<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $54 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $132.5 million </Td> </Tr> <P> V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian political thriller film directed by James McTeigue and written by The Wachowski Brothers, based on the 1988 DC / Vertigo Comics limited series of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd . The film is set in an alternative future where a neo-fascist regime has subjugated the United Kingdom . Hugo Weaving portrays V, an anarchist freedom fighter who attempts to ignite a revolution through elaborate terrorist acts, and Natalie Portman plays Evey, a young, working - class woman caught up in V's mission, while Stephen Rea portrays the detective leading a desperate quest to stop V . </P> <P> The film was originally scheduled for release by Warner Bros. on Friday, November 4, 2005, (a day before the 400th Guy Fawkes Night), but was delayed; it opened on March 17, 2006, to positive reviews . Alan Moore, having been dissatisfied with the film adaptations of his other works From Hell (2001) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), declined to watch the film and asked not to be credited or paid royalties . </P>

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