Trivia

Director James McTeigue cites the film The Battle of Algiers as his principal influence in preparing to film V for Vendetta.

Writer Alan Moore Moore explicitly disassociated himself from the film due to his lack of involvement in its writing or directing. As per his wishes, Moore's name does not appear in the film's closing credits.

Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, huge fans of the original comic series, wrote a draft of the script in the '90s before they worked on The Matrix (1999), which shares several similar themes.

Natalie Portman was chosen for the role of Evey over Scarlett Johansson and Bryce Dallas Howard.

The cast and crew were only allowed to shoot near the British Parliament and the Clock Tower from midnight to 4:30 am, and they could only stop traffic for four minutes at a time.

James Purefoy was originally cast as V. He left the project because he couldn't breathe behind the Guy Fawkes mask.

The scenes in the abandoned London Underground station were filmed at Aldwych, a Piccadilly line station that closed in 1994. The branch still has tracks and electricity, meaning trains can still operate.

The domino scene, where V tips over black and red dominoes to form a giant letter V, involved 22,000 dominoes. It took 4 professional domino assemblers 200 hours to set it up.

The masks that the soldiers wear outside The Houses of Parliament are JT X-FIRE brand paintball masks.

The line about God playing dice with the universe comes from Albert Einstein's objections to quantum theory, in which he said that "At any rate, I am convinced that [God] does not play dice."

When Evey gets up from underneath the desk during V's pirate broadcast, a copy of "Watchmen", another Alan Moore comic, is on the desk in front of her.

In the original graphic novel, V's cause was anarchy, not freedom. Alan Moore was very critical of the movie for changing what he called the "anarchy vs. fascism" structure of his graphic novel into what he saw as an exploration of "American neo-liberalism vs. American neo-conservatism" that should have been set in the U.S. instead of Britain.

In the original graphic novel, the leader's name is Adam Susan, not Sutler.

The name Evey is pronounced EV, with E being the fifth letter of the alphabet, V being five in Latin and Y being the 25th letter (5 squared)

On a clock that has an hour hand and a minute hand, the time 11:05 makes a V. These two numbers, 11 and 5, where 11 is November, and 5 is the day of November, spell out: the fifth of November. "Remember, remember the 5th of November."

The original comic series was originally created by Alan Moore. However, following his negative experience with From Hell (2001) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), Moore decided to reject all money and credit from Hollywood on any adaptations of his work. Thus, he gave all the money he would've gotten to the artist who drew the character with him, and rejected his own "created by" credit from the film.

At the set of Prothero's bathroom, a collection of dolls can be seen in the background. This is a reference to the graphic novel where V burned the dolls.

When V meets Creedy, he says, "Penny for the Guy." In England, children ask for money to buy fireworks around November 5th, "Guy Fawkes Day." On that day, children make a Guy Fawkes mannequin to be burned on a bonfire in the evening, amid fireworks.