Fw: [BAD SIGNAL]V For Fuck Off

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Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 8:51 AM
Subject: [BAD SIGNAL]V For Fuck Off

> bad signal
> WARREN ELLIS
>
> V FOR VENDETTA opened at $26
> million in America, and $8 million
> internationally. In America, that
> was a soft number, a good four
> million below their hopes, and led
> to a box office total that was some
> 9% lower than this time last year --
> and 2005 in total was some 9% lower
> than 2004. Internationally, V got
> the shit beaten out of it by Steve
> Martin fucking Peter Sellers' corpse
> in THE PINK PANTHER. The tale will
> be told on V next week, but it's not
> the launch they wanted. I wonder
> if that New York Times feature on
> Alan, in which he let rip at DC, Joel
> Silver and Hollywood in general, had
> any effect at all.
>
> The people I know who haven't read
> the book tell me they loved the film.
> I have no intention of seeing it. I
> tend to avoid films of books I love.
> Haven't even seen the FEAR AND
> LOATHING movie. Have seen about
> twenty minutes of the LEAGUE OF
> EX GENTLEMEN film on cable in
> pieces here and there. LEAGUE is
> my daughter's favourite graphic
> novel, but she doesn't want to see
> the film because she's learned it's
> not like Uncle Alan's book. She saw
> the trailer and commented in
> disgust that "that's not Miss Murray."
>
> She still sleeps with the signed
> hardback copy that Alan sent her,
> made out to "the princess of the
> night sky" (one of the meanings of
> her name) as from "your creepy
> uncle Al."
>
> The joy of a Western world living
> on internet time is that V will now
> cease to exist for most people within
> a few days, as the maw of fast
> media goes in search of something
> fresh to chew on. V, the book, is
> probably approaching a new
> saturation point -- I think half the
> people in San Francisco own a copy
> by now -- and in a few years it'll
> become one of those books ripe for
> rediscovery by a new generation,
> like Derek Raymond's A STATE OF
> DENMARK (which you should read).
>
> I imagine Alan would like that.
>
>
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