V for Vendetta [Blu-ray]

Director: James McTeigue, Sam Raimi, Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Rupert Graves, Sinead Cusack

Overview

Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate vision of Britain in which a corrupt and abusive totalitarian government has risen to complete power. During a threatening run in with the secret police, an unassuming young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) is rescued by a vigilante named V (Hugo Weaving) -- a caped figure both articulate and skilled in combat. V embodies the principles of rebellion from an authoritarian state, donning a mask of vilified would-be terrorist of British history Guy Fawkes and leading a revolution sparked by assassination and destruction. Evey becomes his unlikely ally, newly aware of the cruelty of her own society and her role in it.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/20/2008
UPC:	0085391117018
Original Release:	2006
Rating:	R
Source:	WARNER HOME VIDEO
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:12:00
Sales rank:	1,381

Special Features

Director's notebook: Reimagining a cult classic for the 21st century; Designing the near future; Remember, remember: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder plot; England prevails: V for Vendetta and the new wave in comics; Freedom! Forever!: making V for Vendetta; Saturday Night Live digital short; Cat power montage; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Natalie Portman	Evey Hammond
Hugo Weaving	V
Stephen Rea	Finch
John Hurt	Chancellor Adam Sutler
Stephen Fry	Deitrich
Rupert Graves	Dominic
Tim Pigott-Smith	Creedy
Roger Allam	Lewis Prothero
Sinead Cusack	Delia Surridge
Natasha Wightman	Valerie
John Standing	Lilliman
Eddie Marsan	Etheridge
Clive Ashborn	Guy Fawkes
Emma Field-Rayner	Guy Fawkes Lover
Mark Phoenix	Willy Fingerman
Alister Mazzotti	Baldy Fingerman
Guy Henry	Heyer
Ian Burfield	Tweed Coat Fingerman
Ben Miles	Dascomb
Billie Cook	Little Glasses Girl
Cosima Shaw	Patricia
Megan Gay	BTN News Poppet
Roderick Culver	BTN News Poppet
Tara Hacking	Vicky
Andy Rashleigh	Fred
Chad Stahelski	Storm Saxon
Antje Rau	Laser Lass
Imogen Poots	Young Valerie
Amelda Brown	Wardrobe Mistress,Three Waters News Poppet
Patricia Gannon	Little Glasses Girl Mum
Simon Holmes	Barman
Charles Cork	Barfly
Oliver Bradshaw	Old Man
Jack Schouten	Middle Class Boy
Caoimhe Murdock	Middle Class Sister
Juliet Howland	Middle Class Mum
Brin Rosser	TV Executive
Raife Patrick Burchell	Studio Technician
Tobey Maguire	Actor
Willem Dafoe	Actor
Kirsten Dunst	Actor
Cliff Robertson	Actor
Jack Betts	Actor
Stanley Anderson	Actor
Bill Nunn	Actor
Ron Perkins	Actor
J.K. Simmons	Actor
Gerry Becker	Actor
Rosemary Harris	Actor
K.K. Dodds	Actor
Joe Manganiello	Actor
Michael Papajohn	Actor
Roger Allan	Lewis Prothero
Drama	Actor
Richard Campbell	Security Guard
Mark Longhurst	Little Glasses Girl Dad
John Ringham	Old Man
Joseph Rye	Jones
Adrian Finighan	News Anchor
Malcolm Sinclair	Major Wilson
Bradley Ford	Evey's Brother
Madeleine Rakic-Platt	Young Evey
Selina Giles	Evey's Mother
Carsten Hayes	Evey's Father
Derek Hutchinson	Bureaucrat
Martin Savage	Denis
Grant Burgin	Operator
Gregory Donaldson	Operator
Jason Griffiths	Biology Teacher
Laura Greenwood	Sarah
Kyra Meyer	Christina
Paul Antony-Barber	Valerie's Father
Anna Farnworth	Valerie's Mother
Mary Stockley	Ruth
Simon Newby	Tube Station News Poppet
David Merheb	Young Man
Daniel Donaldson	Young Black Detainee
Dulcie Smart	Civil War News Poppet
Ben Posener	Water Shortage News Poppet
Ian Dickinson	Avian Flu News Poppet
Sophia New	Quarantine News Poppet
Gerard Gilroy	Surveillance Man
Eamon Geoghegan	Surveillance Man
Matthew Bates	Finch's Fedco Man
David Leitch	Convenience Store V
Matt Wilkinson	Little Glasses Girl Fingerman
Martin McGlade	Victoria Station Fingerman
Richard Laing	Parliament Lieutenant
Michael Simkins	Parliament General
William Tapley	Radio Man
Benjamin Wallfisch	Conductor
Tim Piggott-Smith	Actor
Dario Marianelli	Composer

