Alan Moore, however, distanced himself from the film sight unseen, as he has with every
screen adaptation of his works to date. He ended cooperation with his publisher, DC Comics, after its corporate parent,
Warner Bros., failed to retract statements about Moore's supposed endorsement of the movie.
[9] After reading the script, Moore remarked that his comic had been "turned into a
Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country.... [This film] is a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neoconservatives — which is not what [the comic] 'V for Vendetta' was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about [England]." He later adds that if the Wachowskis had wanted to protest what was going on in America, then they should have used a political narrative that spoke directly at America's issues, similar to what Moore had done before with Britain.
[10] The film changes the original message by arguably having changed "V" into a freedom fighter instead of an anarchist. An interview with producer
Joel Silver[11] suggests that the change may not have been conscious; he identifies the V of the graphic novel as a clear-cut "superhero...a masked avenger who pretty much saves the world," a simplification that goes against Moore's own statements about V's role in the story.
