According to Variety, Frank Miller is working on a follow-up to 300, his comic from Dark Horse that was adapted into a movie last year — and Legendary Pictures confirms they’re developing it into a movie.
Unfortunately they’re short on details about the story, which should prove challenging based on what happens at the end of the first one. So this one could be a prequel or spin-off, they hypothesize.
More from Variety:
“The vision of Frank Miller’s universe that Zack Snyder brought to the screen in ‘300′ is unlike anything ever seen before,” said Legendary topper Thomas Tull. “We want to be certain that the story originates with Frank and be as compelling as the first.”
Another “300″ has been rumored from the start, but last week Snyder and the original producing team stoked a frenzy online when they talked about it at the Saturn Awards.
Snyder has yet to confirm his involvement, as he’d rather wait and see what the story’s going to be first. Both Snyder and Miller are pretty busy on Hollywood sets these days, with Miller directing The Spirit and a Sin City sequel in the works, and Snyder focused on Watchmen and Guardians of Ga’Hoole.
June 30th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I thought that speculation has it that Frank is just working on a movie script to a 300 sequel?…I didn’t seem to recall anything about Frank miller doing a comic/ graphic novel sequel to the original series…sounds unlikely that Frank Miller is going to take 1-2 years off to write and draw a new comic series at this juncture in his career with him being a big-time movie director and all.
Plus if he really did a comic sequel…..we’re probably not going to see Lynn Varley’s gorgeous color work in it now that Frank and her are no longer together.
June 30th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
This will be to 300 what the Dark Knight Strikes Again was to DKR.
Just kidding. Still, this has to make more than a few people anxious, given Frank has seemingly turned to extreme self-parody in his writing.
June 30th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Milking the cash cow eh?
June 30th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
The natural follow-up to 300 would be 10,000… as in the 10,000 Greeks featured in Xenophon’s Anabasis.