{"id":2333947,"date":"2026-03-17T22:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2333947"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:58:11","slug":"v-for-vendetta-at-20-director-james-mcteigue-isnt-surprised-the-film-feels-like-it-was-made-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/v-for-vendetta-at-20-director-james-mcteigue-isnt-surprised-the-film-feels-like-it-was-made-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018V for Vendetta\u2019 at 20: Director James McTeigue Isn\u2019t Surprised the Film Feels Like It Was Made Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0574625\/\">James McTeigue<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0434409\/\">V for Vendetta<\/a> plays like it was ripped from yesterday\u2019s headlines, not just those of twenty years ago. It\u2019s a reminder of why the adage of \u201chistory repeats itself\u201d is so prevalent.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the efforts of Evey Hammond (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000204\/\">Natalie Portman<\/a>) and the Guy Fawkes-masked vigilante known as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6229009\/\">V<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0915989\/\">Hugo Weaving<\/a>) to dismantle the totalitarian police state in a near-future United Kingdom were actually based on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0600872\/\">Alan Moore<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0515953\/\">David Lloyd<\/a>\u2019s serialized graphic novel from the 1980s. Thus, the historical echoes go well beyond the film\u2019s creative springboard of the 2000s, specifically the Bush-Cheney administration.<\/p>\n<p>As a student of history, McTeigue remains unsurprised by the relevance of his feature directorial debut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just keep falling into the same political cycles, and that\u2019s what makes the film timeless in a way. People can just look around and see that the parallels in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James McTeigue\u2019s V for Vendetta plays like it was ripped from yesterday\u2019s headlines, not just those of twenty years ago. It\u2019s a reminder of why the adage of \u201chistory repeats itself\u201d is so prevalent. Of course, the efforts of Evey Hammond (Natalie Portman) and the Guy Fawkes-masked vigilante known as V (Hugo Weaving) to dismantle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2333948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2333947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018V-for-Vendetta-at-20-Director-James-McTeigue-Isnt-Surprised.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333949,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333947\/revisions\/2333949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2333948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}