HBO is developing a television adaptation of V for Vendetta, the dystopian comic by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, with Pete Jackson set to write and DC Studios’ James Gunn and Peter Safran among the executive producers. The project hails from Warner Bros. Television and is in early development, with no casting or timetable announced.
Industry materials identify additional executive producers as Ben Stephenson, via his UK-US label Poison Pen, and Leanne Klein of Wall to Wall Media, part of Warner Bros. Television Studios U.K., indicating the show’s development footprint spans both sides of the Atlantic under the Warner Bros. umbrella.
Jackson, a BAFTA-recognized writer best known for Channel 4’s Somewhere Boy, would bring a grounded character focus to a property long associated with large-scale political allegory. His recent recognition for writing underscores a shift at premium networks toward commissioning comic-book adaptations through established drama voices rather than spectacle-first packaging.
The source material charts an anonymous vigilante’s campaign against a fascist government in a near-future Britain, a premise that has kept the title in circulation for decades and sustained interest beyond the 2006 film version. The previous screen adaptation, released by the studio that now houses DC’s television operations, introduced the Guy Fawkes mask to a broad audience and set a template for how the story’s iconography intersects with contemporary politics. While the new series has not detailed its creative approach, the development framework suggests a return to the story’s serialized roots with latitude to expand supporting characters and plotlines.
The involvement of DC’s studio leadership aligns the project with the company’s strategy of selectively expanding marquee graphic-novel titles for television. With Warner Bros. Television steering production and UK-based partners in the mix, the show would be positioned to shoot in Britain should it move to a greenlight, keeping its setting aligned with the original work. Formal announcements about directors, episode count, or release plans have not been made.
