“300 2″: Zack Snyder Talks Sequel

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I don’t know which is my favorite title for the proposed sequel to “300.” Should it b “300 x 2″? “300 2″? or just “600?” Whichever, ComingSoon got a chance to talk to Zack Snyder about the follow-up film at an event for the release of “Watchmen” and “300″ Blu-rays.

“I know for a fact that Frank [Miller] is writing right now,” says Snyder, who explains that the plan is for Miller to create the story as a comic book first, “[He's] drawing away and seems to be knee-deep in it. I think he’s going to head back to Greece again and do another reconnaissance.”

Hey, Mr. Miller…need an assistant?

Despite the usual “bigger and more money” aesthetic that usually gets applied to sequels, Snyder wants this movie to have the same look as “300.”

“I think we would use the same technology… I don’t want it to look too Star Wars-ian… Just from what [Miller] told me, it would be bigger as far as landscape and terrain. We’re going to see Athens and the Aegean and other places. There would be an opportunity for bigger visions, though I’d hope for the same aesthetic. The tech we used for ’300′ was not a revolution. It’s basically what the weatherman has. Look, instead of Accuweather it’s Sparta… It’s going to be the same way, but on crazier steroids.”

Can we combine the two, Accuweather and a movie about war in classical-era Greece? Like maybe cut occasionally to a weather forecaster putting up maps with little clouds and suns on it and discussing how that will affect the hoplites’ progress? That would be really helpful.