‘V for Vendetta’ TV Series in the Works at HBO
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What V for Vendetta needs is a shameless capitalist cash grab to really seal its supremacy. All hail the mighty dollar!!!
They already did that when they sold the masks to dopey internet people.
Isn't that because it was popularized by Anonymous?
Did the masks not exist prior?
That particular design is Warner Bros. film merchandise.
According to the Wikipedia they existed long before.
I do not trust WB in the slightest to do a story about fighting fascism when they've bent over for it repeatedly.
The fascists are going to be woke-coded
"V for Vendetta: the Prequel" In this blockbuster miniseries we follow Guy Fawkes and the motley crew of the Gunpowder Plot as they plan their explosive demonstration of love for Catholic monarchy.
Includes a steamy romantic subplot where Guy Fawkes falls in love with a Cardinal.
HAHAHAHAHA
My kneejerk reaction is "Why? It's been done!" but the Watchmen HBO show was totally different and was quite good.
Yeah. The live-action series was amazing but the animated movies just retreaded the live-action movie.
Will it be a retelling of the movie, or an extended universe story?
"Why create new things when we can endlessly recycle old shit."
~HBO
It's also a consequence of late stage capitalism that nothing is new but just endlessly recycled brand new nostalgia
How can we piss off Alan Moore?
I know!
Sure, but just by mentioning his name he's probably pissed off. He's written some AMAZING stories, but he's grumpy at everything.
He's also written some deeply fucked up shit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminations_(short_story_collection)
Maybe it got better after the story where the 5 year old is sold into sex slavery and has a hemispherectomy to make her more compliant, but I won't know...
That's fair. Maybe even story wise that's a great story, but I agree I don't think I want to know. But I'm not looking to call out the stories I don't find amazing.
It's fiction. As you described it, it may, horrible as it is, be based on truth. I don't know and I don't want to know.
I'm not here to champion all of his work. I just know that he's written some excellent stories and I choose to believe those stories are fictional.
Lol, a Smiling Friends reference for Alan Moore? Love it.
Alan Moore is such a grumpy old fuck but I feel like at this point they just enjoy poking the man.
I say this as someone who’s loved Alan Moore since I was a teen.
He kinda went off the rails over the whole "Before Watchmen" stuff. Basically saying DC has been riding his coat tails for years and shouldn't be using "his" characters.
And I'm like...
First off, the Watchmen characters are 2nd and 3rd generation knock offs of the Charlton characters he was told he couldn't use.
Second, nobody else should play with "your" characters?
I guess we better let Mick Anglo (Marvelman) know. Ditto Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson (Swamp Thing), or all the other public domain creators he failed to credit for the America's Best stuff. I'm sure L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie and Lewis Carroll will be thrilled at the porn take on their characters.
He did a porn take on Lewis Carroll characters?
But yeah dude is unhinged so say the least.
Lost Girls. Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy swapping sex stories while snowed in at a hotel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Girls_(graphic_novel)
Wow. That synopsis seems problematic. Why do some artists insist on injecting child sexuality themes into their art? Garth Nix, Stephen King, Alan Moore, tons of rockstars (although we know why with those guys), can it really just be that they’re all secretly pedophiles and just super bad at hiding it?
In fairness, Lewis Carroll and J.M. Barrie were also pretty problematic in their own ways. Not sure about Baum.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/lewis-carrolls-shifting-reputation-9432378/
https://www.casemateipm.com/blog/2025/01/03/the-complex-life-of-j-m-barrie-author-of-peter-pan/
Turns out Baum was also problematic, just "not that way!"
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/10/27/130862391/l-frank-baum-advocated-extermination-of-native-americans
Oh I know they were. Lewis Carroll was almost certainly a pedophile himself wasn’t he?
Like that doesn’t make this okay thought.
What's hilarious is that the critics were trying to dance around it calling it "Art" and "Literature" and Moore was adamant: "No, it's porn."
Yeah I saw that. Hilarious. Whatever you tell them it is they will say it’s the opposites. Art critic is a bullshit job.
IIRC, he had an informal deal with DC where they’d let the books go out of print and the copyright revert to him. So every adaptation is kind of like the 90s Roger Corman Fantastic 4, where a big part of the reason for it existing is so that the studio can keep the copyright.
They should base it in the US in the dystopian future year uh... 2025.
i shall pirate it then as intended
I’m excited cuz if it’s good then I’ll be pleasantly surprised and it’ll be a great time watching. If it’s bad then oh well, I’ll pretend it doesn’t exist. There’s so much schlock out there that I’m desensitized to it all and won’t get my panties in a bunch lol.
Also it’s paramount to find the right person to play V!!😱
Assuming that V features in it, I agree that that casting choice will probably be make-or-break. So do you think they'll go with Chris Pratt or Timothée Chalamet?
Obviously RDJ Or Pedro Pascal, where you been?
Excuse me? Jack Black is right there.
Oh god. I have hopes that they’ll come up with someone better seeing as it’s HBO and not Netflix😂
And Charlie Day as the whacky new sidekick character.
I saw a gamertag "guy with no fawkes" and I think about that a lot.
Oh brother. 🙄
To be fair, HBO is a better fit for this than Netflix or Amazon would be.
I know its unlikely, but what if its just the plot from the comic done well? Anti fascist as fuck and a good time for no one. I think we could do with that atm.
The comic really is better than the movie. I want to see the real V depicted in the show, would be excellent. He's truly a psychopath in the comic, a rather irredeemable one at that. Would be great to see the comic plot done well vs the white washing that made V into a hero in the movie. He's very far from a hero, I don't even know if he fits the antihero role either, mostly in the comic he's just a deranged man that's been destroyed by society, has a boatload of bloodlust and seeks revenge through some rather dubious means (and innocent lives be damned).
If I had a nickel every time Alan Moore wrote about a deranged man who was destroyed by society...
I believe the plan is to just film reality. Pretty much lines up with the plot.
Fingers crossed the ending is in line with the movie then.
Why is James Gunn involved in fucking everything?
This could be amazing, but I'm betting he's gonna make it "zany".
Because they're the head of the studio that handles all DC projects, and DC is the current owner of the comic. His role is "should we spend money on this", and the answer seems to be, yes.
I like Gunn and his work, but he isn't actually involved in this project.
I don't want a remake/tv show...
but, if I had to pick a director, I would pick Zack Synder. Especially over Gunn, easy.
Snyder completely missed the point of Watchmen. I don’t think we need to see V having the point missed. Again.