Variety reports that Garden State and Star Wars star Natalie Portman is in final talks to star in V is for Vendetta. The picture will be produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski Brothers, who also co-wrote the screenplay. James McTeigue, the first assistant director on the Matrix films, will be making his directorial debut. The project will eventually be distributed by Warner Bros.
V will be based on the Alan Moore graphic novel of the same name and tells the story of “an alternate future in which Germany wins WWII and Great Britain becomes a fascist state. A terrorist freedom fighter known only as ‘V’ begins a violent guerilla campaign to destroy those who’ve succumbed to totalitarianism, and recruits a young woman he’s rescued from the secret police to join him.”
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