2. V For Vendetta
Sunday, January 24
Sky Cinema Sci-fi (Sky 311), 6.45pm.
V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian political action movie written by the Wachowskis starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving as V, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry and John Hurt.
V For Vendetta. Picture: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
- Credit: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
In a Britain crushed by a cruel dictator, a masked avenger enlists Natalie Portman in a fight for freedom.
The film opens with Guy Fawkes being executed in scenes filmed outside the South Front of Hatfield House.
It’s fitting as it was one of the current Lord Salisbury’s ancestors who helped to foil the real Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.
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