Matrix Prequel About Young Morpheus in the Works

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I think it’d be fair to say the 2010s haven’t been a kind decade to Warner Brothers Studios.  To be clear I’m not asking anyone to feel bad for the poor multi-million dollar corporation, it’s just a point of fact that the studio’s been struggling for blockbuster relevance for the last 6 years.  Back in the 2000s, they had big hits like The Matrix, The Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter- it was their decade.  However, ever since the last Potter film in 2011 they slipped from the top and never fully made it back.  Dark Knight Rises was a joke when it came out and hasn’t aged well, and their other attempts at superhero cinema have been very much in the same boat. 

What’s more, their Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings prequels have done nothing to take back their market share of the fantasy genre.  Truly, between the Marvel superhero movies and the Disney fairy tale blockbusters, WB has been completely replaced in the two genres it once dominated.  Now, with the decade dwindling and their options limited, WB has elected to return to their first major hit of the 2010s with a prequel to The Matrix. 

Panel Vision - V for Vendetta, book vs film

So, it’s November 5^th, Guy Fawkes day, in which we Americans celebrate this holiday we’ve generally never heard of and don’t grasp the actual meaning behind by wearing a mask we saw in a movie adapted from a comic in 2006.  All of which is my very round about way of saying that I’m going to be talking about V for Vendetta today, specifically looking at the movie adaptation compared to the Alan Moore comic book that inspired it.  These two works loom large in popular and comic book culture as landmarks of the superhero genre and with good reason as they’re both very well made and enjoyable works.  

The graphic novel comes to us from comics’ legend Alan Moore as a sort of follow-up to the mass success he’d enjoyed with Watchmen a few years prior.  Meanwhile, the film adaptation comes to us from a screenplay by the excellent Wachowskis and starred Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving.  Both works are of excellent caliber even though their actual importance and deeper themes tend to be misinterpreted by their very large fan bases, a fact that’s actually quite impressive given how monumentally different both stories actually are.