V for Vendetta Is Reportedly Getting an HBO TV Series

V for Vendetta is reportedly getting an HBO series.

Variety reports contiguous that Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame volition constitute an adaptation of the comic series, with DC's James Gunn and Peter Safran, Poison Pen's Ben Stephenson, and Wall to Wall Media's Leanne Klein each enforcement producing. No different details are presently disposable connected who is attached oregon however overmuch of the comic the bid would cover.

V for Vendetta is simply a graphic caller bid by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd published successful the 80s initially arsenic portion of the British comics anthology Warrior. The bid follows V, a revolutionary hidden down a Guy Fawkes mask, arsenic helium undertakes an ongoing ngo to bring down a fascist authorities that has taken basal successful the series' dystopian British setting. He joins forces with Evey Hammond, a young pistillate helium rescues from the concealed constabulary and who comes implicit clip to follow V's philosophies and, eventually, his goals.

The bid has go adjacent amended known successful caller years acknowledgment to a 2005 movie written and co-produced by Lana and Lilly Wachowski. The movie featured a truncated mentation of the graphic novels' communicative and starred Hugo Weaving arsenic V and Natalie Portman arsenic Evey. Just days ago, it was announced that the movie would instrumentality to theatres successful 2026 successful solemnisation of its 20th anniversary.

A V for Vendetta TV bid has antecedently been suggested arsenic a sequel to the bid Pennyworth astir Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred successful 1960s London. The bid was unluckily canceled aft its 3rd play and ne'er made a transportation with V for Vendetta. It's a shame - we truly liked the show.

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