Few days ago (4/8/2006) an interview of 300’s director Zack Snyder was published, discussing his ongoing work of the Miller’s 300 and his forthcoming Watchmen. Regardless that the interview was designed to discuss the 300 as a main subject, Snyder consider that his movie entitled Watchmen is more interesting to talk about. Why, as far as they both concern, Snyder and the interviewer, Watchmen is a more difficult task, because, Snyder will not have the support of Alan Moore – Watchmen’s creator – as he has Miller for the 300.
For Snyder the 300 is “not a movie, it’s something else”. It appears that for Snyder the 300 is “an experience” – and in comparison to Watchmen is relatively less difficult. The 300 is “not a big action thing. That’s the problem with it, in the sense of that’s what happens to a screenplay, is that when you distill it down, you end up with only the action scenes. That’s why you have to be careful, because you don’t want it to become that, because then it becomes like a movie.”
Frank Miller’s 300 comic series, is only familiar to a very small portion of Miller’s funs. In short the movie will be something ‘new’ – in the aspect of the style and script – to viewers, however, the story everyone familiar with it.
I mean, any historian will tell you about Thermopylae, a famous crossroads in history. And so for that matter, it is a worthwhile story to tell, and I think that Frank, like myself, is inspired by that same story. I think and my hope is that in some ways it has accessibility in a broader world than “Sin City.” Though I’m a huge fan of “Sin City,” I feel like my father can go see “300” and go like, “That’s awesome!” and see a fight for democracy, and I can go see it and go “Oh yeah, there’s girls kissing!”
It looks like that Snyder as well as Miller want to produce a well traded movie for a variety of people who wish to be entertained and not of been educated! At the end that seems to be the principle of comics and of movies.
The movie will be on screens at March the 16th 2007.
Source: Superhero Hype
