A few weeks after giving fans a first look at 300: Rise of an Empire, Warner Bros. has issued the first trailer for the follow-up to the hit 2007 film 300.
The trailer, which runs two and a half minutes, gives a hint of the plot, with Artemisia (Eva Green) and Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) going against the Greek general Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton). It’s not technically a sequel or prequel, since it actually takes place around the same time as the original film, still it carries the David-versus-Goliath theme that carried the original.
While Zack Snyder was too busy directing Man of Steel to do Rise of an Empire he did produce the sequel and new director Noam Murro has kept most of Snyder’s visual style. It’s clear that there’s a lot of blue screen (the entire first film was made using blue screen) and slow motion during the film’s most violent scenes.
“The idea of this movie was always that it takes place at about the same time of the first one,” Murro told MTV News. “I think 300 was wonderfully done in an operatic way, one location almost, and explore that...This is a much larger palette, historically and geographically. It is larger in scale, and it takes place on water."
300: Rise of an Empire hits theaters in IMAX and 3D in March 2014.
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