The Wachowski Brothers will be producing a movie of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta.
Now, V isn't bad–although it's hardly Alan Moore's best work, as it is lacking in subtlety in many spots–but I don't see how they won't do a Constantine on it–and let's face it, that's one movie I'm not intending to see in theaters, if at all.
I mean, to understand one of the first scenes in the story, you have to know what Guy Fawkes Day is about, and in a country where they had to re-title The Madness of King George III because people thought they'd missed the first two installments, well, that's just going to be too much.
I do find interesting this little tidbit:
The project has been around for years, with Romeo Is Bleeding writer Hilary Henkin taking a stab at it at one point, but without success, the trade paper reported.
I mean, that would definitely produce an interesting movie–??Romeo is Bleeding was…different. The scene where Lena Olin has Gary Oldman in a scissor hold from the backseat of his car, and he's obviously loosing control and is going to crash and she's laughing. That's fucked up.