The testosterone-fuelled 300 drew audiences in the hundreds of thousands, and Hollywood isn’t about to pass up on following up one of its poster-boys for the highly impressionable male audiences. Rumors of a 300 sequel have been a long time in the coming, but Zack Snyder finally set everything in stone when he was out doing promotion for the upcoming Watchmen DVD and Blu-ray release.
“I know for a fact that Frank [Miller] is writing right now,” said the director. “[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.”
Snyder doesn’t expect much to change from the first film, though the budget will be kept more in check this time as they will be using the same technology.
“We’re going to see Athens and the Aegean and other places,” he detailed. “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.”
The Sin City sequel has been a long time coming, but just how long do we fans have to wait? IGN UK talked to The Spirit writer/director Frank Miller, who said that he is ready to team up with Robert Rodriguez again for Sin City 2.
“Sin City 2 is written,” he said. “It’s mainly a matter of working out the details of the production. I’m hoping to do it with Robert Rodriguez again in the same circumstances that we did the first one, and we could be shooting as soon as April.”
So there you have it! Let the countdowns begin. And if you have nothing to do in the meantime, go check out those Sin City graphic novels. They are actually pretty good.
Screenhead came across these photos of the film The Spirit, which opens this Christmas. The Spirit is a pure classic of action, adventure and romance. Frank Miller wrote and directed the film based on Will Eisner popular comic book.
The tale concerns a rookie cop who returns from the dead as The Spirit 
(Gabriel Macht) to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy, The Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) has a different idea. He wants to wipe out Spirit’s beloved city to pursue his own form of immortality. The Spirit chases this pitiless killer from Central City’s rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront… all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill the masked crusader. Encircling him at every turn are Ellen
Dolan (Sarah Paulson), the whip-smart girl-next-door; Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson), a punk secretary and frigid vixen; Plaster of Paris (Paz Vega), a murderous French nightclub dancer; Lorelei (Jaime King), a phantom siren; and Morgenstern (Stana Katic), a sexy young cop.
Oh yes… there’s Sand Saref (Eva Mendes), the jewel thief with dangerous curves. She’s the love of his life turned bad.
Giving life to a bad idea, thanks to money for everyone concerned, director Zack Snyder revealed some plot details about the upcoming pre/sequel to 300.
According to Snyder, the action will take place sometime between the Battle of Thermopylae and the Battle of Plataea, with the narrator Dilios re-telling the story of King Leonidas and the Spartans to a new group of warriors at the end of the first film.
Frank Miller is reportedly working on writing and drawing the graphic novel upon which the second film will be based on. They will start adapting it to the screen once he has finished it.
In an interesting note, Snyder noted that he won’t have any input in the sequel as he wants it to be a creation entirely of Miller’s. Let’s see how that turns out.
How do you put it into words whether or not you liked the recent Frank Miller’s The Spirit trailer?
I liked the style but the story was hard to follow or understand.
Now, I am not familiar with Will Eisner’s work, but some of you are. That’s awesome because I have enjoyed your posts about The Spirit. They’ve helped me understand the story better. I am looking forward to more.
That is why I am linking this in depth article at i09 by Alex Carnevale. He goes into great detail with an analogy of Eisner’s “The Spirit” and Miller’s The Spirit. Great comic pictures, too.
Some of the movie websites have been discussing Frank Miller’s The Spirit footage being screened at Comic-Con in San Diego late July.
Frank Miller promises to show footage of The Spirit based on, the late comic master, Will Eisner’s comic series. Even Samuel L. Jackson and Jaime King promise to make an appearance. Both star in Miller’s film.
The special screening of the footage is, of course, to create a buzz about the film, so this Christmas the movie theaters are packed to see The Spirit.
If you are in San Diego on the last weekend in July take a gander at The Spirit footage.
Following up on our previous report, Legendary Pictures has confirmed that it is developing a follow-up to 300 for Warner Bros. It also confirmed that Frank Miller is writing and Zack Snyder is intending to direct.
The first bit of info on the project came from an interview on Collider with director Snyder. Apparently Frank Miller is working on a new graphic novel that may either be a prequel or sequel to the original. They intend to see if the story is adaptable, though the studio hopes that Frank’s work is “as compelling as the first.”
Here are the next two character posters from Frank Miller’s upcoming film adaptation of The Spirit – in theaters Christmas Day 2008! These posters draw attention to the film. I love the style. This time we have Jamie King as Loreli, a murderous French nightclub dancer and Sarah Paulson as Ellen Dolan, the whip-smart girl-next-door.
I was just sent the second character poster from Frank Miller’s upcoming film adaptation of “The Spirit,” which will be in theaters Christmas Day 2008.
I don’t recognize Scarlett Johansson in this poster, but her character is Silken Floss, a punk secretary and frigid vixen.
