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There’s a commonly known adage about not reinventing the wheel, and – as addendum – especially not when said wheel is a fist pumping, CGI painted spectacle of blood, guts and glory that has garnered quite the fanbase. All the trailers thus for 300: Rise of an Empire, director Noam Murro’s sequel to Zack Snyder’s blood soaked hit, seemed to indicate just …

With all the Gravity’s and Hunger Games and movies that might be pornography lately, it seems that we may have forgotten just a tad about 300: Rise of an Empire, the kinda sequel (parallelquel?) to Zack Snyder’s fan favourite 2006 graphic novel adaptation. Snyder is still co-writing (with Kurt Johnstad) while relative unknown Noam Murro takes over the director’s seat. But …

Back in 2007, with just one swift kick to a Persian sternum by a really angry Gerard Butler, writer-director Zack Snyder kicked off a 1000 memes with his immensely popular, frame for frame, highly stylized adaptation of Frank Miller’s classic graphic novel, 300. Now a sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, is on the horizon and despite the fact that Snyder …