History Trivia / VForVendetta

* ActingForTwo:
** Creator/JohnHurt plays Adam Sutler and one of the old folks watching Gordon Dietrich's show.

* TheRedStapler: Demands for Guy Fawkes masks for Halloween skyrocketed after the film came out. The movie was also what standardized the Guy Fawkes mask, which were typically home made before its release.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://vforvendetta.wikia.com/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_Wiki The V for Vendetta Wiki]].

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Creator/JohnHurt, who played an oppressed victim of a dystopian Britain in the movie adaptation of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', plays Sutler, the ruler of a dystopian Britain, here.

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/JamesMcTeigue first met Creator/NataliePortman while working as an assistant director on ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', while Creator/HugoWeaving had worked with Creator/TheWachowskis and Joel Silver on ''Franchise/TheMatrix''.

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* {{Defictionalization}}: Anonymous has adopted the Guy Fawkes motif for its protests, which apparently tickles Creator/AlanMoore enough that he's only a little annoyed that this is inspired by the movie, rather than the book. [[{{Irony}} Hilariously, the spike in sales of Guy Fawkes masks has been quite profitable for Time Warner]].

* ExecutiveMeddling: It apparently spawned the title itself. While the movie was being made, someone thought it would be a good idea to outright lie and say that Creator/AlanMoore completely supported the movie. He didn't, and made that fact known by refusing any payment what-so-ever on every movie adaptation of his work afterwards, and getting his name removed from them. Good job, Joel!

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Reports indicated that the release date change was due to the 7/7 London train bombings, with the filmmakers denying that was the case, as they needed more time on visual effects production, as mentioned below.

** Development began in 1988 when Joel Silver bought the rights to the graphic novel, as well as ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. Following the success of ''Film/RoadHouse'', Hilary Henkin wrote an adaptation that was singled out as one of Hollywood's best unproduced scripts in a 1993 ''Los Angeles Times article'. Her script was described as a "wild, over-the-top saga", and a cross between ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' and ''Film/AClockworkOrange''. It bears little, if any, relation to the finished product, with the inclusion of overtly satirical and surrealistic elements not present in the graphic novel, as well as the removal of much of the novel's ambiguity, especially in regard to V's identity.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/AlanMoore drew upon a comic strip idea submission that the DC Thomson scriptwriting competition rejected in 1975. "The Doll" involved a transsexual terrorist in white face makeup who fought a totalitarian state during the 1980s.

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* ImageSource:
** OnlyKnownByTheirNickname

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Plans to adapt the comic started in 1988. At one stage, Creator/KennethBranagh was attached.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Hilary Henkin wrote an early adaptation of the graphic novel, which was singled out as one of Hollywood's best unproduced scripts in a 1993 Los Angeles Times article. Her script was described as a "wild, over-the-top saga", and a cross between ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' and ''Film/AClockworkOrange''. It bears little, if any, relation to the finished product, with the inclusion of overtly satirical and surrealistic elements not present in the graphic novel, as well as the removal of much of the novel's ambiguity, especially in regard to V's identity.
** Creator/BryceDallasHoward, Creator/ScarlettJohansson, and Creator/KeiraKnightley auditioned for Evey Hammond.

** In addition to playing V, Creator/HugoWeaving also appears in one scene as the Little Glasses Girl's father.
** What, no he doesn't, that actor looks nothing like Weaving.

* InspirationForTheWork: Creator/AlanMoore wrote the comic in response to UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher being elected Prime Minister for a third term and wondering what it would take to push Britain into Germany of the 1930s.

** In addition to playing V, Hugo Weaving also appears in one scene as the Little Glasses Girl's father.
** What, no he doesn’t, that actor looks nothing like Weaving.
** John Hurt plays Adam Sutler and one of the old folks watching Gordon Dietrich's show.

* FakeBrit: Both Creator/NataliePortman (Israeli-American) and Creator/HugoWeaving (Australian). However, given V's cloudy backstory and the xenophobia of the government, V may not have been a native Brit himself. Considering Weaving actually spent a good portion of his childhood and teens living in the UK, his FakeBrit status is debatable.

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