Editing V for Vendetta (section)

===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>