300

300 is a 2006 American epic action film directed by Zack Snyder, adapted from Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's 1998 comic-book series of the same name. The film fictionalises the Battle of Thermopylae, with King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) leading 300 Spartans into battle against Xerxes I and his Persian army. Shot almost entirely against blue screen, its highly stylised, painterly visuals and slow-motion combat became a defining look for late-2000s action cinema and spawned a 2014 sequel, Rise of an Empire (Wikipedia)