--- title: '300: Rise of an Empire (2014)' type: 'film' director: 'Noam Murro' released: '2014-03-04' runtime_minutes: 102 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Action' - 'War' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/300-rise-of-an-empire-2014' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1253863/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) 2014 · 102 min · Drama, Action, War · United States ## Synopsis 300: Rise of an Empire is a 2014 American epic historical action film directed by Noam Murro from a screenplay by Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad, based on the comic book limited series Xerxes by Frank Miller. A sequel to 300 (2006), it takes place before, during, and after the main events of that film, and is a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Artemisium and the Battle of Salamis in the Greco-Persian Wars. The cast includes Lena Headey, Peter Mensah, David Wenham, Andrew Tiernan, Andrew Pleavin, and Rodrigo Santoro reprising their roles from the first film, alongside Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Hans Matheson, and Callan Mulvey. ## Credits - **Director:** [Noam Murro](https://cinepixo.com/people/noam-murro) - **Screenplay:** [Zack Snyder](https://cinepixo.com/people/zack-snyder), [Frank Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-miller), [Kurt Johnstad](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurt-johnstad) - **Producer:** [Zack Snyder](https://cinepixo.com/people/zack-snyder), [Deborah Snyder](https://cinepixo.com/people/deborah-snyder), [Bernie Goldmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernie-goldmann), [Mark Canton](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-canton), [Gianni Nunnari](https://cinepixo.com/people/gianni-nunnari), [Thomas Tull](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-tull) - **Original Music Composer:** [Junkie XL](https://cinepixo.com/people/junkie-xl) - **Director of Photography:** [Simon Duggan](https://cinepixo.com/people/simon-duggan) ## Cast - [Ben Turner](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-turner) as Artaphernes - [Andrew Pleavin](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-pleavin) as Daxos - [Callan Mulvey](https://cinepixo.com/people/callan-mulvey) as Scyllias - [Christopher Maleki](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-maleki) - [Rodrigo Santoro](https://cinepixo.com/people/rodrigo-santoro) as Xerxes I - [Peter Mensah](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-mensah) as Artemisia's trainer / Persian messenger - [Atanas Srebrev](https://cinepixo.com/people/atanas-srebrev) - [David Sterne](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-sterne) - [Caitlin Carmichael](https://cinepixo.com/people/caitlin-carmichael) as Artemisia I of Caria - [Mark Killeen](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-killeen) - [Hans Matheson](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-matheson) as Aeschylus - [Sullivan Stapleton](https://cinepixo.com/people/sullivan-stapleton) as Themistocles - [Jack O'Connell](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-o-connell) as Calisto - [Gerard Butler](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerard-butler) as Leonidas I - [Peter Ferdinando](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-ferdinando) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.300themovie.com/ Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/300-rise-of-an-empire-2014 Film facts: Wikidata (Q400332); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.