Warner Bros. marketing department has spent much of this week dropping character posters for the upcoming sequel 300: Rise of an Empire; we've seen posters for Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) as Queen Gorgo, Jack O'Connell (Skins) as Calisto, Eva Green (Dark Shadows) as Artemisia and Sullivan Stapleton (Animal Kingdom) as Themistokles, and now its the turn of Rodrigo Santoro's Xerxes, who promises that Athens will burn....
![Xerxes gets a 300: Rise of an Empire character poster]( "Xerxes gets a 300: Rise of an Empire character poster")
Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes, and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster 300, this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield - on the sea - as Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. 300: Rise of an Empire pits Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Artemisia (Eva Green), vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
300: Rise of an Empire opens on March 7th, 2014.
Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes, and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster 300, this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield - on the sea - as Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. 300: Rise of an Empire pits Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Artemisia (Eva Green), vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
300: Rise of an Empire opens on March 7th, 2014.