The New York Times did a major piece on V for Vendetta on Sunday, devoting half of the front page of its Arts and Leisure section to the film being released this week. The main topic of the article, titled 'The Vendetta Behind 'V for Vendetta'' was the troubled relationship between Alan Moore and the movie adaptations of his work.
Moore has asked that his name be removed from the V for Vendetta film, a request that the producers have honored. The request was made after Joel Silver, who produced the film with the Wachowski brothers and Grant Hill, said Moore was providing feedback on the script after Moore had told him that he was uninterested in the film. In addition to asking that his name be removed from V for Vendetta, Moore also stopped doing work for Wildstorm and asked that his name be removed from the comic work that DC was keeping in print, a request that DC CEO Paul Levitz told the Times he was not inclined to honor.
The film seems destined for a relatively strong opening for a genre film with such dark subject matter and political overtones that are going to turn off some moviegoers. It's getting great reviews, including two thumbs up from Ebert and Roeper and raves from a wide range of other reviewers and tons of press coverage (see 'V for Vendetta is EW's Cover Story').
And despite the removal of Moore's credit from the film and a lot of differences between the graphic novel and the movie script, sales of the Alan Moore and David Lloyd graphic novel are already responding, with a strong likelihood that the opening of the movie will move the book close to the top of the graphic novel bestseller charts.
The article also references the next several works due out from Moore, which include Lost Girls (this summer) and the next volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (late 2006 or early 2007) from Top Shelf, and a novel, Jerusalem.