Technical Credits

Larry Wachowski

David Koepp

Larry Wachowski	Producer,Screenwriter,Producer,Screenwriter
Joel Silver	Producer
Grant Hill	Producer
Alex Day	Special Effects
Muriel Gerard	Special Effects
Dan Glass	Special Effects
Benjamin Waisbren	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer
Hugo Adams	Sound Effects
David Koepp	Screenwriter
Ian Bryce	Producer
Roberto Malerba	Producer
Henning Molfenter	Producer
Lorne Orleans	Producer
Charlie Woebcken	Producer,Executive Producer
Niv Adiri	Sound Effects
Mark Appleby	Sound Effects
Manfred Banach	Sound Effects
Wolfgang Stegemann	Stunts
Martin Goeres	Stunts
Jessica Alan	Producer
Simon Quinn	Special Effects
Vladimir Vilanov	Stunts
Matthias Gunther	Stunts
Cyrille Hertel	Stunts
Heiko Kiesow	Stunts
Michael Gast	Stunts
Thorsten Gliewe	Stunts
Uwe G?sche	Stunts
Alexander Hardt	Stunts
Udo L?ttich	Stunts
Alexandra Nazahn	Stunts
Markus Papiernek	Stunts
Andreas Schulz	Stunts
Steven Thiede	Stunts
Oliver Wiesner	Stunts
Dieter B?hr	Key Grip
Annette Borgmann	Casting
Katrin Schaake	Stunts
Rob Inch	Stunts
David Cronnelly	Stunts
Wolfgang Lindner	Stunts
Eunice Huthart	Stunts
Stuart Clark	Stunts
Oliver Fritsche	Stunts
Siegfried Gordes	Stunts
Tomas Jester	Stunts
Mathis Landwehr	Stunts
Christian Peterson	Stunts
Armin Sauer	Stunts
Andreas Tietz	Stunts
Heiko Jorke	Key Grip
Rainer Werner	Stunts
Thierry Saelens	Stunts
Talila Craig	Stunts
Andy Smart	Stunts
James O'Dee	Stunts
Daniel Bohn	Stunts
Nicolas de Pruyssenaere	Stunts
Eduart Geber	Stunts
Sascha Girndt	Stunts
Udo Harnach	Stunts
Thorsten Papst	Stunts
Katja Richter	Stunts
Bernhard Schirmer	Stunts
Rene Schobess	Stunts
Ralph Tillman	Stunts
David Lietch	Stunts
Lucinda Syson	Casting
Mark Southworth	Stunts
Adam Kirley	Stunts
Jan B?hme	Stunts
Michael Bornh?tter	Stunts
Yvonne Dietzel	Stunts
Martin G?res	Stunts
Wanja G?tz	Stunts
Timo Honsa	Stunts
Stefan Langel	Stunts
Mike Luft	Stunts
Jason Oettle	Stunts
Swen Raschka	Stunts
Matthias Schendel	Stunts
Babette Schimanek	Stunts
Karsten Schmidt	Stunts
Matthew Stirling	Stunts
Tom Sayers	Sound/Sound Designer
Reelsound	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Despite some heavy-handed allegory, this melding of action film and political thriller succeeds marvelously as rousing entertainment. It begins in an England of the near future, where a dictatorial Grand Chancellor (John Hurt) wields supreme power and enforces his self-made laws with the aid of secret police. He is opposed by a mysterious avenger calling himself "V" (Hugo Weaving). Wrapped in a cloak and wearing a mask of Guy Fawkes -- an Englishman who plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in the early 1600s -- V uses terrorist tactics against the Chancellor, who assigns a dogged police inspector (Stephen Rea) to run the miscreant to ground. Enter Evey Hammond (Natalie Portman), a young woman mistakenly identified as V's accomplice after he rescues her from some government thugs. Much more intricate and character-driven than the average popcorn movie, V for Vendetta boasts a superior script by brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski (of The Matrix fame), based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore. James McTeigue's direction is unusually well modulated; he eschews the overuse of fancy camera moves and showy special effects in favor of shrewd story development. He also shows restraint in the handling of his principal characters. Daring, flamboyant, and stylish, V for Vendetta is the very model of a suspenseful action movie that takes itself seriously without surrendering the obvious entertainment value that makes it so irresistible.