300: Rise of an Empire featurette focuses on the villains

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

If you’re planning on dining in hell with 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE when it opens next week, perhaps you’d like to get acquainted with some of the film’s villains first. A new featurette released by Warner Bros. takes us behind the battle lines to meet Artemisia (Eva Green), the sexy commander of the Persian navy, and Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), the man who would be god-king. Prettier bad guys you won’t find, I can assure you…

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 (Sullivan Stapleton) 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 against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Artemisia (Eva Green), vengeful commander of the Persian navy.

Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, Rodrigo Santoro, and David Wenham, 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE opens on March 7th.