V For Vendetta creator Alan Moore is desperate to be disassociated from the screen adaptation of his classic comic strip and begged producers of the movie, which stars Natalie Portman (pic) and is topping the US box office, not to credit him for his work
The famous cartoonist, who also conceived From Hell and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, hates seeing his work diluted by movie-makers, and refuses to put his name to the result, or even take any money.
Moore told The Independent: " I got a phone call from one of the Wachowski brothers - either Curly or Moe - and he was saying that he was a huge fan of my work, and that he was doing this V For Vendetta film, at which point I interjected that he shouldn't take this personally, but I didn't wish to be associated with it.
"I want them to say, 'We're not going to give you any money for your work, you're not going to get any credit for it and we're not going to put your name on it.'
"To see a line of dialogue or a character that I have poured that much emotional involvement into, to see them casually travestied and watered down and distorted... it's kind of painful. It's much better just to avoid them altogether."