from today's Variety online:
Hot off a Golden Globe nom for her work in "Closer," Natalie Portman is in final negotiations to topline the Wachowski brothers' "V Is for Vendetta," for Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver.
An adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel of the same name, action-heavy script was penned by the "Matrix" scribes. Their longtime first assistant director James McTeigue will make his helming debut on the pic. The Wachowskis will produce "Vendetta" with Warners-based Silver.
"Vendetta" takes place in an alternate future in which Germany wins WWII and Great Britain becomes a fascist state. A terrorist freedom fighter known only as "V" begins a violent guerrilla campaign to destroy those who've succumbed to totalitarianism, and recruits a young woman he's rescued -- or possibly kidnapped --from the secret police to join him.
Hot off a Golden Globe nom for her work in "Closer," Natalie Portman is in final negotiations to topline the Wachowski brothers' "V Is for Vendetta," for Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver.
An adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel of the same name, action-heavy script was penned by the "Matrix" scribes. Their longtime first assistant director James McTeigue will make his helming debut on the pic. The Wachowskis will produce "Vendetta" with Warners-based Silver.
"Vendetta" takes place in an alternate future in which Germany wins WWII and Great Britain becomes a fascist state. A terrorist freedom fighter known only as "V" begins a violent guerrilla campaign to destroy those who've succumbed to totalitarianism, and recruits a young woman he's rescued -- or possibly kidnapped --from the secret police to join him.
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That sounds like it could be really good. It reminds me a little of "Fatherland" starring Rutger Hauer which was really good except for the final revelation which was anticlimactic.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
fpw Wrote:"Vendetta" takes place in an alternate future in which Germany wins WWII and Great Britain becomes a fascist state. A terrorist freedom fighter known only as "V" begins a violent guerrilla campaign to destroy those who've succumbed to totalitarianism, and recruits a young woman he's rescued -- or possibly kidnapped --from the secret police to join him.
Alternate future is very interesting theory. It's remind me of The Man in the High Castle by P.K.Dick. That was awesome SF novel.
About this "Vendetta", Hmm, sounds very good. I must see this!
jimbow8 Wrote:That sounds like it could be really good. It reminds me a little of "Fatherland" starring Rutger Hauer which was really good except for the final revelation which was anticlimactic.
Fatherland came 10 years later (Moore began V in 1982). If you haven't read the graphic novel, by all means do. If Hollywood treats it with the same respect it treated his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, you won't recognize the story.
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"It means 'Ask the next question.' Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created." Theodore Sturgeon.
I totally missed your mention of Alan Moore (or didn't immediately recognize it as author of Watchmen). I will have to check this out. I also didn't realize that Alan Moore wrote From Hell as a graphic novel. That was turned into a very good movie, so there is hope. Let's hope that Hollywood doesn't screw up Watchmen also.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
fpw Wrote:Fatherland came 10 years later (Moore began V in 1982). If you haven't read the graphic novel, by all means do. If Hollywood treats it with the same respect it treated his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, you won't recognize the story.
I picked up V after I was enthralled by Watchmen. Very good storytelling from what I remember. I'll have to read it again. But, if I could choose, I'd still rather see Watchmen be faithfully adapted for the big screen.
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I think I've read only one alternate history book and that was Harry Turtledove's American Front. I liked it but found it a bit dry in some areas. How does he compare to Moore??
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V for Vendetta has been my favourite graphic novel (hell..my favourite NOVEL) for nearly 20 years. I tend to read it at least once a year and there's always some little thing that I missed previously.
I hope to hell the Wachowski bros get it right - it truly deserves star treatment
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I hope to hell the Wachowski bros get it right - it truly deserves star treatment
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