My historical knowledge is spotty in certain ways, but I know an awful lot about a three-day battle. What was it about Zack Snyder’s vision for “300” that made you confident that he could tell this story right?įRANK MILLER: He understands the battle as well as I do, and that is saying a lot. They brought Zack Snyder in to direct and, after a couple of conversations with him, I was confident that this would be as harsh a retelling as I wanted. I was hesitant, the same way I always am about my comics turning into movies, but they convinced me they were sincere about really doing my story. Gianni Nunnari and Mark Canton wanted to adapt my book. How did your graphic novel evolve into a movie?įRANK MILLER: My book had been out for a few years and it seems to be a story that every generation has to revisit, the same way “The Alamo” is. I wanted it to sound as if it had been told by an old warrior over a campfire and to look as we would vision it while listening to him. It haunted me ever since I was a little kid.įRANK MILLER: It was meant to be that way. So, once I thought I could draw and write it well enough I went to Greece and began the research, and a few years later produced the book. It led to a life long fascination with that battle and that war, and it became a story I never stopped talking about. I had never seen a story where the heroes died before. Though he’s dabbled in the film world before (he wrote the screenplays for “Robocop 2” and “Robocop 3”), Miller’s now spending a lot more time in Hollywood -he recently co-directed “Sin City”, and currently serves as executive producer on “300”, a big-budget take on Miller’s legendary graphic novel.įRANK MILLER: I was a 5-year-old boy when I saw “300 Spartans”, a movie made in 1962. “The Dark Knight Returns”, “Sin City”, “Ronin”, “Rusty the Robot” – all creative output of comic book and artist, Frank Miller, a wizard of inked offerings who first came to attention in the 70s.

300 by Frank Miller