V FOR VENDETTA TV Series in Development at HBO

 
"Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof."
-- V, V for Vendetta

Variety is reporting that is developing a TV series based on DC Comics' V for Vendetta, the 10-issue limited series written by Alan Moore and drawn by David Lloyd. According to their sources, Pete Jackson is attached to write the series adaptation. DC Studios' James Gunn and Peter Safran will serve as executive producers, along with Ben Stephenson via Poison Pen and Leanne Klein of Wall to Wall Media, which is part of Warner Bros. Television Studios UK. Warner Bros. Television will produce the series for HBO.

Created in 1982 by Moore and Lloyd, V for Vendetta was published originally between 1982 and 1985 in black-and-white as an ongoing serial in the British anthology Warrior. Its serialization was completed in 1988–89 in a ten-issue color limited series published by DC Comics in the United States.

The story depicts a dystopian and post-apocalyptic near-future history version of the United Kingdom in the 1990s, preceded by a nuclear war in the 1980s that devastated most of the rest of the world. The Nordic supremacist, neo-fascist, outwardly Christofascistic, and homophobic fictional political party Norsefire has exterminated its opponents in concentration camps, and now rules the country as a police state. The series follow the story's title character and protagonist, V, an anarchist revolutionary wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, as he begins an elaborate and theatrical revolutionist campaign to kill his former captors and torturers, bring down the fascist state, and convince the people to abandon fascism in favor of anarchy, while inspiring a young woman, Evey Hammond, to become his protégée.

In 2005, Warner Bros. adapted V for Vendetta as a film, directed by James McTeigue, from a screenplay by the Wachowskis. The film made $134.7 million at the box office and starred Hugo Weaving as V, Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond, Stephen Rea as Chief Inspector Eric Finch, Stephen Fry as Gordon Deitrich, and John Hurt as High Chancellor Adam Sutler.