Silver stated: 'Alan was odd, but he was enthusiastic and encouraging us to do this. In the New York Times article, Silver stated that about twenty years prior to this movie's release, he met with Moore and David Gibbons when Silver acquired the movie rights to V for Vendetta and Watchmen. It's been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country.' This conflict between Moore and DC Comics was the subject of an article in The New York Times on March 12, 2006, five days before the U.S. The words 'fascism' and 'anarchy' occur nowhere in the film.

Moore was quoted as saying that the comic book had been 'specifically about things like fascism and anarchy. Although Silver called Moore directly to apologize, no public retraction appeared. I wasn't interested in Hollywood', and demanded that DC Comics force Warner Brothers to issue a public retraction and apology for Silver's 'blatant lies'.

Producer Joel Silver said at a press conference that Screenwriter Lana Wachowski had talked with Moore, and that 'Moore was very excited about what Lana had to say.' Moore disputed this, reporting that he told Wachowski 'I didn't want anything to do with films. All of these changes infuriated Alan Moore, who claimed that the fascist government in his work had been 'defanged', and refused to have any credit for this movie.Īlan Moore, writer of the original graphic novel, greatly disliked this movie, criticizing the script for 'having plot holes you wouldn't have gotten away with on Wizzer and Chips in the 1960s.' He ended cooperation with his publisher, DC Comics, after its corporate parent, Warner Brothers, failed to retract statements about Moore's supposed endorsement of this movie. Also, the central plot of the movie, of the government targeting the population with a virus attack, is not present in the book, and while it is hinted that a nuclear war happened, the ones responsible are left unseen. Gordon Deitrich is a criminal, and Evey's lover, and he is killed by another criminal. His aim is not liberty, but anarchy, and he is actually abusive with Evey, an illiterate sixteen-year-old prostitute in the novel.

V, on the other hand, is way more violent and less selective in who he kills, often murdering innocents in the process. For instance, Chancellor Sutler (Adam Susan in the novel) is an awkward and timid man, who sincerely believes in fascism, and leaves all important decisions to F.A.T.E., a supercomputer also absent in the movie. Also, the government, while more sinister in this movie, is, at the same time, less human, with the authorities in the graphic novel being more complex. The movie omits or changes several important details in order to make V and his actions more morally appealing.

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