V POUR VENDETTA -2005 - James McTeigue

[kill bill]

Je pensais que les Wachowski avaient abandonné le cinéma et, quelle ne fut pas ma surprise ce soir quand, en ouvrant un communiqué de Warner, je vois :
V AS FOR VENDETTA (belle bourde au passage) - prévu pour une sortie française le 9 novembre 2005 ( , vous excitez pas, ça peut encore changer d'ici la) - avec indiqué Joel Silver à la prod' et les deux frangins à la réal'

Et la, quelle ne fut pas non plus ma surprise de voir que personne n'en a apparement (soyons prudent... mais j'ai usé de la fonction recherche quand même ) sur Devildead, et que le film est timidement annoncé sur Imdb
Donc, je pousse un peu mes recherches, je trouve deux liens intéressants que j'ai copié-collé plus bas.

Donc, en fait Warner s'est un peu avancé en annonçant le retour à la mise en scène des frangins, puisqu'ils ne seront apparemment que producteurs et que le poste de réal' sera tenu par leur premier assistant réal, James McTeigue.

Mais bon, V Pour Vendetta d'Alan Moore porté à l'écran, avouez qu'il s'agit là d'une sacrée nouvelle !!!


Lien 1 :
http://www.movieweb.com/news/news.php?id=5958

V for Vendetta: According to Variety, years ago, the Wachowskis were hot to adapt Alan Moore's graphic novel "V for Vendetta", but then set it aside as they were consumed by their massive Matrix trilogy.

Now, their first assistant director, James McTeigue, is in final negotiations with Warner Bros. to make his helming debut on the pic. The Wachowskis will also produce the pic with Warners-based producer Joel Silver.

An intensely dark graphic novel, "V for Vendetta" takes place in an alternate future in which Germany wins WWII and Great Britain becomes a fascist state. A terrorist freedom fighter known only as "V" begins a violent guerilla campaign to destroy those who've succumbed to totalitarianism, and recruits a young woman he's rescued from the secret police to join him.

McTeigue, who recently wrapped duties as first a.d. on Star Wars -- Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, has slowly climbed the ladder from third a.d. in 1991 on The Girl Who Came Late to second a.d. on Street Fighter to first a.d. on the first Matrix pic. It's a transition not usually undertaken by second unit directors, but McTeigue will have the full support and counsel of his longtime collaborators, the Wachowskis, insiders say.

The project has been around for years, with Romeo is Bleeding scribe Hilary Henkin taking a stab at the pic at one point, but without success




Lien 2 :
http://www.killermovies.com/v/vforvende ... /4642.html

Wachowski Brothers To Produce 'V For Vendetta'
[Thursday, November 18th, 2004]
James McTeigue (First assistant director of Matrix) is in talks to make his directorial debut on the adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel V for Vendetta, according to Variety.

The Wachowski brothers were previously eager to adapt the novel but were sidetracked by the Matrix trilogy. The brothers are co-producing the project and are said to be completely behind McTeigue on the project.

An intensely dark graphic novel, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate future in which Germany wins WWII and Great Britain becomes a fascist state. A terrorist freedom fighter known only as "V" begins a violent guerrilla campaign to destroy those who've succumbed to totalitarianism, and recruits a young woman he's rescued from the secret police to join him

[romain2]

Jean claude tergal a déjà ete adapté
sinon V pour vandetta adapté est plutot bizzare, vu que c'est vraiment une BD intelot, trés daté, assez particulière dans le bibliographie d'alan Moore, pas ce qu'il a fait de mieux à mon avis, mais elle a eu un beau succés;

Je ne sais pas ce que cela pourrait donner.
je préfère spiderman ou les xmen au ciné (aprés en bd c'est parfois pas ca)

from hell etait sans dout le projet le plus interessant comics de moore à adapter, celui qui qui avait le plus de potentiel, avec la ligue, mais le résutlat a ,parait il, ete decevant.

