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Beloved DC Comics comic book V for Vendetta is getting another interpretation, after the iconic 2006 big-screen adaptation with Natalie Portman, Stephen Fry, and Hugo Weaving. Variety was the first to break this news in the afternoon of November 10, 2025. This is not the first time the TV industry has tried to adapt the beloved comic book.
Variety also hinted that Channel 4 attempted to adapt the British comic book a few years ago, but the series never moved ahead. Apart from that, DC tried to incorporate the Alan Moore-written storyline into the mainline universe by revealing that Pennyworth, the Batman prequel show revolving around Alfred, was also a V for Vendetta prequel.
However, even Pennyworth was cancelled before the series could set up V and the Norsefire Party (elements from the graphic novel).
Who is involved in the new V for Vendetta show?
Variety revealed that the V for Vendetta TV series would be written by Pete Jackson, with James Gunn and Peter Safran attached to serve as executive producers. As of now, none of Jackson's, Safran's, or Gunn's representatives have commented about this series. This is the third attempt to bring this beloved comic to the small screen.
But to this day, the most successful and popular version of the comic is the 2006 movie that starred Natalie Portman as Evey and Hugo Weaving as the mysterious vigilante simply named "V".
"From the Lilly & Lana Wachowski and Joel Silver, the masterminds behind The Matrix trilogy, comes another intriguing, action-packed fantasy-thriller. Great Britain has become a fascist state. Now, a shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" (Hugo Weaving) begins a violent guerrilla campaign to destroy those who have embraced totalitarianism. In his quest to liberate England from its oppressive ideological chains, "V" recruits a young woman (Natalie Portman) he's rescued from the secret police to join him on an epic adventure to execute a seemingly impossible task."
The TV series has a chance to stick to the graphic novel:
Regarded as one of the best DC movies, the movie's version of V for Vendetta is a different interpretation of the comic. The movie paints V as a revolutionary who brings down the Fascist government. But the V from the original comics is an anarchist who ultimately dies without accomplishing bringing down the Fascist Norsefire government.
The last chapter of the comic sees Evey take up V's mantle and present herself as the Guy Fawkes-inspired vigilante, hinting that she would take up her predecessor's job of dismantling the system after the death of all major Norsefire Party leaders, which plunges the UK into chaos, or as V put it, "Land of Take-What-You-Want".
Moreover, the movie's politics is also very different from the original graphic novel. Moore wrote the comic as a critique of the British Thatcherite government that was in power in the 1980s UK. Moore and illustrator David Lloyd saw the rampant conservatism of 1980s Britain and decided to set the V for Vendetta comic in the 1990s UK.
The 2006 movie, like its source material, is set a few decades after its release year. But instead of a critique of British conservatism, it is a clear rebuttal of the British administration in the US, despite being set in the United Kingdom. Alan Moore pointed this out in an early 2000s interview with MTV:
“Those words, ‘fascism’ and ‘anarchy,’ occur nowhere in the film. It’s been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country.”
More importantly, the TV series has a chance to incorporate a plotline from the comic that was cut from the movie, but is surprisingly relevant to the present day. In the comic, Adam Susan (Adam Sutler in the movie) falls in love with Fate, a computer that's used for surveillance. As generative AI start-ups promise "AI girlfriends", this weird plot point doesn't seem that weird anymore.
Is Alan Moore involved in the TV adaptation of his comic?
Simply put, no. Moore had a fallout with DC because of the rights to V for Vendetta and Watchmen. Alan Moore worked on these two comics when DC said that he and his fellow artists could own the rights to the characters they worked on after the two comics went out of print. However, DC continues to print copies of both comics to this day, ensuring that they hold the rights.
This is why Moore has openly refused royalties from DC or any of the production companies adapting his comics. Dave Gibbons, the artist who worked on the Watchmen comic, received credit on the Watchmen movie and royalties for working on the book at Moore's instance. The same applies to David Lloyd for his work on V for Vendetta.
As mentioned earlier, the TV series is still in the early stages of development, and it may languish in development hell like it did with Channel 4. Whatever the case, we may learn in the future.
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