V for Vendetta

[crippled_avenger]

Hugo Weaving is joining the cast of "V for Vendetta," playing the title character V opposite Natalie Portman, Stephen Rea, Rupert Graves and Stephen Fry reports Reuters.

Weaving replaced British hunk James Purefoy, who originally was cast in the role but has left the production. James McTeigue is directing, Joel Silver & the Wachowski siblings are producing the futuristic thriller, which is under way in Berlin but will soon move to London.

Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, "V for Vendetta" tells the story of a mild-mannered woman named Evey (Portman) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked vigilante known only as V, who ignites a revolution.

[crippled_avenger]

Ovih dana intenzivno proucavam desnu propagandu iz taceristicke Britanije koja je nadahnula Mooroeov virulentno levicarsko oblikovanje univerzuma u WATCHMENu i V FOR VENDETTA. I u seriji poput CI-5 nazirem sta ga je uznemiravalo...

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V for Vendetta je najprecenjeniji Murov strip i BEZOBRAZNA kradja Orvelovog romana 1984 , samo sa Batmanolikim junakom u centru price i njegovom sticenicom...

[Izitpajn]

V for Vendetta je najprecenjeniji Murov strip i BEZOBRAZNA kradja Orvelovog romana 1984 , samo sa Batmanolikim junakom u centru price i njegovom sticenicom...

Neusporedivo manja krađa od Orwellovog drpanja Zamjatina, ako ćemo o tome. Ali ne misliš valjda ozbiljno da je svako opisivanje totalitarne Britanije kopiranje Orwella?

[MAGIC]

meni je Vendeta jako dobar strip...moze se reci da su neke ideje vec vidjenje ali ipak je to pretstavljeno na drugi i specifican nacin...

jes da vendeta nije swamp thing, al da je losa nije, pa cak i ako nije sasvim originalna...a opet sta jeste?

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Meni su Watchmen bili ono pravo, i Swamp Thing takodje

[crippled_avenger]

Verovali li ili ne Tony Blair je u obracanju naciji posle danasnjeg napada rekao `We will prevail!`

[DušMan]

Haha!
Mozda su i ovi bombaski napadi samo reklama za film.  

[crippled_avenger]

V Pushed Back To 2006

V for Vendetta, originally slated to open on Nov. 4, has been pushed back to next March, a Warner Brothers spokesperson told SCI FI Wire. In a statement, Warner said: "We have moved the release date of V For Vendetta to March 17, 2006, to accommodate the movie's post-production schedule."

The spokesperson, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, denied that the delay had anything to do with the movie's subject matter or the current political climate. V for Vendetta has come under scrutiny for the coincidence of its subject matter and the recent terrorist bombings in London.

V for Vendetta, based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, is set in an alternate universe in which the United Kingdom has a fascistic government, and the film centers on a self-styled anarchist terrorist who bombs London, assassinates government officials and models himself on notorious British traitor Guy Fawkes, who is burned in effigy in the U.K. every Nov. 5. In Moore's graphic novel, which was written in the 1980s, a climactic scene deals with a bombing in the London Underground.

At Comic-Con International in San Diego last month, producer Joel Silver told SCI FI Wire that he was unconcerned about the film's themes and called it a controversial movie for controversial times. "I mean, it's a difficult time, but I think that it's a smart movie," Silver said in a news conference. "It's that horrible word: intellectual. I mean, you have to think about the movie. ... It isn't just a teen slasher movie."

The movie is produced by The Matrix creators Larry and Andy Wachowski and stars Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving.

[crippled_avenger]

ovo je neovbican preokret, posle skepticnih recenzija skripta, V se nasao Father Geekovoj godisnjoj listi, da li je to neka liberalska ezoterija ili sta?

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20. WALLACE & GROMIT: CURSE OF THE WERERABBIT 10-4

19. HOOLIGANS 3-18

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17. HOSTEL 10-9

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10. NOBELITY 8-15

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8. HISTORY OF VIOLENCE 9-27

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6. HUSTLE & FLOW 3-17

5. MUNICH 12-20

4. GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK 11-2

3. KING KONG 12-10

2. SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGENCE 12-10

1. V...FOR VENDETTA 12-11

[Dreamlord]

Sramota je sto su braca uspela da se dokopaju ovog stripa. Bice to jos jedno u nizu razocarenja... Evo koga interesuje sta ce braca da izbace a sto je postojalo u stripu. U prevodu neki od najvaznijih elemenata stripa su zrtvovani. Dugo sam vec iznerviran zbog toga...

Malo skrolajte na dole da dodjete do V for Vendetta

http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2193

[crippled_avenger]

lepa kolekcija postera na http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/posters.html

narocito mi se dopala ova aluzija na CLOCKWORK takodje kultni Warnerov property koji V, cini se, planira, to jest po kritikama bi rekli pretenduje, da nasledi...

[crippled_avenger]

The latest Alan Moore graphic novel adaptation, after From Hell and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta has A for Auxiliary written all over it.

It all starts promisingly enough, with sombre chords and a vintage, black-and-white Warner Bros logo ushering us into a dark vision of a totalitarian Britain controlled in equal measure by police and media spin doctors.

Even when the guy in the Guy Fawkes mask appears, we buy the conceit, because, in among the disfigured-superhero hokum, there are signs that the film might have some interesting things to say about the way a totalitarian regime would keep the lid on dissent an age of global media and terrorist threats.

Alas, the hokum prevails, forcing poor old Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving – if it really is Hugo Weaving behind that mask – to trudge gamely on as things get increasingly silly.

V For Vendetta is a classic case of a sassy film with attitude bottling out and going for the schmaltz of the inspirational speech and the stirring CGI finale before it has earned its stripes.

Whether this will actually put off multiplex audiences remains to be seen, but one suspects that V will disappoint at the box-office.

Its DVD prospects look more hopeful: as undemanding home entertainment, this will do just fine, and it could even develop a cultish appeal.

The film is set in what looks like today's London – except that a curfew is in force, there are loudspeakers on every corner and the Underground has shut down.

Through a bigoted presenter on the British Television Network (BTN) – part of the Interlink by which the government controls hearts and minds – we learn that in the wake of some unspecified conflict, the US has become a giant plague pit, while Britain has turned into a gay-hating, Muslim-hating police state controlled by a Big Brother chancellor (a nicely sinister John Hurt), who  talks to his cabinet and his people from giant TV monitors.

Into this sick society comes caped crusader V, a man who talks in an alliterative doggerel. We don't need to be geniuses to work out that he has terrible skin because of something the regime once did to him, and that he wants to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

But in Act One he's content to save English rose Evey (Portman) from the attentions of some government thugs, blow up the Old Bailey and make a broadcast to the nation.

There are some inventive set design and some enjoyable set pieces – a knife fight in a deserted Underground station, a falling-domino sequence that cleverly introduces the film's V logo at the beginning of the final act.

But the film's nods to Guantanamo Bay, Orwell's 1984 and media spin doctors feel like PC window-dressing, rather than parts of a sustained argument.

V For Vendetta lurches into inanity around halfway, and though it features a few gritty performances – notably from Stephen Rea as an ultimately decent police chief – this is not a fifth of November that we will remember, remember for long.



Production companies
Warner Bros
Silver Pictures
Anarchos Production

International sales
Warner Bros
Entertainment Inc

Producers
Joel Silver
Grant Hill
Andy Wachowski
Larry Wachowski

Cinematography
Adrian Biddle

Editing
Martin Walsh

Production design
Owen Paterson

Music
Dario Marianelli

Key cast
Natalie Portman
Hugo Weaving
Stephen Rea
John Hurt
Stephen Fry