Frank Miller prepping "sequel" (different greek story) to 300

[Avellon]

News here.

Apparently Miller is working on another greek history inspired story. This could be interesting, thought I'm not sure what could be more awesome than the 300 story.

Whatever the case, I'm all for more movies in the style of "300." Hollywood could only be made better because of it.

[Faille]

That period of time has so much potential for great movies, which is why there's already been a ton!

[Tullaeniel]

I like Frank Miller and 300 was top fucking notch. But anytime a blockbuster is made and hollywood pushes for someone to top it or make a sequel 99 times out of 10 they suck monster donkey balls.

I hope Frank Miller makes more movies that are based off his work and stay true to his vision of shit instead of where the biggest stack of dollar bills will come from. "300-2: Dollars for Frank Miller" would probably be shitty.

[James]

It's Frank fucking Miller. It's not like he's going to sell out and put out some shitty ass shit.

[Lost Ranger]

Could easily just take a different battle from that same war and make it badass. Same style of fighting and filming and you have another winner imo.

[Avellon]

Do the battle of marathon and show the aftermath of the battle and watch the number of marathon runners triple in the same year. (The number of deaths due to running would also triple)

[Tabris]

Originally Posted by James

It's Frank fucking Miller. It's not like he's going to sell out and put out some shitty ass shit.

lol Robocop sequels

[James]

No idea what that is supposed to mean, since I'm fairly certain Frank Miller did not make Robocop.

[Tabris]

Originally Posted by James

No idea what that is supposed to mean, since I'm fairly certain Frank Miller did not make Robocop.

He certainly wrote Robocop 2 and 3, which were pieces of horrid shit.

[Avellon]

Actually miller wrote a first script that was re written and stuff before production by other people, not staying true to his original vision

[Vorph]

Robocop 2 and 3 are the reason why Miller told everyone from Hollywood to fuck off until Robert Rodriguez convinced him that Sin City could be done without compromising the original. There's a Robocop comic (the extreme violence/gore one on Avatar Press, not the actual movie adaptations on Dark Horse) based on his original scripts that is actually quite good, so it's not the writer who was at fault for how those movies turned out.

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that's why he retains such control over his recent movies. he's worried about more Hollywood butchery.

[Faltigoth]

The article mentions the battle of Plataea -- which would be an awesome counterpart to 300, high on action and asskicking for the Greeks.

The wiki for it claims at the end that, if the numbers/casualty claims are even close to accurate, it was one of the most one-sided battles in the history of the world; the Persian force was completely routed and the Greeks lost like a baker's dozen of men or something ridiculously small. They also claim that the Greek force was outnumbered by 50k or some men, while others believe they outnumbered the Persians by a holy shitload. Like most of what we know about that time, the histories are rife with myth and inaccuracy so its a pain in the ass separating the wheat from the chaff to figure out what really happened. Of course the Greek historians are going to say that a small force overthrew the giant evil empire's invasion force against impossible odds; history IS written by the victor, after all.

The other one mentioned, Salamis, is really the battle that won the war for the Greeks by destroying Xerxes' navy and main supply line. Again, by an outnumbered Greek navy that tricked, trapped and smashed Xerxes sizeable fleet.

"Real" history aside; either one of those battles would be chock full of outnumbered Greek badasses kicking the shit out of the evil Irania...err, I mean Persian hordes. And 300 proved that formula certainly makes for smashing success and rollicking good times (and decent History channel spinoffs!)

[Kaldon Grimblade]

Probably Xenophon's Anabasis or "March of the Ten Thousand" as it is better known. I can't believe this story hasn't been turned into a movie yet.

[Tuco]

I wish they'd make a movie depicting a realistic battle of either a roman army or a spartan army (An army that used the phalanx or a variation of it).

All the scenes I'm aware of that tried to use the phalanx ( the first battle in Gladiator, Rome episode 1's introduction of vorenus/pullo, the first war scene in 300, etc) have been really cool.

300 went a different way, and instead of showing the phalanx, which was 'the source of spartas power', they opted to instead show people running wildly and one shotting a bunch of persians (Or half shotting them. Leo throws a spear at some dude in the movie and hits him square in the chest and his buddy next to him goes flying. I've watched that scene three times now and still can't make out why he goes flying!)

Anyway, I wish they'd make a black hawk down or Saving Private Ryan movie showing one battle in the way we know it was fought. I'd rather see the romans fighting instead of the spartans just because the roman phalanx was much better engineered.

But yeah, no complaints from me if they make a stylized violence type sequel to 300.