Stephen Fry described his character in the film version of the Alan Moore/David Lloyd graphic novel V FOR VENDETTA:

I’m playing the character of Gordon Deitrich, who’s a chat show host who questions the authority of the people who run Britain in this post-viral fascist state, as it were…

For anyone who is wondering what this means: Fred Abberline was not a psychic junkie in FROM HELL, and Dorian Grey was not an indestructible gunman in THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN.

I fully expect the film version of WATCHMEN to be a fucking musical.