The Werewolf's Lair wrote:
> -
> "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it". -- George
> Santayana
> "Kent" <kent.news.account@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:QA_5j.2881$iU.995@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> The Werewolf's Lair wrote:
>>> [snip] Steven Pressfield. He's
>>> also the author of "Gates Of Fire", which became the movie "300".
>> Um, not in any way, shape, or form.
>>
>> The movie 300 is the adaptation of the Graphic Novel "300" by Frank
> Miller.
>> The only connection between the film and Pressfield's book is that they
> happen
>> to be different fictionalized versions of the same historical fact.
Both
>> appeared in 1998, so are unlikely to have been related to each other,
> though
>> they certainly may have shared inspirations.
>>
>> Kent
>
> You are only partly right. "300" is actually a remake of a movie called
> "Gates Of Fire", made much earlier based on Pressfield's book.
>
>
No, the film 300 is based on Frank Miller's graphic novel "300" which came
out
the same year as Pressfield's "Gates of Fire"
The director had _planned_ a film based on Gates of Fire, but when he saw
Miller's Graphic novel he bought the rights to it. The film "300 is a shot
for
shot adaptation of the graphic novel.
It is certainly possible that both were inspired by the 1962 film "The 300
Spartans" which Miller admits influenced him greatly, but "Gates of Fire
did
_not_ "become the movie 300"
kent
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