Gerard Butler may have once sported the greatest eight-pack in the history of mankind, but his punishment for it (besides all the puking and crying I assume happened in the shaping of it) will be to answer questions about a 300 spin-off until the end of his career. While at the Toronto Film Festival, where many of my lucky colleagues are, Butler was asked again about the franchise potential of 299 dead Spartans by Superhero Hype . "I’ve heard some backroom chatter, but nothing more, so I don’t know if it would be a sequel or a prequel. I don’t want say anymore than that, because I really don’t know. I haven’t read anything. I can’t see it myself -- sequel for me absolutely not, but I just mean the idea generally, I’m really not sure which way they would go with that." He was asked this same question at RocknRolla’s ComicCon junket, and his answer then suggested he’d actually been approached with a more solid idea. "N...
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