Warner Bros. developing a 300 TV show, hopefully with Zack Snyder directing

In 2007, Zack Snyder released 300, a monster hit based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller about the Battle of Thermopylae, when an alliance of Greek city states fought an army assembled by Xerxes I of the Persian Empire. Although if you were looking for historical accuracy, you've come to the wrong place. 300 was about stylized action scenes, slow-motion, testosterone, and so many six-packs you'd think it was shot in a Budweiser bottling plant.

The movie made $500 million of a $65 million budget, and even though the 2014 follow-up 300: Rise of an Empire wasn't nearly as big of a hit, the original movie maintains some cultural relevance. For one thing, it helped Zack Snyder climb the ladder to join the ranks of A-list directors, where he's established himself as the vainglorious schlock slinger behind Justice League or the visionary genius behind Zack Snyder's Justice League, depending on who you ask. And now, Warner Bros. wants to go back to the well for a 300 TV show.

This comes from TV Line, which has precious few details beyond that. The series is being developed as a prequel to the original movie, which starred Gerald Butler as Spartan leader and CrossFit enthusiast Leonidas. There's no writer attached, but Warner Bros. is hoping to woo Snyder back to direct.

Snyder's latest project has been the Rebel Moon sci-fi movies over on Netflix, which have generally gone over fairly poorly with fans and critics alike, although it's harder to determine if they were ratings successes, in which case all would be forgiven, at least by Netflix. Snyder's career is all about peaks and valleys, so who's to say that returning to ancient Greece wouldn't put him back on top?

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