NEWS: Movie Preview: Bringing Frank Miller\'s \"300\" to Life

CULTURE: Movie Preview: Bringing Frank Miller's "300" to Life

Coming early next year is 300, the film adaptation of comics legend Frank Miller's graphic novel retelling the bloody Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartan soldiers died fighting King Xerxes' massive Persian army, becoming legends in the process.



The film's director, Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead), employed the Sin City shot-for-shot technique so the film's look follows almost exactly the panels as they appeared in the original graphic novel. Snyder also shot the film using a "digital backlot", where all scenes with actors were shot before a blue screen, with digital artists then creating all the sets and effects in post-production.



Snyder's next assignment is to helm possibly the most difficult comics adaptation yet, Alan Moore's masterpiece The Watchmen, which has been in development purgatory for over a decade, and is widely thought to be the greatest achievement in the medium of comics storytelling.



300 stars Gerard Butler (The Phantom of the Opera), and Lena Headey (The Brothers Grimm), and will be released March 9, 2007.



Check out the Hi Quality Quicktime trailer here. Let's not even bother with the YouTube version for this one.

God bless Frank Miller....

I'd say that looks cool, but that would be an incredible understatement. Wow.

Anytime you can combine Greek epics with Nine Inch Nails is fantastic.

jesus fucking christ!

I can't fucking wait for this movie.

It looks really fucking good!

damn that looks good.

what song was that being used?

Nine Inch Nails "the Fragile" instrumental of "just like you imagined"

Honestly, I didn't much care for the trailer. We'll see what the movie's like, though.

(I thought it was way too horribly exaggerated. Trying to look cool, but failing. But those *were* pretty brief snippets. Possibly they look better in context.)

OMFG I now know why I had 50 people in Bookthrift run up to me and ask if I had seen the trailer yet.
and now I need to go take a shower because I'm messy

I actually saw some of this on a big screen recently, and some guys working on it said they are going for a Nine Inch Nails kind of history.

wow, these are magical times.

I seriously can't fucking wait. I just...can't...WAIT!! Gah!

Oh and HOLY SHIT they are gonna do an adaptation of Watchmen??? Oh man....

*prays* Please don't let them fuck it up...please don't let them fuck it up...

EDIT:

Ok so yeah, Snyder is being attached to Watchmen (currently scripting) AND, get this, Rainbow-fucking-Six though it says that "Paramount has put the production into turnaround, while they decide the direction of future Clancy films." Hmph. Interesting.

Well I am incredibly happy because I just saw that David Wenham is portraying Dilios. I love that man. He was the only thing that could be classified as "good" in Van Helsing.

I can't stop watching the trailer

I hate persians?!

i really dont see a possibility of anyone ever making a GOOD watchmen movie.

Bad.
Ass.

I'm not sure if I should really do this but...

Read the Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. It's a fairly accurate (as far as we know) account of the battle of Thermopylae (same subject as the film). It might spoil the film a little but it drives home the point these people were realy, really bad-ass.

holy shit, this is the first i heard of this coming out, but i am all sorts of excited for it now!!

I have a massive historical boner right now. I must see this.

I can not wait for this!!!