300: BATTLE OF ARTEMISIA may have to be retitled as Gerard Butler has revealed he is no longer involved in the project. Talking to MTV, Butler said:
I’m not doing it. They’re filming [the 300 sequel] right now. I wish them the best, but it didn’t [work out]. It wasn’t really my thing.
300: BATTLE OF ARTEMISIA was to take place at the same time as 300, making it a sidequel and allowing characters from that film to crossover in some capacity. Who knows what Butler means when he says it isn’t his thing! Perhaps his part wasn’t big enough, or he didn’t like the direction director Noam Murro was taking it in. Murro replaces Zack Snyder who is currently shooting MAN OF STEEL.
300: BATTLE OF ARTEMISIA is released 2nd August 2013. It stars Eva Green, Rodrigo Santoro, Sullivan Stapleton, Jack O’Connell, Andrew Tiernan, and Callan Mulvey.
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