V for Vendetta

Via Citizen Stuart comes news of a film I am looking forward to seeing:

Incidentally, I found some news about another "V" that interests me on the internet tonight. It's not really related to the above story, except maybe in a tenuous philosophical sense, but being as Vs seem to be in the air at the moment, I thought I'd mention it. One of the best graphic novels of the Eighties - maybe the best - was "V for Vendetta" by Alan Moore. It features a mysterious (and morally questionable) character called V who fights against a near future Fascist regime - an outfit so extreme that they use video cameras to monitor the streets ("For your protection"), lock people up without trial and use computer databases to keep tabs on everyone, can you imagine that? Anyway, there's a film version currently in production, by the same guys who made "The Matrix". It's due for release in November (very appropriately, for anyone familiar with the story). I reckon it could be a good 'un, from what I understand it should be reasonably faithful to the original.