"V for Vendetta" pushed back to March

[thewayne]

One of the best comic book collection/graphic novels, in my ever so humble opinion, is Alan Moore's V for Vendetta. It tells the story of a fascist British government and a lone figure taking revenge upon it.

It was made into a movie! (insert Happy Happy Joy Joy here) It starred Natalie Portman (The Professional, Star Wars, etc), and Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith, Elrond). In fact, Portman was almost arrested by NYPD when she returned from England and principle cinematography: she had to shave her head for the role, she was pulled over for expired registration and her look didn't come close to her driver's license photo.

ANYWAY, the tag line for the film was "Remember, Remember the 5th of November" which is Guy Fawkes Day, the anniversary of a plot to blow up Parliament. The movie was originally scheduled to be released on November 4, so the tag line would have been pretty cool.

Now it's been pushed back to March, allegedly for post-production reasons.

Sigh.

Oh, it's being produced by the Wachowski Brothers, of Matrix fame.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=3&id=32070&type=0


And the Slashdot thread from whence I learned of the delay.

Comments

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

The movie was originally scheduled to be released on November 4, so the tag line would have been pretty cool.

That's okay, at the first press conferance for the movie they had announced that the movie was going to be released on the 100th anniversary of the gunpowder plot. I kept wondering where they got the time machine.