So that was the challenge and it was also the opportunity - to take the water and operatically manipulate it to do what you want it to do stylistically and thematically, if you will. When you create and think operatically, you can’t control water unless you can control it later in post. We certainly kept that, but there was a very important character here which was the water, which was not ever created in the original 300 because it was all land battle. A lot of the imagery is about creating these massive, epic scenes in post.
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Murro: From a visual point of view and from a storytelling point of view, we kept the same methodology, if you will, of how to make this film in the sense that it was all done on green screen. In the first movie, there are a lot of effects when it comes to the armies, do you continue on that path or did you go more practical? Actually, in this one, there’s a little bit of the Xerxes backstory, so it was real cool to try to bring some humanity to this character, and I was really excited about it. I was part of the first one, and when I heard that they were doing a second one, I was very excited. Sullivan Stapleton: Well, for me, they thought that I looked like the guy that played in the first one. I’ve done serious films before when it was all pretty much in my head, so it was a challenge to be violent, cut people in half, and kill lots of people. It’s an epic film.Įva Green: For me, it’s my first action film so that was really cool. I auditioned like everyone else, I think. Rodrigo Santoro: It was an honor to be asked to make another film such as that because we have all seen the first one. How do you keep enough of it and still create something very new.įor the cast, how did you first come onto the project and what kind of love and affection did you have for the Frank Miller novel and Zack Snyder’s movie? There is enough 300 DNA in Rise of an Empire, but there is a lot of new stuff in it.
This was very similar in that way in that I had 300 as a point of reference and the idea was always to take the DNA of that movie and being able to look back at it and use it as a reference and build upon it. Noam Murro: I think that the idea was very much like Zack had Frank Miller in the back of his head when he did 300. How much did you want to honor that style and in what ways did you want to do something new? Question: The first 300 had such a distinct visual style. Told in the breathtaking visual style of 300, this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield - on the sea - as Greek general Themistokles (Stapleton) attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes (Santoro), and Artemisia (Green), the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.ĭuring the interview, they talked about how the distinct visual style of the first film informed the second one, how technology allowed them to create a world stylistically that wasn’t possible six years ago, the complexity of shooting a naval movie that happens in the water using green screen and creating epic sequences in post, how the cast felt about returning to characters they’d played before, having a strong female role that’s unapologetic, the awesome trailer that blew up all over the internet, Zack Snyder’s involvement, the musical choices that carried over from the first film, and more. While at Comic-Con this weekend for a presentation in Hall H, co-stars Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green, Sullivan Stapleton and director Noam Murro spoke to the press about 300: Rise of an Empire, their exciting action adventure based on Frank Miller’s latest graphic novel, Xerxes.
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