[Congdetachaouille]

Il y a 2-3 ans, un journaliste avait publié une script review féroce du scénario des Wachowski pour V pour Vendetta, listant un grand nombre d'éléments qui, à son avis, rendaient le script indigeste. Voici (sans rire) ce qu'il reprochait au script :
- Trop de politique
- Un personnage principal qui n'inspire pas la sympathie
- Des choses terribles dont se rend coupable le héros et que le scénario semble approuver moralement
- Une trop grande ambiguité morale
- Des références littéraires et théatrales pompeuses, que le spectateur a toutes les chances de ne pas connaître.

Constatant que ce type reprochait au script ce qui, précisément, faisait l'interêt de la bédé, je m'arrêtais sur sa déclaration :
"I haven't read the original comic book"

Je m'empressais de lui envoyer un mail très bref dans lequel je le quotais :
"I haven't read the original comic book" ...
... hence a perfectly stupid review
(fin du mail)

Le lendemain, le gars me répond un pavé dans lequel il dit ne pas s'étonner qu'avec des spectateurs comme moi pour les soutenir, les Wachowski puissent servir impunément leur soupe pour attardés mentaux etc.

[Superwonderscope]

En tous cas, le film est annoncé le 2 / 11 / 2005 pour une sortie France par Warner.

[Shinji]

Il y a pas mal de temps, j'étais tombé sur des photos très prometteuses, mais je ne sais pas si elles étaient tirées d'un court réalisé par des fans ou d'une adaptation avortée ? Quelqu'un a des infos ?

[Shinji]

[guncrazy]

Premiere affiche.
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Si une petite croix rouge apparait, c'est par ici http://www.comingsoon.net/cgi-bin/image ... g&img=&tt=‹

[marvin]

Des new (un tout petit peu) rassurantes sur la tournure que prend le projet.
Evidemment, cela provient d'une conférence de presse et c'est donc sujet à caution mais le film se veut extrêmemnt sérieux et proche de l'univers dépeint par alan Moore dans la BD (ex: contrairement au Judge Dredd de Stallone, le personnage de V gardera son masque tout au long du film. Oufff!). Donc wait and see mais bon, c'est confirmé, le film sortira bien le 5 novembre 2005 (soit dans 8 mois ) pour coïncider avec le centième anniversaire de Guy fawkes, personnage à l'origine du comics.

Voici quelques extraits (en anglais, sorry), l'intégralité de la transcription se trouvany sur http://www.newsarama.com.


Mr. Silver, let’s get started straight away, you’ve been working with the Wachowski Brothers on a couple of movies; how much convincing did it actually take them to get you working on V FOR VENDETTA?

JOEL SILVER: We worked on V FOR VENDETTA long before we made The Matrix. The Brothers had done a script for this project several years ago and they then jumped onto The Matrix and we did all those three movies. They came to me in the post-production of those movies, saying they’d like to revive that picture. James had worked very closely with us on The Matrix films and had directed all the advertising, publicity and promotional things we did for The Matrix, so the boys said why don’t we have James direct it. That was a great idea, so they went back to the script and re-crafted it and thought about what it would be like today, and they re-wrote it and brought it to the board and here we are today.

Q to Natalie Portman: Is this some sort of classic damsel in distress kind of a role; what kind of a woman are you playing?

NATALIE PORTMAN: Definitely not a damsel in distress. Maybe she begins as a damsel in distress, and then she sort of learns how to take matters into her own hands.

Q to Natalie Portman: Describe a little more what this movie is about and the role you play in it.

NATALIE PORTMAN: I think this film is about the power of people to play an active role when the government is not looking after the people; the people have the right to revolt, to make their minds heard, and to speak their opinions. It is about a very oppressive regime, it’s based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and very true to that spirit of the Guy Fawkes November 5th gunpowder plot. It’s all about - as I’m sure you’ll hear - governments being afraid of their people, not the people being afraid of their governments.

Q to Natalie Portman: Is your character a freedom fighter or a terrorist?

NATALIE PORTMAN: That’s one of the big questions that this film raises and sparks debate about.

Q to James McTeigue: How close to the original spirit of the comic is the film going to be; what have you kept and what have you changed?

