[Movies] 300 May Get A Re-Release In 3D

Posted by Larry Csonka on 03.22.2010

Plus an update on Xerxes…

- ComingSoon.net recently spoke with director Zack Snyder, here are the highlights…

On 300 Getting a Re-Release In 3D: "The 3D thing, yeah, we had the meeting. We talked about it even during production, there being like a 3D element, and when I showed some of the footage around, now everyone's like, "It's gotta be 3D, it's gotta be 3D!" so I was like, "Okay." I had a bunch of meetings and basically, what convinced me was that they actually did a conversion of "300". I haven't seen the whole movie but they're talking about doing the whole movie. I saw maybe like a ten-minute section that they'd just done. By the way, they did an amazing job. The way we shot it actually, it's almost like a 3D movie anyway, so it really lends itself to that. There is a difference. If you look at the trailer for "Guardians," it's clearly a true 3D movie, it's just whistle clean, all of the layers, all of the elements are tack sharp, it's crazy. So there is a difference, but I feel like the cool thing about "Sucker Punch" - it's exactly like Alan (Horn) said, "If you want a 3D experience with that movie, it will be there and it will be awesome. If you want to see it in 2D, it will be there as well.""

On Xerxes: "I'm waiting on Frank (Miller) for the sequel to '300' and there's a really good chance that will be the thing we do," he said, "He's been working hard, so he's supposed to show me something really soon; actually in the next few months, he's going to show me something. There was a big discussion about what we would do for the sequel to '300' and I said, "I didn't tell Frank what to write the first time, and I'm not telling him what to write this time," he told us when asked who came up with the idea for Xerxes. "I'll take it and I'll adapt it and make it into a movie and I'll write a screenplay, but I want him to do whatever he thinks. I'm not going to say I'm 100%, like that's it, but on the other hand, I'm pretty confident it's going to be awesome. That would be the next thing and then I'm working on a sci-fi thing that Kurt and I are writing together, an original thing."