Remember, Remember, The Fifth of November

[filkertom]

All right, I know that Alan Moore is apparently really cheesed with the movies in general.

But the trailer for V For Vendetta looks pretty damn cool.

Comments

Color me impressed

[nezmaster.livejournal.com]

Alan Moore is apparently really cheesed with the movies in general.

Do you blame him. I already knew this, but that article clinched it. Alan Moore is a god. Admittedly I like his older stuff more than his newer stuff, but even so, I consider him the greatest comics writer ever by far. It's just to bad that
1> People attempting to emulate his and Frank Miller's work have virtually destroyed the comics industry.
2> Al movies based on Alan Moore work have sucked wind.

Re: Color me impressed

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, either Harlan Ellison or Stephen King -- unless it was Spider Robinson -- compared the novels of Ira Levin (Rosemary's Baby, etc.) to fine clockworks: take out one little piece, and the whole thing doesn't work. Either it's adaptation proof, or it has to be done as written, neither of which is Hollywood Business As Usual.

I think of Moore as the same kind of writer. Everything is so meticulous, so necessary, that even the smallest touches are vital and cannot be ignored. And nobody, nobody writes segues and transitions like he does.

Re: Color me impressed

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Interesting that you talk about Levin like that, if only because I remember hearing--and have now confirmed with IMDb--that Roman Polanski, when he adapted Rosemary's Baby to the screen, went to incredible lengths to stay true. He was apparently disappointed when he discovered Levin had fabricated a detail about an issue of The New Yorker because that meant he couldn't get the same one.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does, but then again trailers are good for that...

I'm hopeful, but not yet optimistic.

[delayra.livejournal.com]

Chills. It gave me chills. Just the trailer and I had goosebumps

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Looking at the trailer cold, having not read the comic yet, it looks damn interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing what Hugo Weaving looks like under the mask.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Well... um... actually.... ;)

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

If they fuck up anything, I hope they don't fuck up that part.

[youngcurmudgeon.livejournal.com]

Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November

... Guy Fawkes Day?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Precisely. Have you, ah, read the graphic novel?

[youngcurmudgeon.livejournal.com]

Not yet. I just like the image of British children frolicking in honor of a bald Natalie Portman.