JAMES McTEIGUE: It is very close to the themes of Alan Moore’s graphic novel, however like all great adaptations for film there are things that you have to lose and things that you keep; it runs very close to what Alan Moore wrote and what he was trying to say.

Q to Natalie Portman: Are you much of a comic fan, and if not what was the factor in accepting this role?

NATALIE PORTMAN: I am not a big comic person in general, but this film was just… I got it [the script] and I didn’t expect to leave with days and days and days of thinking about it, and thinking about all the questions it brought up: the moral issues, the philosophical issues and political issues, that you think about after you read this script. It’s an amazing character too… I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s really relevant to our times I think, although unfortunately these kinds of events repeat themselves, so it’s sort of relevant to all times I suppose.

Q to Joel Silver: This movie is one of those big special effects monsters, can you talk a little bit about numbers; how much of the money will go into special effects? I see there is a big green screen over here that makes me think we can expect a lot of CGI.

JOEL SILVER: It’s more a kind of people centered picture than The Matrix was. There are a lot of visual effects in the movie - not so much CGI - and there’s a lot of miniature work in this picture too. We’re making the movie here and in the UK; it was economically advantageous for us to do that. There are wonderful opportunities for us now to make these pictures in these kinds of locales. We’ve shot many films in Australia, which were also good to shoot there as well, but we do need the architecture in the UK and we do need exterior sets and locations here in Germany, so it’s the perfect place to make the picture. It’s not an enormously expensive movie, but it is not a low budget film either.

Q to James Purefoy: Could you explain a little bit what you are doing in this movie and is this maybe your big break as you are the main lead of the film? I was hoping you would get a main part so you could have your biggest break through yet. Is this the movie that could deliver that for you?

JAMES PUREFOY: That’s a very good question… when you’re wearing a mask, there’s going to be a very big challenge involved for me. As you can see that mask up there is the thing that I’ll be wearing all through the movie; we’ll never see my face. I think that’s something that the fans of the comic book are going to be very pleased about: you should never see the guy’s face because it makes him infinitely more mysterious. So I’m looking forward to it, I think it’s a great acting challenge.

Q to Joel Silver: The book had three stories in ten chapters and Mr. Silver you are the master of franchise movies, so will this be a one-off movie, or is this planned as being one, two, three, four, five V FOR VENDETTAS?

JOEL SILVER: This is it; this is the story. It doesn’t go past this movie, that is the intention.

Q to Natalie Portman: Evey goes through a very tough time, she is put in jail and subjected to torture, I was wondering how much of a method actress are you; will you be losing weight and shaving your head for the role?

NATALIE PORTMAN: I will be shaving my head and losing weight… not to a self endangering point, but I won’t be getting tortured at home. I will be going through a physical transformation.

Q to Joel Silver: Several movies have been made from Alan Moore’s work, but he’s been famously reluctant to get involved, and cynical about the whole process. Did you have any dialogue with Alan Moore, has he had any commentary with you about this movie, or any involvement on the actual project?

JOEL SILVER: Larry Wachowski has spoken with him and he hasn’t been very happy with some of the movies that have been made from some of his comic books. He was very excited about what Larry had to say and Larry sent the script, so we hope to see him sometime before we’re in the UK. We’d just like him to know what we’re doing and to be involved in what we’re trying to do together.

Q to Joel Silver: I have a question for Mr. Joel Silver about Alan Moore adaptations. I understand that you were also previously the producer of Watchmen, so I’d like to ask you if this is the right time to do complicated and challenging comic adaptations like V FOR VENDETTA and Watchmen; do you think post 9/11 is the perfect zeitgeist?

JOEL SILVER: I was involved with Watchmen for a while, but I am no longer involved with Watchmen. I just think that the certain matter of this project is right for now; it feels right for now, it’s a project that I think has great resonance right now. I think that the way the boys have constructed the story and they’ve crafted the characters with James and Natalie and how they’ve worked on the characters with James McTeigue the Director, it’s really the perfect time and place for this movie. Everything has just lined up great, so I’m very excited right now.

