The face behind the mask

[mrph]

V For Vendetta movie news.

Looks like V is now going to be played by Hugo Weaving.

That could work. Assuming they don't screw up the rest of it, of course.

Comments

[zotz]

I'm going to have to break with habit and say that I like that animation.

Hugo weaving could work, yes.

[caveynik.livejournal.com]

I used to read Warrior magazine and I *loved* VfV. Im not usually a fan of graphic novels - but I thought this was great.

Lets hope the film will be at least bareable, though the story was kinda complex.

[diffrentcolours]

It's a Wachowski Brothers and Joel Silver effort. I am now scared, having not realised that this film project actually existed. Previously, I thought it was a cruel, sick joke.

"Nobody can tell you what V is, you must experience it for yourself"

[giolla.livejournal.com]

Assuming they don't screw up the rest of it, of course
Given recent treatments of other graphic novels and comments, I think that's an unreasonably large assumption.

Still the website animation is good, so we can but hope. And failing that... burn them!

[grega.livejournal.com]

I'm not holding my breath. Since Nik mentioned Warrior, what we really need is a Father Shandor film!

[jorune.livejournal.com]

I heard something months ago that made me fear for the worst. Rather than an anonymous figure in post apocalyptic london V is a lone figure in a nazi occupied london.

Nazi occupied europe? is it possible to come up with a more cheesy background?

The graphic novel had a claustrophic feel of a shattered london and a small group fighting amongst themselves. Plus excessive amounts of pain, fear and LSD.

I fear the wachowski's will turn it into the Punisher with a mockney accent. Plus buckets and buckets of pointless bullet time.

[giolla.livejournal.com]

I'm just hoping that because they're using a "star" they won't feel compelled to reveal V's face.

One of the things that made V really work for me is that you never got to see who/what they were.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

At least one comment about the casting news suggested that Weaving was a good choice because he was happy to play the role without unmasking, which is a start...

(I'm still twitching about Stallone/Dredd...)

[giolla.livejournal.com]

Lot's of new stuff up on the warner bros site, just in case you'd not noticed. Including a release date.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Aha. Thanks - I've just been browsing the new stuff. It's... well, it's more promising than I was expecting.

Photos of Natalia Portman with her hair cut off have already been appearing in the tabloids, as that's how she looked when promoting Star Wars - but nobody I've seen linked that to V.

And I had fun seeing how many different quotes were linked to the V mask on the site - Blake, Shakespeare, V himself. Although they attribute "Remember, remember" to Fawkes himself, which I don't think is strictly accurate.

The less promising stuff can be found here and here, though. Hmm.

[giolla.livejournal.com]

It definately wasn't Fawkes.

Hmm, those do paint a less promising picture. Oh well I know I'll go and see it regardless.