Back to the Battlefield with a New Guy

Could Warrior breakout Joel Edgerton be the next Gerard Butler?

Well, maybe.

The Aussie actor is in talks to star in 300: Battle of Artemisia, a sequel to the 2006 hit that made Butler a household name. (The Scot can’t star in the follow-up since his King Leonidas died at the end of it, y’ see.)

Edgerton would play Themosticles, the famed archon and general who led the Greeks to victory against invading Persians in 480 BCE.

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