V for Vendetta to be released

IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures announced Thursday that “V For Vendetta,” an action-adventure from the creators of “The Matrix” trilogy, will be released to IMAX and conventional theatres on March 17, 2006.

Produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski Brothers, directed by James McTeigue and starring Natalie Portman, “V For Vendetta” will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of IMAX.

The addition of “V For Vendetta” makes IMAX's 2006 film slate stronger than any previous slate in the Company's 35-year history, with five new digitally re-mastered Hollywood films - including two in IMAX 3D - already scheduled to be released to IMAX theatres this year.

Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, “V For Vendetta” tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked vigilante known only as "V." Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression.

As Evey uncovers the truth about V's mysterious background, she also discovers the truth about herself - and emerges as his unlikely ally in the culmination of his plan to bring freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption.