300: Rise Of An Empire

'300: Rise of an Empire' was among the many offerings from Legendary Pictures' Comic-Con 2013 panel presentations on Saturday, Jul. 20 in Hall H. Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel 'Xerxes,' the prequel to '300' was originally slated to hit theaters this August but was later moved to March 7, 2014, naturally increasing its level of mystery.

'300: Rise of an Empire' was originally one of our most-anticipated movies of the year ... that is, until Warner Bros. decided to push the release date back from Aug. 2 to Mar. 7, 2014. But while we await the coming bloodshed, the studio has dropped a new poster in anticipation of its upcoming panel at Comic-Con 2013.

Themistokles is pitted against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes, and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.

'300: Rise of an Empire' director Noam Murro must have a thing for fluids. With the prequel's first poster, he gave us rain; now, with its latest one-sheet, he's unleashed a tidal wave of blood.

We haven't seen a trailer yet for Noam Murro's '300' prequel '300: Rise of an Empire' and now there's a very good reason why not. Today, Warner Brothers bumped the film into 2014, which caused Tom Cruise's 'All You Need is Kill' to move its release date as well.

A few weeks ago, we talked about our most anticipated films of the upcoming Summer movie season. It was full of the usual suspects: 'Pacific Rim,' 'Iron Man 3,' 'Man of Steel' and all of the other movies that you're already planning to see three times...

Last week saw the release of the first '300: Rise of an Empire' poster, which presented a muscle-bound soldier caught up in some rainy weather. Today we get four additional posters, including two devoted to the lovely Eva Green. And she's rather wet too. Have we got your attention?

You might think Zack Snyder is keeping busy, what with post-production on 'Man of Steel' and the latest trailer hitting today, but he broke a near six-month Twitter silence to tweet the debut of the first poster for '300: Rise of an Empire.' And the image definitely makes it look like the last movie, and that it is proud of its producer.

In case you forgot there's a '300' sequel on the way, we've got your first look at '300: Rise of an Empire,' which takes the action to the sea.

The new banner for '300: Rise of an Empire' provides an important service for everyone involved in the production: it reminds the public that a sequel to Zack Snyder's '300' actually exists and is coming to theaters sometime in 2013. For a film that's supposed to come out at the tail end of this summer, things have been awfully quiet. What the heck's going on with this movie?