300: Rise of an Empire is a movie directed by Noam Murro in 2014 and based on the comic book Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander by Frank Miller, first published in 2019. The movie features Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, Callan Mulvey, David Wenham, and others.
What users say
“The movie is better than the comic book”
But the comic book is worth reading.
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Storyline
Queen Gorgo of Sparta tells her men about the Battle of Marathon, in which King Darius of Persia was killed by General Themistokles of Athens ten years earlier. Darius’s son, Xerxes, witnesses his father’s death and is advised to not continue the war since only the gods can defeat the Greeks.
Movie vs Book
Year
2014
Minutes
102
Movie Rate
6.20
Source: IMDb
Movie
300: Rise of an Empire
Director: Noam Murro
Country: USA
Year: 2014
Length: 1h42m
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Year
2018
Pages
112
Book Rate
5.16
S: Goodreads
Comic Book
Xerxes
Subtitle: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander
Author: Frank Miller
Country: USA
First published in: 2018
Length: 112 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“It was really important to me that people would experience the same feelings from the movie as they did from the book.”
PABLO BERGER (Filmmaker)
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