Is Zack Snyder not going to direct the discussed “300″ prequel?
Or is he just saying he wouldn’t direct it if Warner Bros. tried to sit down and make the movie with Frank Miller, rather than just let Miller make a graphic novel on his own and — if Snyder like it – make a movie about it. In this NYTimes interview, he talks about the project somewhat in the past tense like he’s not personally involved anymore.
“Just like this ‘300’ sequel that we talked about. I said to them, here’s the thing, this is the way I would do it. The way I would do it is if Frank drew a graphic novel, it came out in the marketplace and people said, “That’s pretty cool.” And I read it and said, “You know what, Frank, that’s pretty cool. Maybe we’ll make this into a movie.” That is the only version – the studio wants it to be, sit with Frank, come up with an idea, write a screenplay, maybe he’ll do a graphic novel based on the screenplay. I’m like, ‘Yeah, I want nothing to do with that.’ I have no interest in that. It would be like me going to Cormac McCarthy and going, “I have an idea for a movie: You write a book and I’ll write a movie, and you can release it. You’ll win a Pulitzer, I’ll win an Oscar. It’ll be awesome.” The attitude toward comic books, they show their hand a little bit. They would never say that about a real novelist, but they would about a comic book. “They just crank those out, right? It’s like no big deal.”
Either way, it sounds like if it were to happen to Snyder’s specifications, that would be a waaays off and nothing sounds set in stone. Unless — now that Miller is a bonafide Hollywood filmmaker — he could direct it on his own. “The Spirit!” *cough* Gerard Butler has already said he wouldn’t be interested in revisiting “300”s intensely homoerotic territory again.