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On the data. Two things. The second film is not a sequel and calling it one causes confusion. Rise of an Empire covers the naval side of the same Persian invasion. Some of it is a prequel, some of it runs at the same time as the first film, and the last stretch is after it. It is best thought of as the other half of one war. On the history: neither film is trying to be accurate and the comic was not either. Thermopylae happened, the numbers are roughly right, and almost everything else is myth, including the monsters, the god-king and the idea that only three hundred Spartans were there. Several thousand other Greeks fought and died in that pass and the story gives them almost nothing. The Persian Empire is also depicted in a way that has drawn steady criticism, including formal objection from Iran when the first film came out. A third film has been written more than once. Nothing has been made. The comic is five issues and the film reproduces many of its images directly, so reading it after watching is a strange experience rather than a redundant one.

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