# When are the releasing V For Vendetta? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 9, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246 "2005-11-09T18:13:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/1 "2005-11-09T18:13:42Z")
Did V For Vendetta get postponed? I don’t see a release date on IMDB. ---
**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/2 "2005-11-09T18:17:21Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Did V For Vendetta get postponed? I don’t see a release date on IMDB. I heard that it got postponed to next year. ☹ Fandango is saying March 16, 2006: [http://www.fandango.com/MoviePage.aspx?mid=89339&source=bm\_button](http://www.fandango.com/MoviePage.aspx?mid=89339&source=bm_button) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/3 "2005-11-09T21:36:42Z")
How disappointing. I was looking forward to it this fall. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Barnes\_N.Noble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@Barnes\_N.Noble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barnes_N.Noble)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/4 "2005-11-09T22:58:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Fandango is saying March 16, 2006 Movie pushed to March = Studio saw rough-cut and there were major problems ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/5 "2005-11-09T23:15:34Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > How disappointing. I was looking forward to it this fall. ☹ It was supposed to be November 4th. I am bitterly disappointed as I love when things are appropriate. I wonder what these major problems are. The trailer look quite good. I hope the “problems” aren’t that it stuck to close to the book and therefore wasn’t commercial enough. ---
**Author:** ![Barnes\_N.Noble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@Barnes\_N.Noble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barnes_N.Noble)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/6 "2005-11-09T23:25:30Z")
To clarify, I don’t know that were problems but a March is dumping ground for movies. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/7 "2005-11-11T17:10:24Z")
They fired and replaced an actor well into principal photography. He played a character behind a mask, so they didn’t have to reshoot all his scenes, but it nonetheless caused disruption. The film may be a dog (given the talent involved, I doubt it), and the studio may be dumping it (more likely – it’s going to be a tough sell to average audiences), but that’s not why they delayed it, at least not in the first instance. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/8 "2005-11-11T17:13:22Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > The film may be a dog (given the talent involved, I doubt it), and the studio may be dumping it (more likely – it’s going to be a tough sell to average audiences) Eh, it’s already gotten a buttload of publicity, so I doubt the studio can dump it that easily. Release will probably be delayed, though. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/9 "2005-11-11T17:22:32Z")
_Remember, remember the Ides of March_ Somehow, not as catchy… ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/10 "2005-11-11T20:00:10Z")
If nerds were really that powerful in Hollywood, we’d be getting a lot more blow jobs. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/11 "2005-11-11T21:45:17Z")
> [@Breakdancing Duck](#): > > Just as with _From Hell_ and _The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen_, the finished movie will bear very little resemblance to the “source material” and the spazzoid dork crowd will do their usual bleating and shrieking, thus ensuring the film will tank at the box office and then that selfsame spazzoid dork crowd will bleat and shriek about the movie tanking at the box office, never once accepting personal responsibility for the film’s failure. …you are a downer dude. Is your goal to go into threads and shit all over them? Anyway… The official reason it was pushed back was because of the London underground bombings. Since a major plot in the movie is blowing up part of London… they thought it would be insensitive to release the movie so soon after ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/12 "2005-11-11T22:39:20Z")
I thought _From Hell_ and _League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_ tanked because they sucked. Or at least, that’s why I didn’t go see either of them. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/13 "2005-11-11T22:53:55Z")
> [@Breakdancing Duck](#): > > And precisely what about my post is untrue? Baby, just 'cuz you’re in the echo chamber it don’t mean the other 6 billion of us are. > [@](#): > > Life is cruel and harsh. Either accept that and deal or keep on living in Candyland. I’m sorry, was this line meant for a post in a death-penalty thread or something? If not, it seems like it might be juuuuuust a tetch over the top. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/14 "2005-11-11T23:14:33Z")
> [@Breakdancing Duck](#): > > And precisely what about my post is untrue? Hmmm…quite a bit really. Certainly the part about the “spazzoid dork crowd” actually having a decisive effect on the sucess or failure of a given movie. If the “true fans” really had that much power…well then why make adaptations at all? They make them because they think a story might have a wider audience. And if true fans want to note that in seeking a wider audience they have ignored just what made them love the story to begin with…seems like a useful commentary to me. > [@](#): > > that and deal or keep on living in Candyland. No. I can’t. I’ve found the current “Candyland” is nothing like the orginal. And I intend to spaz out till it has been reconfiguered to my dork liking. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/15 "2005-11-12T00:16:37Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > If the “true fans” really had that much power…well then why make adaptations at all? They make them because they think a story might have a wider audience. And if true fans want to note that in seeking a wider audience they have ignored just what made them love the story to begin with…seems like a useful commentary to me. This seems to me essentially the point. I haven’t finished reading _From Hell_ (the jaggy drawing gave me a headache and half the time I couldn’t read the handwriting; apparently this is a stylistic choice, but I am not a huge fan of style over substance) but I have seen how its feel and story are quite, quite different from the movie version. So why the heck did they call it _From Hell_? Take one scary hobbit. Take one Johnny Depp. Take one bit of popular-in-the-subconscious mythology. Stir frantically, come up with a Jack the Ripper movie that need have nothing to do with Alan Moore. The precept and the identity of Jack are not unique to Moore’s interpretation. As much as I hated _League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_, I understand the changes they made. Whoever pitched the idea to the studio must have said “Hey, look at this clever idea! Storybook characters from all kinds of different turn of the century novels that the audience has been forced to read in high school, get together and Fight Evil. The number of people we’ll get into the theater on the precept of BSing their way through a book report on Dorian Grey alone will be enormous!” They either didn’t get or didn’t care about the subtle little references and nods to other, less well-known works of the same period. I was assigned the comics in my 19th century literature course. I didn’t like the class but I did love the comic. But most of the audience just wouldn’t have GOTTEN the in-jokes. Hell, most of the people who read the comic probably didn’t get most of them. But a work that’s a cult classic in one medium just might not work in another one, or at least not without changing and chopping. _Lord of the Rings_ (in my opinion) made a marvelous series of books, if a little hard to read, a superb radio series, and a beautiful trio of movies. But each and every one was different from the others, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes in very obvious ones. There’s more, but I know I’m boring you all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/16 "2005-11-12T14:10:39Z")
Moderator explains and apologies for confusion: You will see that there are some gaps in the fabric of reality. We had a “sock puppet” who had posted several times, and who has had several different identities on our boards. We have therefore caused his posts to disappear. This is our standard practice with trolls and sock puppets. If they see that their efforts vanish into smoke, we hope that they will go away and stop pestering us. Unfortunately, this causes some hiccoughs in the logic of the thread. That seems a small price to pay, but sorry about it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-the-releasing-v-for-vendetta/330246/17 "2005-11-12T15:08:04Z")
Alas, hijacking from V for Vendetta into other Alan Moore-inspired movies… I didn’t think FROM HELL sucked at all, nor did I know that it tanked. I need to read the graphic novel more fully but I thought it did a decent enough scaling down of it to movie size. LEAGUE on the other hand would have been vastly improved if- A.) It has actually followed the graphic novel, or B.) it has called itself by another title and released the rights so that a real LEAGUE movie could be made.