
Zack Snyder, director of the upcoming graphic-novel adaptation 300, told SCI FI Wire that he changed Frank Miller's book to play up the role of Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey), wife of Spartan King Leonidas (Gerard Butler). "We wanted to make sure that ... the battles didn't become abstract in the sense that I didn't want people to lose track of what they were fighting for," Snyder said in an interview at WonderCon in San Francisco over the weekend. "So the idea of checking back in with Sparta was the thing that we felt like made sense from the beginning."