Q to Joel Silver: The original graphic novel is a very dark book, it’s not a simple pure good vs evil thing. You have fascists with homes and feelings and family, and you also have V being a terrorist and killing people, so it’s not a real simple story. How much will you have to step back from the original novel not to get an R rating for instance?

JOEL SILVER: We’re not really worried about the rating right now, we’re trying to make the best movie we can, it may be an R rating, we aren’t sure. I mean, the essence of the movie is what Natalie said, that people shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, the governments should be afraid of their people, and that’s the essence of the story and that’s what we’re going to be pursuing; that’s the story. It is a smart, intelligent piece of material but also very visual and very exciting. There is a hero and heroine and it’s really a wonderful journey that we can take with the story, and I think the audience will take the journey with us. So we’re going to venture into a magical unusual world and an unusual time and I think the movie will bode well.

Q to James Purefoy: You already said that it’s a challenging role to play V because he’s wearing a mask all the time, he is also in very good physical shape and he talks in poems and riddles all the time; how did you actually get into the vibe, into the character V, what did you do in preparation, is there anything you can do?

JAMES PUREFOY: Yes, the script is dialogue heavy really, what Joel said about it being a character based piece is absolutely true, it’s not really very effects driven in that way. He speaks a great deal, so it’s really about color of voice and the way you use the mask, and looking at Noh theatre and Kabuki theatre, and talking to mask specialists - people who know the subconscious way a mask works. There are various devices you can use to make the feelings of this man very clear to an audience. I spend a lot of time looking at myself, V, in the mirror and using different lights and different shades of light, and the way that the mask works in those different shades of light is one of the things that’s been interesting me. I fell asleep the other night with it on, which is kind of spooky because somebody called me up at about 11 o’clock and I was like… what the hell is this on my face? I was just working with it and thinking about it and I think the more I love the mask the more I’ll understand it.

Q to James McTeigue: You’re making the movie in eight months; does that put any additional pressure on you?

JAMES McTEIGUE: Yes, it does put additional pressure on, but it’s a great thing to start a movie in a year and release it within the year. There are such long gestation periods on films, and whether it’s through the process or the distribution process it’s fantastic to be able to release it within the year. The release is also for the one hundredth year anniversary of Guy Fawkes, so it seems very prescient and timely to do it, so it is really something to strive for.

[Fatalis rex]

Des photos du décor à l'arrière gout de 1984. Pour mémoire, le film est produit par les frères Wachovski, et Nathalie Portman joue le principal rôle féminin.

http://superherohype.com/news/vforvende ... hp?id=2870

[Steve Austin]

Sinon pour V, la brève de superherohype mentionne la présence au casting de Stephen Rea, ce qui est toujours sympa (je me demande si c'est lui qui joue Lewis Prothero).

C'est pas Stephen Fry plutôt ?

[Blunt]

C'est pas Stephen Fry plutôt ?

Les deux y sont en fait (Rea avait été annoncé y'a quelques temps apparemment, et Fry a été confirmé aujourd'hui, annonçant aussi la présence au casting de John Hurt).

[Steve Austin]

C'est pas Stephen Fry plutôt ?

Les deux y sont en fait (Rea avait été annoncé y'a quelques temps apparemment, et Fry a été confirmé aujourd'hui, annonçant aussi la présence au casting de John Hurt).

Beau casting jusqu'a présent.

[al]

En effet le casting est vraiment très bon jusqu'à présent et John Hurt apporte un peu de son aura de 1984 avec lui. Par contre y'a un petit truc qui me gêne dans les photos qu'on a vu ( qui m'ont quand même donné envie de me relire la BD ce que je vais faire bientôt ), donc pour les fans qui pourraient m'aider

SPOILER


Normalement le peuple ne doit pas savoir que Lewis Prothero est la voix du destin puisque les gens pensent que c'est vraiment le Destin qui leur parle, alors pourquoi ces affiches de propagande ?

[Fatalis rex]

Oui, c'est bien Nathalie Portman, sans retouche, crâne rasé.

[A]

et Hugo Weaving remplace l'acteur qui joue V.