Sequel to 300 on the way

[Mistwell]

I think this is great news.

Miller hasn't lost it in my opinion - wanting to work on something that is both artistically rewarding while also popular and financially rewarding is not an illegitimate pursuit.

And while everyone is entitled to their opinion, I think some of the negative views of 300 expressed here are in the incredibly small minority of folks who saw the film. For an overwhelming majority, it was a great film that did new things with cinema that is still reverberating (in a good way) through the industry.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I LOVED 300. Both the comic and the movie.

But Frank Miller has a way of either writing things that are wonderful or just...well, awful. I've not found much middle ground with his work, and the idea to make a sequel to 300, in comic OR movie form, just seems...off.

Sure, it might work, I'm not willing to write things off sight unseen like that, but still. A sequel to a story about every character dying. Where do you go from there? Or, rather, where do you NEED to go from there?

 

[Relique du Madde]

Wait, you mean 305 Spartains wasn't the sequal?

 

[David Howery]

maybe the sequel will be about the battle of Plataea, and will be called "40,000" (or however many Greeks were there)......

 

[Alzrius]

I loved 300, but I'm nervous about a sequel. The whole point of the movie was that we knew how it'd end - that's what made it so epic. Adding more undercuts that, meaning that a sequel is going to be very difficult to do well.

My thought it that this might be a prequel, about the Battle of Marathon, where Darius (Xerxes' father) tried to invade Greece. Of course, if that's the case then this could very well be the same movie all over again.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

As a woman, I am incredibly excited to read this news.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

As a woman, I am incredibly excited to read this news.

Yup, if it were all females dressed like that, it'd be considered porn and there'd be lots of angry groups complaining about how it objectifies the actors.

Can't really say I'm surprised. Any movie that earns so much more than its budget can get a sequel, and since plot and making sense wasn't important to begin with, the sequal really has no limitations. Maybe they'll take the fight to outerspace. If loincloths can protect you from spears, why not an icy vacuum?

 

[Dog Moon]

Maybe it's the original 300 and they're back as ZOMBIES!!!

 

[Felon]

I think this is great news.

Miller hasn't lost it in my opinion - wanting to work on something that is both artistically rewarding while also popular and financially rewarding is not an illegitimate pursuit.

And while everyone is entitled to their opinion, I think some of the negative views of 300 expressed here are in the incredibly small minority of folks who saw the film. For an overwhelming majority, it was a great film that did new things with cinema that is still reverberating (in a good way) through the industry.

"Incredibly small majority"? "Overwhelming majority"? Oh, Mist, please don't ever change.

I loved The 300, though it was pretty obvious that the muscles we were looking at were not amassed in an FDA-approved manner. Nonetheless, I'm happy to see R-rated action films eke out an existence. Having said that, I don't know anyone who felt that the movie changed cinema in any meaningful way.

And does 300 really cry out for a sequel? All signs point to no.

 

[Darth Shoju]

Having said that, I don't know anyone who felt that the movie changed cinema in any meaningful way.

I think from a technical standpoint, it went to show that a movie filmed entirely in front of a green screen could be successful (although Sin City probably should be given credit for breaking that ground, I think).

That, and it's making people forget that Frank Miller was also involved with Robocop II and III...