'300' Sequel / Prequel Talk

There are some movies out there that just need sequels. They deserve sequels and crave sequels and can't exist as just one movie. They need closure and continuation. Imagine if Spider-Man or Iron Man or Batman Begins or Matrix Reloaded or POTC: Dead Man's Chest didn't have sequels (some of which are being made as I type this). How boring would that be, huh?

But then there are movies that don't need sequels. Not only do they not demand sequels, they shouldn't and cannot have sequels. Or even prequels, for that matter. I'm talking about movies like '300'. For those of you who haven't watched '300', please do. It's a beautiful movie and I don't mean Titanic beautiful...I'm talkin' hack and slash, visually stunning, epic beautiful. None of that mushy stuff. But as great as '300' is, it doesn't need a sequel, prequel, spin-off, TV series...nothing! It's absolutely fine the way it is and that's with just one single movie. Just one '300'. Just 2-hours of sweet blades and spears and 10,000 ways to effin' slash a sonoffab***h in half. That's '300'.

But hey, Hollywood is Hollywood and money is money so...why not make a sequel and possibly damage an awesome movie, right? There's been a lot of talk lately about a 300 sequel / prequel and needless to say, Zack Snyder as the director would be inevitable. According to the producers and Snyder himself, they've thrown some ideas around and Frank Miller is interested in penning the graphic novel as an addition to '300'. Zack says that he wouldn't direct if Miller isn't writing the graphic novel. Once that is done, the movie will be based on it. So while this seems pretty much as if the producers respect the integrity of the film, I'm still baffled as to how they're even gonna' churn a story out of this. Despite '300' literally rewriting the historical events that it was originally based on, it still is a period piece...so what more can be done there? The war afterwards? Or a story on how King Leonidas came to be the king of Sparta? His past wars, maybe? While the movie may turn out to be as stunning as '300', it's still a very unnecessary project. There's really no need for this!

When asked about reprising his role as Leonidas, Gerard Butler said that he doesn't see this project working out too well and would be skeptical about reprising the role. Finally, a dose of common sense! Gerard Butler is the man!