Actor Sullivan Stapleton admits to be more than open to a 300 sequel, suggesting that there is plenty of history left untapped.
After 300: Rise of an Empire’s impressive box office run this weekend, when it opened to $45 million domestically and $136 million worldwide, it’s only inevitable that talk would immediately begin to swirl around the sequel’s open door for another franchise installment. After all, God-King Xerxes was still alive at the end, and Athenians and Greeks were just beginning to quench their thirst for warfare’s blood.
Well Australian star Sullivan Stapleton, who played the role of heroic Athenian general Themistocles in Empire, is more than eager to see it continue as well. Taking a break from shooting his series Strike Back for Cinemax, Stapleton talked with Deadline about his career prospects following the box office success.
“When the show’s done, I want to come over to the States, and meet some of those guys who might give me a job and have something else to talk about with guys like you,” Stapleton told Deadline, admitting that the movie has opened doors.
But more intriguingly for 300 fans is what Stapleton said about seeing Themistocles and the world of Frank Miller’s Greece again.
“As for the sequel, it’s a huge story, and those battles between the Greeks and Persians went on for years and years,” Stapleton said. “I hope to God we do another sequel. If we don’t, hopefully they put me in another film.”
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