"This, I hope, will be the last property of mine that isn't directed by me," says Miller as he settles behind the desk in his New York office. "I was directing on Sin City, learning what I was doing, when they started making 300. I had input, of course, but this is Zack Snyder's film. Zack clearly had such a strong focus on exactly where he wanted to take it, and I liked that. To put it really simply, I always wanted this to be like a story told by a soldier over a campfire."

The story of 300 is indeed just that sort of tale, although it is unlikely that any ancient warrior would understand its current incarnation. This is a live-action picture, with real actors (Scotsman Gerard Butler stars as King Leonidas), but, as with Sin City, they play against a CGI background, in this instance a harsh, epic landscape that recalls Miller's original artwork.

Uh-oh.

I'll reserve real judgement until I see what happends, but just from a gut reaction standpoint, I fear this decision.

Both movies were directed extraordinarily well. His statement that 300 is "Zack Snyder's movie" is kind of asinine. There is maybe 7 minutes of screen time that isn't virually a pixel perfect rendition of the graphic novel. I agree that those 7 minutes didn't really add shit to the film, but really, not so bad.

I always fear when authors want to direct.

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