V For Vendetta Comic Book Set

The one thing that can be said with certainty about v for vendetta is that it s the strangest comic book superhero movie you re.

V for vendetta comic book set. Moore sold their film rights to the comic book mr. The film version has an explosive endpoint already set and the filmmakers build carefully to. V for vendetta however is not most comic book movies set in a future totalitarian britain the film opens the same way many comic book stories do a damsel in distress is saved by our hero. V for vendetta is the most astonishing movie to come from a major studio in a long time.

We didn t do it innocently. Lloyd the illustrator of v for vendetta also found it difficult to sympathize with mr. He went on to write the from hell series about jack the ripper and the league of. The story is set in a fascist england of the near.

You could hardly level that accusation though against v for vendetta written and. Comic book superhero movies almost always hijack reality reducing cinema to a state of pure uncut escapism. Plus often in the comic book v for vendetta moore and lloyd seem to be finding the plot as they go. The film is now set in britain in 2020.

V for vendetta was first published in 1982 and was followed by watchmen and batman. V for vendetta 2005 next up was the risky adaptation of alan moore s cult comic book v for vendetta directed by james mcteigue. The new york times article also interviewed david lloyd about moore s reaction to the movie s production stating mr. When he and mr.

Portman is heartbreakingly effective as the working class british. Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian britain v for vendetta tells the story of a mild mannered young woman named evey portman who is rescued from a life and death situation by a.