Britain is ruled by a man named Sutler, who gives orders to his underlings from a wall-sized TV screen and seems the personification of Big Brother. V seems more like Jack the Ripper, given his ability to move boldly in and out of areas the police think they control. This movie is more literary and less dominated by special effects although there are plenty , and is filled with ideas that are all the more intriguing because we can't pin down the message.
Is this movie a parable about , a cautionary tale or a pure fantasy? It can be read many ways, as I will no doubt learn in endless e-mails. V and the Phantom are both masked, move through subterranean spaces, control others through the leverage of their imaginations and have a score to settle. One difference, and it is an important one, is that V's facial disguise does not move unlike, say, the faces of a Batman villain but is a mask that always has the same smiling expression.
Behind it is the actor Hugo Weaving , using his voice and body language to create a character, but I was reminded of my problem with Thomas the Tank Engine: If something talks, its lips should move. In addition to Hurt as the sinister dictator, we see Stephen Rea and Rupert Graves as the police assigned to lead the search for V.
Tim Pigott-Smith is an instrument of the dictator. These people exist in scenes designed to portray them as secure, until V sweeps in like a whirlwind, using martial arts, ingenious weapons and the element of surprise. Why the mask does not limit his peripheral vision is a question I will leave for the experts. There are ideas in this film. Governments should be afraid of their people. Fear in either direction must lead to violence. But V has a totalitarian state to overthrow, and only a year to do it in, and we watch as he improvises a revolution.
He gets little support, although Stephen Fry plays a dissident TV host who criticizes the government at his peril. With most action thrillers based on graphic novels, we simply watch the sound and light show. As Brainiac is one of Superman's greatest villains and is one iconic DC Comics character who has never appeared on the big screen, he certainly feels like he would have been a good fit for Superman Returns 2.
It could be that in the movie, he would have set his sights on Earth, or possibly even New Krypton. Superman Returns 2 was originally scheduled for a release, with Bryan Singer expected to return as director. Dougherty was to write the script. As time passed and no developments were made, Singer and others moved on from the project.
But why did Warner Bros. After all, their intention was to breathe life into the Superman franchise with a new series of movies. The explanation may be related, at least in part, to its box office performance.
The movie did receive positive reviews, but that wasn't enough. At that point though, a sequel was still being planned. So though its numbers may have lessened the studio's enthusiasm for a second movie, it couldn't have been the only reason why it was never developed. According to Routh, one of the reasons why Superman Returns 2 never moved forward was the situation at Warner Bros.
Routh says that " there was a lot of change happening over at Warner Bros. The writer's strike that went on from to may also have been an issue that slowed things down. Essentially, it was a combination of factors that kept Superman Returns 2 from ever seeing the light of day. He has a degree in journalism from the University of Montevallo, and is the author of the psychological thriller and time travel novel, "A Man Against the World.
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