For those of you that know me well, you know that one of my favorite books ever written is Steven Pressfield’s “Gates of Fire.” Pressfield is most know for the book “The Legend of Bagger Vance” which was made into a crappy movie with Matt Damon and Will “I’ll Do Any Piece of Shit Movie for Money” Smith.

Gates of Fire is a phenomenal piece of historical fiction about the Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartan soldiers and their allies held off over a million Persian troops for 3 days in order to allow the remainder of Grece to mobilize for war. Though ultimately all killed and Greece overrun, the Hellenes eventually rallied and drove Xerxes out of Greece, effectively stopping the further advancement of the mighty Persian empire.

This is a true story.

Gates of Fire came out in August of 1999. Clooney’s company has the rights to make a movie, and I was convinced that I needed to write it. Needless to say, neither the movie nor my script has been made (though I do have a start) and I thought we might never see this story told.

Frank Miller published “300” in December of 1999, just 4 months later. Though not as historically accurate as Gates of Fire or, especially, Herodotus’ “Histories,” it tells the same, if not a similarly moving story of the same events.

And now, there is a movie.

The trailer was leaked on the internet recently, but it has since been taken down. Bastards should just release the real fucking thing already. If I’m curt with you, it’s because time is a factor. I think fast. I talk fast.

I wish the trailer was still up – the visuals are like nothing you have seen before – rich, colorful, sureal. Go read Gates of Fire. Then join me next year for this film.

By the way, nobody commented on my last post. I guess we have forgotten.