{"id":2313987,"date":"2026-03-05T15:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2313987"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:15:27","slug":"one-of-the-best-comic-book-movie-directors-ever-helped-create-spartacus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/one-of-the-best-comic-book-movie-directors-ever-helped-create-spartacus\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of The Best Comic Book Movie Directors Ever Helped Create Spartacus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Steven S. DeKnight<\/a>‘s “Spartacus<\/a>,” which aired on Starz<\/a> from 2010 to 2013, brought the sword-and-sandal genre to the small screen with roaring success. The series starred Andy Whitfield<\/a> and, following Whitfield’s death in 2011, Liam McIntyre<\/a> as the titular Roman gladiator-turned-revolutionary in a gritty, R-rated take on his rise and fall. When Starz first announced plans for “Spartacus<\/a>,”\u00a0reports described the series as aiming for a graphic-novel-style aesthetic, drawing comparisons to Zack Snyder<\/a>‘s comic book film “300<\/a>.” What fans might not have been aware of, though, was that the series was produced by one of the most successful comic book movie directors of the early 2000s.<\/div>\n

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Steven S. DeKnight‘s “Spartacus,” which aired on Starz from 2010 to 2013, brought the sword-and-sandal genre to the small screen with roaring success. The series starred Andy Whitfield and, following Whitfield’s death in 2011, Liam McIntyre as the titular Roman gladiator-turned-revolutionary in a gritty, R-rated take on his rise and fall. When Starz first announced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2313988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2313987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/One-Of-The-Best-Comic-Book-Movie-Directors-Ever-Helped.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313989,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313987\/revisions\/2313989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}