V is not for Victory

[athelind]

As much as I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for the best with the upcoming feature film of V For Vendetta, creator Alan Moore has completely disavowed the project.

He's also severed any and all connections with DC and AOLTimeWarnerTurnerMegaHugeConglomCo.

Comments

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

Alan Moore is well known for being famously difficult to work with.

But it's true, the record of alan moore comics to film has not been a good one. :/

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Up until now, Moore has been pretty tactful about the quality of the adaptations, mostly choosing to ignore them with a line or two about how there'd inevitably be some changes made when you hand a project over to an entirely different creative crew in an entirely different medium. Between the LXG mess and Silver fabricating the story about his "enthusiasm" for the V project, I can see how he'd be a little irked.

As for the track record: I enjoyed From Hell, though I confess I have yet to read the graphic novel. I also enjoyed LXG, but I agree that it's very, very different and much, much fluffier than the comic -- enough so that the idea that the producers stole someone else's script entirely and attached it to the Moore license seems all too likely.

[stalbon.livejournal.com]

I've not read the From Hell graphic novel either, but I did enjoy the movie, perhaps more for Depp's performance than anything else. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, however, was a very flawed and unimpressive work, despite the grand scale of everything. The comic is a great deal more enjoyable, perhaps because it just lets everything go and lets the blood and profanity fly.

[dragonrift.livejournal.com]

Honestly doesn't surprise me. The Wachowski Brothers have a rather tainted name now, so I'm pretty sure they were on the level of destroying this concept as well.