News > Another 300?

Via: Variety, CHUD 

With Hollywood attempting to milk any successful movie for as many sequels, prequels and spin-offs as possible right now, it is no surprise that box office goliath 300, director Zach Snyder has hinted to Variety that a second hyper-stylized Greek bloodbath is in the works.  Both Snyder and co-director/writer Frank Miller are tight-lipped about the sequel's source material but the article does say this:

"Miller is also prepping a follow-up to "300" based on another mythic tale from Greek history, but he won't divulge details." 

With Miller involved the possibility that this could be a real sequel, instead of studio-pushed hack job is far greater, but this new info still leaves a lot of questions unanswered.  Almost every recognizable figure in 300 is dead at film's end, would the sequel follow completely different characters?  And if so, would audiences flock to the theatres to attach themselves to similarly ill-fated characters?  My guess is the stylized violence was far more the draw then the bellowing man-abs of Gerard Butler, so I'm sure any new film with "300" smeared across it will do just fine.  I just hope Frank Miller can dredge himself out of the hole he dug with the Allstar Adventures of Batman and Robin and remember what it feels like to be a decent writer.