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02Oct2008

Zack Snyder Has Details on '300' Sequel

DateThursday, October 2, 2008 at 9:53AM
There will very likely be another 300 movie. Talk has been building for the past year-and-a-half about where Frank Miller and director Zack Snyder would take the story, and IESB has learned that it will evidently be a sequel and not a prequel.

Speaking to Snyder at a Watchmen event in Los Angeles yesterday, IESB asked about 300, and Snyder said he would wait for Miller to write the graphic novel and that he won't personally have any input to the finished product. Once the graphic novel is complete, Snyder will direct the follow-up, and work on the screenplay adaptation, as well.

Snyder also says the film will take place during the year after the Battle of Thermopylae that is featured in 300 and the Battle of Plataea, which is where the reconstituted forces at the end of the film stand ready for battle as they listen to Dilios narrates the story of King Leonidas.

Curiously, IESB is still too cautious to say it's a sequel, and uses the "sequel/prequel" designation. Unless that year in between the two battles is merely one of several options, then this has all the markings of a sequel. And frankly, even though I had previously preferred a prequel, I like the idea of rebuilding the army and reestablishing Spartan pride and honor and all that.

It sounds like we're still quite a ways away from the second film, no matter what form it takes. Miller has The Spirit he's finishing up, and then we're supposed to finally get around to Sin City 2. Supposing we take a year for that and then Miller begins working on 301 or whatever it'll be called (My guess would be 300: Battle of ...), then we're two years away from production, give or take. So if I were a gambling man, I'd say March 2011. Could be late 2010 depending on how fast they work, but that'd be the earliest.

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AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment1 Comment |

Reader Comments (1)

wow how exciting! if the first is anything to go by, we're in for a real treat. too bad we have to wait so long...but there's always sin city 2 to look forward to before this.

Saturday, October 4, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterjamie herrick

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