300 and One? More Spartans on Horizon

Posted by Robert Fure (robert@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 11, 2008

300With 300’s epic bloodbath matched only by its own epic gross, it should come as no surprise that the studios want to get working on a sequel. Producer Mark Canton was all smiles and winks when talking about 300 and expressed a strong interest in working with director Zack Snyder again. Canton seemed to imply that all they were waiting for was the thumbs up from Warner Bros. which can’t be all that far off.

Most assuredly Frank Miller and Zack Snyder would be courted and lured back for this story or the flick would most assuredly suffer. No news on what the story would entail, what battles it would cover, or when it would take place, or with who. Sparta was a dominate player for a fairly long period of war and faced off against both the Persians and other Greek states. The sequel could chronologically move forward to either the Battle of Platea (pictured briefly at the end of the film) where the Spartans, at full force, crushed the Persians. The Spartans also played a large role in the Peloponnesian War and even went against, and defeated Athens, on land and at sea.

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  • Jason
    300 was amazing and I would love to see a longer, more epic 300 style movie.
  • I wish they'd do a take on the Odyssey. That would be EPIC.
  • ike
    what an absolutely awful idea
  • Rick Cain
    Takes all the fun out of it when Spartans fight Greeks. No more hidden racist undertones in these battles. Will the greeks now be depicted as deformed monsters too?
    BTW the Spartans eventually lost later wars and their influence withered to nothing. Its amazing how much infighting occurred on the greek peninsula.
  • Well at the end of 300 they never show how Persia actually did manage to take over parts of Greece, they make it seem like Persia pushed forward but was met with the Spartan army and were then defeated which is obviously not true.

    The main thing to note is that this is a movie, and it's fictional and dramatized. It's not so much a historical re-enactment as it is a movie loosely based on historic events. It's just for entertainment, so continuity really doesn't matter. Personally I think the Persian looked a lot cooler then the Spartans, the cosmetic/aesthetic design of the Persian army was much more interesting to me.
  • i can use some more 300 stuff ...
    but please dont make it a horrible tragedy ...
  • Epiminondas could kick Lenoidas' ass and Thebes was thrice the city state that Sparta was. Sparta was a vicious dictatorship that enslaved all they conquered and butchered Mycenian Helots for sport. Even in the 300 comic, Miller's Leonidas says "Leave democracy to the Athenians." I would like to see a countersequel that shows how Epiminondas and the Thebans anihilated Sparta's best at Leuctra, liberated all their slaves in a proto-United States Boetian League and took on all of Greece's imperialist states and won against impossible odds only to give up because their leader Epiminondas was killed in the battle. I want a movie that shows fascists being defeated by real free men who liberate rather than conquer. That would be a worthy answer to 300. And yes I loved 300 for what it was, an ahistoric comic book legend.
  • LZ
    Actually Watch TeleVision, the movie is quite accurate to the actual battle. But if you payed attention to the movie, you'll see that the account given is Captian Blindeye McGee the whole time giving a speech to the other g-string totting spartan at Platea, so he's telling a story, of something that happened a few years ago, to physc some fellas up to kill some other fellas.
  • Contraife
    "Takes all the fun out of it when Spartans fight Greeks. No more hidden racist undertones in these battles. Will the greeks now be depicted as deformed monsters too?"

    QFT. Don't forget the skinny people with British accents were "weak-looking" athenians. It would be amazing to see an Iranian version of the same kind of story XD
  • Brian
    What ever happened to making one kick ass movie and leaving it at that? Leave the 300 story line alone.
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