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SteveIsaacs

SteveIsaacs

NEWSWIRE

Los Angeles, CA

NOV 10, 2006 07:02 PM





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.

Loiosh

Loiosh

Charleston, WV
November 2004

NOV 10, 2006 08:05 PM

God bless Frank Miller....

ObservingOne

ObservingOne

Monroe, LA
April 2006

NOV 10, 2006 08:09 PM

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

Cate

Cate

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

NOV 10, 2006 08:32 PM

damn, i love that graphic and it looks like i'ma love the movie as well. <3

katasune

katasune

Salt Lake City, UT
September 2006

NOV 10, 2006 08:36 PM

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

turin

turin

Denver, CO
October 2003

NOV 10, 2006 08:41 PM

jesus fucking christ!

Jeisan

Jeisan

San Diego, CA
OLD SKOOL

NOV 10, 2006 09:16 PM

I can't fucking wait for this movie.

zef

zef

Laurinburg, NC
July 2005

NOV 10, 2006 09:46 PM

It looks really fucking good!

zenFish

zenFish

Calgary, AB
August 2004

NOV 10, 2006 09:54 PM

damn that looks good.

what song was that being used?

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

malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

NOV 10, 2006 10:09 PM

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.)

NathanialBlood

NathanialBlood

United Kingdom
August 2006

NOV 10, 2006 10:21 PM

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

Hati

Hati

North Hollywood, CA
December 2003

NOV 10, 2006 10:24 PM

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.

jaggy

jaggy

Austin, TX
October 2003

NOV 10, 2006 11:17 PM

wow, these are magical times.

TigerAngel

TigerAngel

Aurora, CO
February 2005

NOV 11, 2006 03:08 AM

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.

TigerAngel

TigerAngel

Aurora, CO
February 2005

NOV 11, 2006 03:15 AM

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.

NathanialBlood

NathanialBlood

United Kingdom
August 2006

NOV 11, 2006 06:46 AM

I can't stop watching the trailer eeek biggrin blush

Madmagg666

Madmagg666

Miami, FL
October 2002

NOV 11, 2006 08:10 AM

I hate persians?!

Margot_Dent

Margot_Dent

Los Angeles, CA
February 2004

NOV 11, 2006 08:13 AM

TigerAngel said:
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...



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

RudieCantFail

RudieCantFail

Intercourse, PA
January 2006

NOV 11, 2006 08:42 AM

Bad.
Ass.

Morgan

Morgan

SUICIDEGIRL

Morocco

NOV 11, 2006 09:14 AM

I've given up on any dieties, Frank Miller is my new god.

Actually, it's more of a holy trinity: Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and David Lloyd.

GammaRat

GammaRat

Seattle, WA
January 2005

NOV 11, 2006 10:08 AM

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.

doolittle

doolittle

Mesa, AZ
December 2004

NOV 11, 2006 10:08 AM

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

Flux

Flux

SUICIDEGIRL

North Carolina, USA

NOV 11, 2006 10:10 AM

GammaRat said:
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.



I am totally gay for that book.

Molon labe!

FreakPirate

FreakPirate

Calgary, AB
November 2002

NOV 11, 2006 12:23 PM

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

Niobe

Niobe

Morocco
April 2003

NOV 11, 2006 12:24 PM

I can not wait for this!!! love

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