Three years ago, the screen adaptation of Frank Miller’s brutal graphic novel 300 became a global smash. Or it was a smash everywhere but Iran, which somehow objected to the depiction of an androgynous, bedazzled Persian king Xerxes laying cruel waste to the scrappy, ab-happy Spartans. The ethnic implications seemed the least of moviegoers’ concerns — not to mention Miller’s own, which have now returned to the mega-pierced monarch for the prequel Xerxes . The author still has a ways to go on the project, but I think we all know a movie adaptation is inevitable. As such, a first look at Xerxes — who makes Mr. T look like the Dalai Lama — clues us in to what will be pissing Iran off in the next two to three years.
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First Look at Frank Miller’s Xerxes Probably Won’t Thrill Iran
