300 Sequel Isn’t ‘Xerxes’ Anymore. Now Titled ‘300: Battle of Artemisia.’
As much as I like Gears of War, or Fast and the Furious, or Rocky III for my fill of overtly homoerotic Freudian wet dreams, none were so flagrant and glorious as 300. Where is my second coming of dudes all but coming on one another? Running around, phallus in hand, glazed with sweat and spitting about camaraderie. I need it!
There was a sequel promised. Xerxes! I looked to it for this fill. It stalled, but it may live once more as 300: Battle of Artemisia.
[What] was Xerxes will hit theaters as 300: Battle of Artemisia. Assuming, that is, that the film is ever shot.
The sequel needs a director at this point, but that field seems to have narrowed down to a few possible choices that include Noam Murro and Jaume Collet-Serra.
Deadline has the info. So on one hand we’ve got Noam Murro, the guy who is developing Die Hard 5, and directed Smart People and many commercials including ones for Halo. Then there is Jaume Collet-Serra, who directed the Liam Neeson thriller Unknown, the pilot for The River, and has a few other films in the works like the Le Cercle Rouge remake and Harker. How will either of them do with the heavy green-screen action that defined 300? Difficult to say, though I’d almost peg Noam Murro, with his award-winning commercial background, at having a better shot with the tech side of things. But the narrative is a whole other deal, and in reality Jaume Collet-Serra also has a big commercial and music video background.
I vote Murro. I found his Halo commercials to be better than the games themselves. I know, no huge feat. They were still neat. If this project has to exist so I can comfortably high-five my friends on the ass for a couple more years and let my hand linger just a bit too long, I’d dig Murro directing it.
