Editing V for Vendetta (section)

==Adaptations==
===Film===
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In December 2005 Warner Bros. released a feature-film adaptation of ''V for Vendetta'', directed by [[James McTeigue]] from a screenplay by [[the Wachowskis]], with [[Natalie Portman]] starring as Evey Hammond and [[Hugo Weaving]] appearing as V.<ref name="boxofficemojo">{{cite web | publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]] | title=V for Vendetta (2006) | url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=vforvendetta.htm | access-date=2 October 2005 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606215126/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=vforvendetta.htm | archive-date=6 June 2011 }}</ref>

Alan Moore distanced himself from the film, as he has with other [[Alan Moore#Film adaptations|screen adaptations]] of his works. He ended co-operation with his publisher, DC Comics, after its corporate parent, [[Warner Bros.]], failed to retract statements about Moore's supposed endorsement of the movie.<ref name="slam">{{cite web|title=Moore Slams V for Vendetta Movie, Pulls LoEG from DC Comics|date=22 April 2006|work=[[Comic Book Resources]]|url=http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=14937|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081026235244/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article|archive-date=26 October 2008}}</ref>

After reading the script, Moore remarked:

{{blockquote|[The movie] has been turned into a [[George W. Bush|Bush]]-era parable by people too timid to set a [[political satire]] in their own country. ... It's a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by [[neoconservative]]s – which is not what the comic ''V for Vendetta'' was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about England.<ref>{{cite web|year=2006|title=Alan Moore: The last angry man|publisher=MTV|url=http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/interviews/m/moore_alan_060315|access-date=30 August 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901005535/http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/interviews/m/moore_alan_060315/|archive-date=1 September 2006}}</ref>}}

He later added that if the Wachowskis had wanted to protest about what was going on in the United States, then they should have used a political narrative that directly addressed such issues, similar to what Moore had done before with Britain. The film arguably changes the original message by having removed any reference to actual [[anarchism]] in the revolutionary actions of V. An interview with producer [[Joel Silver]] reveals that he identifies the V of the comics as a clear-cut "superhero... a masked avenger who pretty much saves the world", a simplification that goes against Moore's own statements about V's role in the story.<ref>{{cite web|author=Douglas, Edward|year=2006|title=V for Vendetta's Silver Lining|work=Comingsoon.net|url=http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13588|access-date=6 April 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060418063354/http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13588|archive-date=18 April 2006}}</ref>

Co-author and illustrator David Lloyd, by contrast, embraced the adaptation.<ref>{{cite web|title=V at Comic Con|url=http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/vforvendetta/comiccon_text.html|access-date=6 April 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507074202/http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/vforvendetta/comiccon_text.html|archive-date=7 May 2013}}</ref> In an interview with ''[[Newsarama]]'' he states:

{{bquote|It's a terrific film. The most extraordinary thing about it for me was seeing scenes that I'd worked on and crafted for maximum effect in the book translated to film with the same degree of care and effect. The "transformation" scene between Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving is just great. If you happen to be one of those people who admires the original so much that changes to it will automatically turn you off, then you may dislike the film—but if you enjoyed the original and can accept an adaptation that is different to its source material but equally as powerful, then you'll be as impressed as I was with it.<ref>{{cite news|title=David Lloyd: A Conversation|url=http://www.newsarama.com/general/DavidLloyd/DavidLloyd.htm|work=Newsarama|access-date=14 July 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524234747/http://www.newsarama.com/general/DavidLloyd/DavidLloyd.htm|archive-date=24 May 2006}}
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[[Steve Moore (comics)|Steve Moore]] (no relation to Alan Moore) wrote a [[V for Vendetta (novelization)|novelisation]] of the film's screenplay, published in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|title=Steve Moore – obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10763765/Steve-Moore-obituary.html|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=13 April 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912011951/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10763765/Steve-Moore-obituary.html|archive-date=12 September 2017}}</ref>

