V for Vendetta is a 2006 US film directed by James McTeigue using a screenplay written by the Wachowski Brothers and adapted from a british comics series of the same name by Alan Moore first published episodically in 1985 in the pages of Quality Communication's "Warrior" comics and later finished as a stand alone mini-series published by DC comics. The movie centers on the action of "V", an anonymous anarchist terrorist trying to bring down the Norsefire Party, a fascistic totalitarian party ruling Great Britain in the near future.