The movie would become a surprise hit for the studio, taking in over $456 million at the worldwide box office, but Butler admits while making the movie he wasn't sure it would be any good. Long before Snyder began making DC Comics movies for Warner Bros., he was trying to convince the studio to make a stylish swords and sandals epic based on the 1998 Frank Miller graphic novel series. Interest in "300" has risen recently thanks to the release of Snyder's 4-hour epic cut of "Justice League" on HBO Max.
" 300" storms into theaters and IMAX this Friday and currently has a 75 percent Tomatometer with 12 reviews.(L-R) Zack Snyder and Gerard Butler on the set of "300." Warner Bros. You’re just filming on blue screen so you just film away like you would." It’s not like you’re constantly waiting for stuff to be moved and lasers to be pointed. "Yeah, the whole studio was wrapped in blue screen so in actual fact, the blue screen doesn’t become that much of an issue. Things that went wrong, you’d go, ‘Oh, how cool does that look that I hit him in the balls instead of the stomach?’ Honestly, sometimes, I hate to say it, but when you pick up an injury, that’s the stuff that looks really good."Īll this on one long stretch of blue screen.
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It was full of mistakes but it was so raw and hyped and the mistakes actually made it look even better. At a point, you go, ‘Well, you know what? If this was to look so smooth and perfect, it kind of takes away something from it.’ The first day I did it, there was something amazing about that. And yet, still mistakes would happen every time and to be honest, that’s actually what makes it what it is. "I must have done that about 500 times training. Once he got into it, the real meat of the fight came out. Take one was essentially Butler’s rehashing of his rehearsal sessions. It was a new rig that had never been used before, three cameras, so we ended up having to shoot the whole f*cking thing again and that was depressing, but it actually came out even better." He hadn’t seen me do it but then he said, ‘Well, go ahead, just rehearse it a little bit.’ And then I ended up doing it and it was such a blast. "At the last second, Zack took half a day just to set up this special rig and he said, ‘I think we’re going to have your stunt guy do it.’ And I died because I knew I was ready.
So that took a lot of training and I almost didn’t do it."Īs director Zack Snyder was setting up a special camera rig to capture the extended mayhem, Butler proved he could out-stunt the stunt men. In fact, that’s why my stunt guy said because they did ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Bourne Identity,’ and I really clung onto this fact because they said nobody in any of those films had to do a piece this long, uncut, with this many moves. "Maybe there’s a break halfway through it but we would do it the whole way through. "We took a whole day filming that," said Butler. When the film shows Leonidas taking out some 20 Persians in one stretch, Butler had to deliver. In the film adaptation of Frank Miller’s historical graphic novel, Gerard Butler portrays the legendary leader. King Leonidas led 300 Spartans against Persia’s army of thousands.
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