Eight tardy years later, the belated sequel “ 300: Rise Of An Empire” arrives in theaters, its momentum all but nonexistent. It was something of a game-changer and surprise runaway hit, cementing Snyder’s status as a tentpole-worthy filmmaker, grossing $450 million worldwide and transforming March into the early blockbuster season it is now.Īs with any box-office success, the studio’s avaricious appetite for more was whet and a sequel was quickly green lit. In 2006, Zack Snyder took the movie world by storm with “ 300,” a muscular, testosterone-fueled adaptation of a Frank Miller swords-and-sandals graphic novel which took Robert Rodriguez’s“ Sin City” concept-painting the comic book pages right onto the screen-to the next level, and arguably, its zenith.
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