
Zack Snyder, director of the upcoming film adaptation of Frank Miller's 300 graphic novel, told SCI FI Wire that he used Miller's comic as a template for the movie. "I drew the movie," Snyder said in an interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego over the weekend. "So the way I would do it [is] I'd draw a frame, and ... I'd photocopy Frank's frames, so basically the challenge for me was to get the movie to go through Frank's frames. ... If you look at the book, it's a montage, right? It's not a moment-to-moment experience, like a film is. So the challenge for me is to go, 'OK, here's the moment that Frank drew. The horse rears up, and it's frickin' awesome. So I how like get into that moment?'" More...