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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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