Zack Snyder Talks 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE And Pushing It To March 2014
Updating on where the post-production process is currently at, Man Of Steel director Zack Snyder comments on pushing the sequel 300: Rise Of An Empire from this August to March 2014 and reveals exactly why the delay was decided.
Talking with SuperHeroHype while promoting Man Of Steel, Zack Snyder talks about Warner Bros.' upcoming sequel 300: Rise Of An Empire, the follow-up to his hit 2007 Frank Miller adaptation. While Snyder directed the first film, he only co-wrote and produced the second. He says that Rise Of An Empire was pushed from August 2013 to March 2014 to finish up the visual effects (since "every single thing" is green screen), and he also comments on how "lucky" they were to push it to next March since the first 300 opened in that month. "Yeah, they're working right now to finish it up. With visual effects, I mean, honestly we moved our date to March because we literally had no materials ready to show because we were doing the visual effects and for how "300ey" it is--every single thing is green screen and there's just nothing… Now, a lot of movies you see early footage and a lot of the stuff there's real footage that they shot against whatever, but we just don't have any of that, so it was really lucky that we were able to move it back to March, which is the "300" date normally. I know before that, I remember everyone was going like, "Why are we opening in March? Nothing ever comes out in March." All our people were mad about that, and I didn't even know that "Dawn of the Dead" came out in March. I was just like, "I think March is okay." They were like, "No, it's a disaster. No one releases movies in March." To check out SHH's full interview with Snyder (in which he discusses Man Of Steel and his interest in continuing its universe), click the source link below.
300: Rise Of An Empire stars Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green, Lena Heady and Sullivan Stapleton. The film is set to hit theaters March 7th, 2014.