Frank Miller's '300' Made Into A Movie

With the "Unrated Director's Cut" of Dawn of the Dead DVD recently hitting store shelves, UGO spoke to Director Zack Snyder about his next project, a feature film adaptation of Frank Miller's "300" comic book.

What's going on with 300?

I'm really excited about 300. I was just on the phone with Frank [Miller] yesterday talking about the script that my partner, Kurt Johnstad, and I wrote. We got his take on it because we are doing a rewrite. The script is based almost exactly on the comic book, and all we did was add a second story with King Leonidas' wife trying to rally the troops to support her husband. We wanted a little more girl-power in the movie. We are about to shoot a test for Warner Bros because they want to see how the comic book comes to life and what it looks like.

If Robert Rodriguez's Sin City is horrible and bombs, how much would that affect the 300 movie?

Thank God Sin City doesn't come out for a while. Though I think if that happens to Sin City, 300 would still happen because they are really looking at the performance of a movie like Alexander. The thing about the 300 comic book is that it is rendered a bit more like reality than Sin City. Yes, it's stylized, but not to the extent that Sin City is.

Will Ephialtes be as deformed as he is in the comic book?

We've done some conceptual art for the movie so far. We did a maquette of Ephialtes and he looks exactly as he does in the comic book. We've also been working on the immortals.

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