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SG Exclusive: Video Journal from the Film 300 Hosted by Gerard Butler

MONDAY FEBRUARY 5 2007 9:00 AM

Submitted by Rahodeb. Edited By Rahodeb.

TAGS: 300, Gerard Butler, Frank Miller, Thermopylae, Sparta, Persia, Greece, Xerxes, Leonidas, Zack Snyder

I've been looking forward to the film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300 for a long time. I've probably watched the trailer for 300 about 300 times, so when Warner Brothers asked if we'd be interested in hosting an exclusive, behind-the-scenes video journal from the movie, I didn't have to give it much thought.

The film combines live action with virtual backgrounds—similar to Miller's Sin City, although the screens were green for Sin City and blue for 300. The epic graphic novel (and its movie-magic adaptation) tells the story of the Battle of Thermopylae, in which King Leonidas (played by a very ripped Gerard Butler) leads 300 Spartans in a fight to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army.

Gerard Butler hosts this behind-the-scenes video. He calls the movie a "hyper-real, beautiful, emotional world," and says that "the intensity is almost unbearable."

"It's not a documentary," says Gerard, waxing poetic. "It's a kick ass story filled with passion, politics, brutality."

A page of other 300 video journals can be found here.

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Zoetica

NEWSWIRE

Los Angeles, CA

FEB 05, 2007 09:10 AM

i can't wait to see this!

drewyoon

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

FEB 05, 2007 09:23 AM

^ seriously! I'm so excited.

NadaIV

Chicago, IL

September 2005

FEB 05, 2007 09:23 AM

yep...i got to see this, frank miller is intense...

TheG

Somerville, MA

February 2004

FEB 05, 2007 09:26 AM

Hell yeah.

Marske

Winnipeg, MB

April 2005

FEB 05, 2007 09:49 AM

Gerard Butler is lookin bad ass in this movie. they have podcasts that were done during filming that are worth checking out as well.

Kenickie

United Kingdom

August 2004

FEB 05, 2007 09:57 AM

Really looking forward to this!

geasavenger

Milwaukee, WI

May 2005

FEB 05, 2007 10:10 AM

Will be neat I hope. I was always inpired by the story of this battle when I was younger. Until i saw this...I was weary at best...amounting it to a "Alexader" type Hollywood movie I did not realize that this was a movie based on frank miller book, and not "just" another big stylized mess. So i went from avoiding it...just now...to being very interested. Was afraid...and still am that it will be on the lines of that type of movie but am interested enough to go see it now.

aeniman

Albuquerque, NM

November 2006

FEB 05, 2007 10:41 AM

This is Madness...

THIS IS SPARTA! lol

ConnorMac

Monroe, NY

January 2007

FEB 05, 2007 10:55 AM

I love movies with a storyline based on honor

"Tonight we dine in hell!"

BrotherSutek

Milford, MA

March 2004

FEB 05, 2007 11:03 AM

+++ looks like they actually did their jobs when they casted this.

callum82

Silver Spring, MD

May 2003

FEB 05, 2007 11:04 AM

I've been excited for a while about this, I hope Sin City and the 300 mark only the beginning of the most rad graphic novel adaptations we've ever seen (at least in terms of near perfect replication of each and every panel of art and dialogue). And hurray for a Scottish actor playing the lead in this movie, we can only use more of you!