Zack Snyder’s “300” may be getting a full three-dimensional treatment for re-release in theaters. Warner Bros presented Snyder with a conversion of a snippet of the 2007 film as a way to convince him to film his animated feature “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” in 3D and it looks like the entire “300” may be making the conversion. Snyder says:
“I had a bunch of meetings and basically, what convinced me was that they actually did a conversion of ‘300’. Not the whole thing. I haven’t seen the whole movie but they’re talking about doing the whole movie.”
“I saw maybe like a ten-minute section that they’d just done. By the way, they did an amazing job. The way we shot it actually, it’s almost like a 3-D movie anyway, so it really lends itself to that. There is a difference.”
Snyder will be tackling “Xerxes”, the prequel to “300” after “Sucker Punch”:
“After “Sucker Punch,” I’m waiting on Frank (Miller) for the sequel to ‘300’.And there’s a really good chance that will be the thing we do. He’s been working hard, yup, he absolutely has so he’s supposed to show me something really soon, actually in the next few months, he’s going to show me something. That would be the next thing.”
This prequel centering on the “300” antagonist originated from comic legend, Frank Miller, himself. Synder explains his hands-off approach to Miller’s writing of “Xerxes”:
“That’s all Frank. There was a big discussion about what we would do for the sequel to “300” and I said, “I didn’t tell Frank what to write the first time, and I’m not telling him what to write this time.” I’ll take it and I’ll adapt it and make it into a movie and I’ll write a screenplay, but I want him to do whatever he thinks.”
“I don’t want to hear anything about it. They keep wanting to show it to me, and I’m like, “I don’t want to hear about it!” I just want to let Frank do his thing. (laughs) Why do you guys want to mess with him? It’s like crazy… it’s like if you hired an awesome painter (to paint something), you wouldn’t sit over his shoulder and go, “You know, a little more red would be good there. It’s cool if this landscape had more flowers.”
[Source] ComingSoon
