A tv series based on the 2006 film, 300 is in early development according to a report by Variety. Zack Snyder who directed and co-wrote the 2006 film, is in talks to direct and executive produce the series from Warner Bros. Television.

“Exact plot details are still being worked out, but sources say the show would serve as a prequel to the 2006 film. No writer or platform is currently attached to the project.”

300 was based on the graphic novel of the same name by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, which was a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. In the film, “In 480 B.C. a state of war exists between Persia, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Greece. At the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas (Gerard Butler), king of the Greek city state of Sparta, leads his badly outnumbered warriors against the massive Persian army. Though certain death awaits the Spartans, their sacrifice inspires all of Greece to unite against their common enemy.”