Frank Miller\'s 300 -- The Prequel

[Narukami]

No doubt this will be turned into a film and then we can discuss it in the Reference & Review section, but for now Off Topic seems best for this.

Frank Miller is busy working on a prequel to 300, focusing on Xerxes and Themistocles with Marathon as the starting point.

As comic book art this new work may indeed be noteworthy, but based upon a preview drawing it is clear that as history it will be worthless.

http://io9.com/5553000/frank-miller-ret ... ith-xerxes

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocom ... r-300.html

The gods look down and laugh ... if they bother to look down at all.

:|

Narukami

[M. Demetrius]

The gods look down and laugh

More likely, they slap their foreheads and walk away, grumbling.

[Robert Vermaat]

Frank Miller is busy working on a prequel to 300

You mean '299'?

[Narukami]

Frank Miller is busy working on a prequel to 300

You mean '299'?

HA! :lol:

We should be so lucky. :o

This news has started quite a lively discussion over at iO9, but in reality, nothing is being said there that has not already been discussed here ad infinitum.

:roll:

Narukami

[ArthuroftheBritons]

Arrgggh! This is what people get hyped up about? 90% of the guys in my school believe that Spartans are the perfect warriors because of that movie! Historic nightmare. They obviously didn't do their homework before making that film.

[Dan D'Silva]

... Just please tell me he's not gonna do the same thing to Darius that he did to Xerxes. I mean, it's probably inevitable, but still.

[M. Demetrius]

Maybe he'll wear a silver-sequinned Speedo??

[hoplite14gr]

Xerxes and Themistocles command in Marathon hock:

Hmmm always suspected that this old fool Herodotus got things mixed up....too much mushrooms I suspect :mrgreen:

[Astiryu1]

Johnny Depp as Themosticles (with pirate ship)
Shaquille O'Neal as Darius (slam dunk)
:lol: :roll:

[john m roberts]

I can see the climactic battle scene:
Athenians and Persians fighting like hell.
CUT TO:
Spartans standing around by the border, looking bored, leaning on their spears.
CUT TO:
Athenians and Persians fighting like hell.
CUT TO:
Spartans yawning.
CUT TO:
Athenians and Persians fighting like hell.
CUT TO:
Spartans buffing their nails, doing one another's hair.
CUT TO:
Athenians and Persians fighting like hell.
etc.

[Astiryu1]

Cue the Epic shot of the Athenians charging down the hill at the Persian ships led by Gandalf the White on the first light of the third day... Sorry! I am mixing fantasies again. :lol:

[Justin of the New Yorkii]

Johnny Depp as Themosticles (with pirate ship)
Shaquille O'Neal as Darius (slam dunk)
:lol: :roll:

Steven Seagal as Themistocles, Jon Lovitz as Darius

[M. Demetrius]

Vin Diesel as Themistocles, Mr. Bean as Darius, and (From the Pink Panther) The Great Balls as Testicles... :lol:

[Narukami]

Zack Snyder and his team are working quickly to turn Frank Miller's new comic book -- Xerxes -- into a new film.

This from iO9:

http://io9.com/5599178/an-awesome-super ... in-chicago

Xerxes:

Zack Synder explained that his adaptation of Frank Miller's follow-up to 300 is being developed as fast as Miller can write it, and sometimes even faster:

I'm using Frank's frames to whack at this, using the same process [co-writer Kurt Johnstad] and I used when we wrote 300. Sometimes we don't have images— we're a little ahead of him right now. We have an outline, we have dialogue, it's pretty detailed. We might double back once we get the pictures to fill in if there's something cool, which there certainly will be.

And more -- Seems the battle in question is Artemisium.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Zack-Sny ... 19869.html

[size=150:1ui4ycqt]Zack Snyder Is Much Closer To Making Xerxes Than You Think[/size]
By Katey Rich: 2010-07-28 13:22:58
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It was just last week that we first learned Zack Snyder would officially be tackling Xerxes, a project based on Frank Miller's next graphic novel that's sort of a parallel story to 300, about the Battle of Artemisium happening at the same historical point as the Battle of Thermopylae seen in 300. Snyder claimed he and co-writer Kurt Johnstad had just started writing the script a week ago, but when we caught up with the director last week at Comic Con, he revealed that they've got a lot more place than you might have expected:

I'm using Frank's frames to whack at this, using the same process Kurt and I used when we wrote 300. Sometimes we don't have images-- we're a little ahead of him right now. We have an outline, we have dialogue, it's pretty detailed. We might double back once we get the pictures to fill in if there's something cool, which there certainly will be.

It might seem a little risky for Snyder and Johnstad to start putting together a script without knowing what Miller's final product will look like, but given how faithful the director was to Miller's book with 300, he's probably got a good sense of what to expect. Either way, the quick pace of developing the screenplay might indicate that Xerxes could be coming sooner than we think-- I guess we'll have to wait and see if Sucker Punch is another 300-sized hit next spring before figuring out exactly how big to expect Xerxes to be.



:?

Narukami

[Dithrambus]

:lol: :lol: :lol: Thanks guys I needed a good laugh this morning!

I agree with Stefanos, way too many mushrooms! :lol:

There seems to be some confusion as to the storyline (gee, ya think?) The first I heard was that the film would be based on the battle of Marathon, starring Xerxes? (I am laughing so hard that I can barely type :lol: :lol: ) Now it's Artemisium? :lol: :lol: Well at least he was around for that one. :lol: