Oh awesome.. They're making a movie called 300, based on a Frank Miller graphic novel, about The Battle of Thermopylae. The director (Zach Snyder, whose only credit is the Dawn of the Dead remake) is taking a bit of a Sin City approach to it, but not quite as extreme. He's got sets, but also tons of green screen. Check out this concept art page with some more comparisons of the graphic novel and before-and-after compositing.
The Battle of Thermopylae is one of the earliest and most amazing "last stand" stories in Western history. In 480 B.C., 300 Spartans and a few thousand other Greek soldiers defended a mountain pass against Persian Army that was some 200,000 strong. The Spartans knew they had no chance of winning, but they had to stall long enough to allow the Greeks to evacuate Athens and regroup their forces. Even after their leader Leonidas was killed, they circled around his body to defend it. Eventually, the Persians fell back, and the remaining Spartans were killed with spears and arrows, but only after taking some 30,000 Persians down with them.
This is going to make an awesome movie.
(Sorry, SSR! I'm being very un-Quaker-like and glorifying war, I know. But I guess I have a "last stand" fetish. :P)
(And yes, I named this post after a computer game level, but hey, someone else named a whole freaking company after that level! So there you go.)
Comments (2)
darn it
all the good movies are being made or redone
they have like 4 or 5 of these based on that battle
i hope they record historical accuracy.
I wanted to make a redo of troy
but nah it was done
then another one on this
charge of the light brigade, did they do that one already?
Posted by badxmaru | December 26, 2005
badxmaru, if you read the reviews for the graphic novel, you'll see that this version eschews historical accuracy in favor of telling an exciting story. So don't get your hopes up. :)
Posted by ToastyKen | December 29, 2005