Taking advantage of the traffic spike to see if I can get more information/attention on this:
Though the new movie is the first time a major studio has made a movie of
V for Vendetta, it's not the first time
V was put to film. Way back in 1984, a student film was made, roughly eight minutes long. The film was made by Mark Tinkler at Middlesex Polytechnic, and blended art with live-action sequences. It wasn't a full-story adaptation--the movie was only a few scenes from the comic which wasn't even completed at the time. It did utilize the music from David J's
V for Vendetta EP. (which you can read more about
here.)
If anybody has more information about this piece--or even better, in this day of broadband and YouTube, a copy of the film--then by all means send me a line at
vendetta@shadowgalaxy.net. I'd love to add as much information about this film when I revise my Movie section.