Graphic Novel to Silver Screen

V for Vendetta

Written by Alan Moore

Illustrated by David Lloyd

Set in dystopian post-nuclear war Britain, V for Vendetta imagines a possible world where a totalitarian white-supremacist government called Norsefire has taken control of the country after executing all of its opposition in concentration camps. ‘V’ is the only one to have survived and escaped.

Secret police called ‘Fingermen’ patrol the streets dispatching punishment to anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path. One evening a teenage girl named Evey ‘Eve’ Hammond is detained by a group of Fingermen, but she is saved by ‘V’ before they have a chance to rape and murder her.

‘V’, a dark enigmatic anarchist revolutionary who wears a Guy Fawkes mask, has declared war on the Britain’s oppressive regime using his vast knowledge of stealth hand-to-hand combat, explosives, covert chicanery, computer hacking.

Eve, who has also been greatly affected by Norsefire, joins ‘V’ and eventually succeeds him in the struggle against the police state. Eric Finch, the chief of Scotland Yard (which is now known as the Nose), is assigned to track down ‘V’. Finch, a utilitarian and ethical individual, must in the end face his guilt over his own involvement in Norsefire’s barbarity.

Vertigo Comics

296 pages

Colour

Hardcover

Citation: Moore, Alan (writer) & Lloyd, David (illustrator). V for vendetta, New York: Vertigo Comics, 2005.

V for Vendetta (2005)

Director: James McTeigue

Stars: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Stephen Rea, John Hurt, Stephen Fry.