avoid it.

    More here:
    http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20348

    Comment by haydn60 — June 29, 2005 @ 11:55 am

  5. The above was written by the Wachowskis, not Alan Moore. Ecchh.

    Comment by haydn60 — June 29, 2005 @ 11:58 am

  6. From the script review quoted above :

    There is nothing sinister about the government. It isn’t subtle and manipulative at all like the graphic novel presented it to be. It is Evil with a capital E, black bags over the head and everything. Pothrero is not the Voice of England, but a screaming voice, devoid of nuance and subtlety, a damning indication of elementary screenwriting by two hacks. He’s fucking Fred Phelps, veins bulging and eyes wide. As he is written now, he’s a caricature. Not a character. Not the Lewis Pothrero of the book, which is the correct Pothrero, not because it was Moore who wrote him, but because the character of that book was an accurate and critical visualization of a form of propaganda. He is someone people would watch for guidance and support, he would be their voice. The character of the script is a fucking annoyance, someone you’d turn off in a split second only to put an end to his ceaseless bleating. And I don’t buy for a second that the moment your society enters into totalitarianism, you settle for bleating. Hitler did not bleat, Mussolini did not bleat, W did not bleat, and the Voice of England should not bleat. But bleat he does.

    Not that I’m surprised. This is made by the pretentious simpletons who did the Matrix films.

    Comment by greg — June 29, 2005 @ 12:06 pm

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