Frank Miller’s 300 is a graphic novel depicting the Spartans’ stand at Thermopylae. Now it is being turned into a movie, which, like Sin City before it, is to be highly stylized — “operatic” in the words of one of the designers.
You can view the trailer and production journals at YouTube. Naturally, I was drawn to Video Diary 3: Spartan Training and Video Diary 5: Fight Choreography. The actors have a personal trainer who has them clearly performing a CrossFit workout, and the fight choreographers are from the Inosanto Academy — so don’t be surprised if the Spartans fight in a vaguely Asian style.