After its victory over Leonidas' 300, the Persian Army under the command ... with the traditional rival of Athens, oligarchic Sparta whose might lies with its superior infantry troops.

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Butler plays Leonidas, the King of Sparta, who leads 300 Spartans ... and Michael Fassbender. A sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, followed in 2014, and a TV show is currently in the works.

"This is Sparta!" Zack Snyder recently reunited ... to greenlight a sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, which was co-written by Snyder and Kurt Johnstad, based on Miller's then-unpublished comic ...

and if you thought 300 was bloody, wait until you get a load of the sequel. Fictionalized action films based on the retellings of the Persian Wars, a series of conflicts between the Empire of ...

In the end, King Leonidas and all of his Spartans were killed by the Persians. 300 is a movie brimming with ... slave uprising against the Roman Empire from 73-71 BCE, which became known as ...

Both 300 and the sequel film 300: Rise of an Empire are available to stream on Netflix. Warner Bros Discovery is leveraging a surprising TV asset to promote the upcoming vanguard for the new DCU ...