===Television===
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On 4 October 2017, it was announced that [[Channel 4]] was developing a television series based on the ''V for Vendetta'' comic book, which ultimately entered [[development hell]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Johnson|first=Rich|title=SCOOP: Channel 4 Developing A {{'}}''V For Vendetta''{{'}} TV Series|url=https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/10/04/scoop-channel-4-v-for-vendetta-tv-series|website=[[Bleeding Cool|BleedingCool.com]]|date=4 October 2017|access-date=4 October 2017|archive-date=5 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005051453/https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/10/04/scoop-channel-4-v-for-vendetta-tv-series/|url-status=live}}</ref> On 29 July 2019, the day following the [[series premiere]] of ''[[Pennyworth (TV series)|Pennyworth]]'', previously presented ostensibly as solely a direct [[prequel]] to [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] series ''[[Gotham (TV series)|Gotham]]'' (2014–2019),<ref>{{cite web|title=New "''Pennyworth''" Series Confirmed Same Universe as "''Gotham''"|url=https://bleedingcool.com/tv/new-pennyworth-series-confirmed-same-universe-as-gotham|work=[[Bleeding Cool]]|last=Kade|first=Leigh|date=19 July 2019|access-date=19 July 2019|archive-date=1 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101075525/https://bleedingcool.com/tv/new-pennyworth-series-confirmed-same-universe-as-gotham/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzkjsG0UYSg|title=Pennyworth ''Season Two Cast & Producer Interview – EPIX''|date=12 October 2020|last=Heller|first=Bruno|author-link=Bruno Heller|access-date=12 October 2020|via=[[YouTube]]|work=Popverse|archive-date=12 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012090737/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzkjsG0UYSg&gl=US&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref> series co-showrunner [[Danny Cannon]] confirmed that ''Pennyworth'' would also serve as a loose [[prequel]] to ''V for Vendetta'', with the [[Alternate history|British Civil War]] depicted in the series' [[Pennyworth (season 1)|first season]] eventually leading to the formation of the [[Norsefire]] government of ''V for Vendetta'',<ref name="V">{{cite web|last=Gomez|first=Manny|title=EPIX'S ''Pennyworth'': Setting Up 60's DC London And The Road To ''V For Vendetta'' – SDCC2019|url=https://lrmonline.com/news/epixs-pennyworth-setting-up-60s-dc-london-and-the-road-to-v-for-vendetta-sdcc2019|work=LRMonline|date=29 July 2019|access-date=29 July 2019|quote="The arcing story this season is about a civil war that is brewing, and that came from a conversation from myself and [[Bruno Heller|Bruno {{no italic|[}}Heller{{no italic|]}}]] where we were considering doing ''V for Vendetta'', we were like "that is much a very 80s 90s kind of show, what would it be in the 60s?’ What kind of world would be have to create, like in ''[[Gotham (TV series)|Gotham]]'' there would eventually be Batman in this there would eventually be ''V for Vendetta'' {{no italic|[}}[[Norsefire]] and [[V (character)|V]]{{no italic|]}}. So we took that brewing civil war as a stepping stone". – [[Danny Cannon]]|archive-date=11 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811204201/https://lrmonline.com/news/epixs-pennyworth-setting-up-60s-dc-london-and-the-road-to-v-for-vendetta-sdcc2019/|url-status=live}}</ref> a sentiment echoed by co-showrunner [[Bruno Heller]] on 11 December 2020, on the day of the [[Pennyworth (season 2)|second season]] premiere,<ref name="CBR">{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZYpfXsWIJ8|title=''(Video)'' Pennyworth'': Bruno Heller Talks Season 2,'' V For Vendetta'', & The War That Breaks London''|date=11 December 2020|last=Heller|first=Bruno|author-link=Bruno Heller|access-date=11 December 2020|via=[[YouTube]]|work=[[Comic Book Resources|CBR Presents]]|quote=The ''V For Vendetta'' world conceptually – it's [like] where this world may or may not end up. What [''V for Vendetta'' creators [[Alan Moore]], David Lloyd and [[Tony Weare]]{{no italic|]}} did so well was to create a {{no italic|[}}[[Fascism|Fascist]]{{no italic|]}} version of England that felt like England. It wasn't [[Nazi Germany]] imposed on that world. It was very much the parochial, familiar world of England transformed into something dark. That's what we've tried to do, and what [Cannon] did so brilliantly with the visuals, particularly in this season. It's England with this shadow across its face." – [[Bruno Heller]]|archive-date=14 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214004157/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZYpfXsWIJ8|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="CBR2">{{cite web|last=Zachary|first=Brandon|title=(Article) ''Pennyworth'': Bruno Heller Talks Season 2, ''V For Vendetta'', & The War That Breaks London|url=https://www.cbr.com/pennyworth-bruno-heller-season-2-v-for-vendetta|work=[[Comic Book Resources]]|date=13 December 2020|access-date=13 December 2020|archive-date=13 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213234123/https://www.cbr.com/pennyworth-bruno-heller-season-2-v-for-vendetta/|url-status=live}}</ref> and again on 5 February 2021, in the lead-up to the [[Hiatus (television)|mid-season premiere]].<ref name="SciFiNow">{{cite web|last=Harper|first=Rachael|title=''Pennyworth'' Season Two Secrets: What's It All About, Alfie?|url=https://www.scifinow.co.uk/interviews/pennyworth-season-two-secrets-whats-it-all-about-alfie|work=[[SciFiNow]]|date=5 February 2021|access-date=5 February 2021|url-status=live|quote=One of the few stories that have been told in this kind of world is ''V For Vendetta'' [and] conceptually, this {{no italic|[}}[[civil war]] is a] [[prequel]] to ''V For Vendetta''. God, I wouldn't hold us up against [[Alan Moore]], but with comic books you have to find a throughline, and that's very political [for ''Pennyworth''].|archive-date=20 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020033318/https://www.scifinow.co.uk/interviews/pennyworth-season-two-secrets-whats-it-all-about-alfie/}} Quoting [[Bruno Heller]].</ref> Characters wearing [[V (character)|V]]'s [[Guy Fawkes mask]] were later introduced in the series' 2022 [[Pennyworth (season 3)|third season]], set five years after the first two seasons.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/trailer-for-season-3-pennyworth-wild-comic-book-cameo-1849511853|title=Trailer for the third season of ''Pennyworth'' has a truly confounding comic book cameo|first=Sam|last=Barsanti|website=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=8 September 2022|access-date=8 September 2022|archive-date=8 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908164530/https://www.avclub.com/trailer-for-season-3-pennyworth-wild-comic-book-cameo-1849511853|url-status=live}}</ref>