V for Vendetta [Special Edition] [2 Discs]

Director: James McTeigue

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:	01/06/2015
UPC:	0883929453092
Original Release:	2006
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:12:00

Special Features

Disc 1: Movie -; Freedom! Forever!: making V for Vendetta; ; Disc 2: Special Features: ; Designing the near future; Remember, remember: Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot; England prevails: V for Vendetta and the new wave in comics; Cat Power montage; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Natalie Portman	Evey Hammond
Hugo Weaving	William Rookwood / V
Stephen Rea	Chief Inspector Eric Finch
Stephen Fry	Gordon Deitrich
John Hurt	Chancellor Adam Sutler
Tim Pigott-Smith	Creedy
Natasha Wightman	Valerie Page
Rupert Graves	Dominic Stone
Roger Allam	Lewis Prothero
Ben Miles	Dascomb
Eddie Marsan	Etheridge
John Standing	Bishop Lilliman
Sinéad Cusack	Delia Surridge
Imogen Poots	Young Valerie Page
Clive Ashborn	Guy Fawkes
Ian Burfield	Tweed Coat Fingerman
Mark Phoenix	Willy Fingerman
Billie Cook	Little Glasses Girl,Soldier (uncredited)
Guy Henry	Heyer
Cosima Shaw	Patricia
Andy Rashleigh	Fred
Amelda Brown	Wardrobe Mistress,Three Waters News Poppet
Megan Gay	BTN News Poppet
Charles Cork	Barfly
Roderic Culver	BTN News Poppet
Oliver Bradshaw	Old Man
Juliet Howland	Middle Class Mum
Madeleine Rakic-Platt	Young Evey
Richard Campbell	Security Guard,Security Guard
Carsten Hayes	Evey's Father
Mark Longhurst	Little Glasses Girl Dad,Little Glasses Girl Dad
Derek Hutchinson	Bureaucrat
John Ringham	Old Man,Old Man
Martin Savage	Denis
Grant Burgin	Operator
Greg Donaldson	Operator,Operator
Jason Griffiths	Biology Teacher
Joseph Rye	Jones
Laura Greenwood	Sarah
Malcolm Sinclair	Major Wilson
Paul Antony-Barber	Valerie's Father
Anna Farnworth	Valerie's Mother
Selina Giles	Evey's Mother,Evey's Mother
Simon Newby	Tube Station News Poppet
David Merheb	Young Man
Dulcie Smart	Civil War News Poppet
Ben Posener	Water Shortage News Poppet
Ian T. Dickinson	Avian Flu News Poppet
Eamon Geoghegan	Surveillance Man
Martin McGlade	Victoria Station Fingerman
Richard Laing	Parliament Lieutenant
William Tapley	Radio Man
Mary Stockley	Ruth
Norman Campbell Rees	V Follower (uncredited)
Andy Callaghan	Soldier (uncredited)
João Costa Menezes	Soldier (uncredited)
Matthew Bates	Finch's Fedco Man
Matt Wilkinson	Little Glasses Girl Fingerman
Rami Hilmi	V Army Member (uncredited)
Mathis Landwehr	Bodyguard (uncredited)
Michael Simkins	Parliament General
Christopher Fosh	V Follower (uncredited)
Keith How	V Follower (uncredited)
Forbes KB	Soldier (uncredited)
Chris Wilson	Soldier (uncredited)
Adrian Finighan	News Anchor
Nicolas de Pruyssenaere	Marshal (uncredited)
Bradley Ford	Evey's Brother
Wolfgang Stegemann	Creedy Guard (uncredited)
Kyra Meyer	Christina
Daniel Donaldson	Young Black Detainee
Sophia New	Quarantine News Poppet
Gerard Gilroy	Surveillance Man
David Leitch	Convenience Store V
Benjamin Wallfisch	Conductor
Tim Piggott-Smith	Actor
Dario Marianelli	Composer

Technical Credits

Lilly Wachowski

James McTeigue	Director
Joel Silver	Producer
Lorne Orleans	Producer
Grant Hill	Producer
Lilly Wachowski	Producer,Producer,Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Roberto Malerba	Producer
Henning Molfenter	Producer
Charlie Woebcken	Producer,Executive Producer
Ben Waisbren	Executive Producer
Matthias Gunther	Stunts
Cyrille Hertel	Stunts
Heiko Kiesow	Stunts
Michael Gast	Stunts
Thorsten Gliewe	Stunts
Uwe Gösche	Stunts
Alexander Hardt	Stunts
Udo Lüttich	Stunts
Alexandra Nazahn	Stunts
Markus Papiernek	Stunts
Andreas Schulz	Stunts
Steven Thiede	Stunts
Oliver Wiesner	Stunts
Dieter Bähr	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 Böhme	Stunts
Michael Bornhütter	Stunts
Yvonne Dietzel	Stunts
Martin Göres	Stunts
Wanja Götz	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.