Of the earlier film, I wrote prophetically: 'This isnt an adaptation of a comic book, its like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids.' They must have been buying steroids wholesale for '300. Now, as I deserve, I get '300,' based on another work by Miller. Drawing from an unpublished sequel to 300, 300: Rise of an Empire (the title is meaningless) is a follow up to the first film where the Spartans have died. Lena Headey also makes an appearance in the movie and in this trailer, reprising her role as Queen Gorgo. I gave a four-star rating to 'Sin City,' the 2005 film based on a graphic novel by Frank Miller. It sees Xerxes’ commander of the Persian navy Artemisia ( Eva Green) doing battle on the seas against Themistokles ( Sullivan Stapleton), a Greek general attempting to unite all of Greece. The movie follows the Battle of Artemisium, another battle involving the Persians, led by the God-King Xerxes ( Rodrigo Santoro), that unfolds around the same time that 300‘s Battle of Thermopylae. Butler - The Phantom of the Opera) and his royal guard of soldiers numbering just 300. The UK trailer for Rise of an Empire has been released, and it clocks in at only about a minute. But if you fear a trailer giving away too much and that first trailer is a little lengthy for your taste, here’s another option. We’ve already seen a two-and-a-half-minute trailer for 300: Rise of an Empire, the much anticipated sequel to Zack Snyder’s 2006 stylized hit about King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his brave 300 Spartans.