Zack Snyder On Board for '300' Prequel, 'Xerxes'

Did you actually think Zack Snyder wouldn't be back for the prequel to 300? He tells Hero Complex it's a go, confirming, "We closed the writing deal on Xerxes. We started writing about a week ago." Now...there is a little wiggle room on all this. Snyder is co-writing with Kurt Johnstad, with whom he developed the first movie, and he'll also direct, but is he directing? Not yet. "It's really going to depend on what the studio wants to do and what we do when we finish; I don't have a directing deal in place but we are writing it, so call it intent," Snyder said. "If there was a crime they could probably convict me." Frank Miller finally wrapped up the graphic novel component of Xerxes earlier this year, and that might have been too long, not that it necessarily could have been avoided. Still, assuming the film gets started in six to nine months, we're still nearly two years away from it, or an astounding five years from the release of 300. Could he have not made The Spirit? Well, just for its own purposes, yes. But you can't blame a guy for striking while the iron's hot. So now we're here with a story about the Battle of Marathon. "The lead character is Themistocles," said Miller upon completion of the graphic novel...The story is very different than 300 in that it involves Xerxes' search for godhood. The existence of gods are presupposed in this story and the idea is that he's well on his way to godhood by the end of the story." Snyder adds more to the backdrop:

"Themistocles is kind of the father of democracy. It's much more about these guys choosing. The Spartans are, 'We fight, we die,' so that's an easy choice for them, there's no surrender. The cool thing about Themistocles and his gang is that it's way more difficult. Things aren't as clear or unchallenged. He has to be more political to get everyone to agree. It's political, in the soap-opera sense of the word. There's a relationship with Leonidas...and...well, we'll see where it all goes."

That's a rather overt Gerard Butler reference, but Butler has been pretty consistent about not wanting to return. So, we'll see where it all goes sounds about right.

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