Zack Snyder says he wants to make a pornographic film influenced by '300'

• Zack Snyder said he wants to make a religious movie and a pornographic movie and could combine them.
• Snyder said his 2006 movie "300" is "on some level" pornographic, and could inspire a porn film.
• "300" is a historical retelling about the Battle of Thermopylae and features near-naked, ripped men.

"Army of the Dead" director Zack Snyder has been kicking around a couple of ideas for the genre of his next movie, and he has two very specific ideas in mind.

In an interview with The Telegraph, the man behind the "Snyder Cut" said that he wants to make a religious movie and a pornographic movie.

"I've always wanted to make a religious film and a pornographic film, and I've never really yet had the chance to do either," Snyder said. "Maybe if I could combine the two - or maybe '300' is that film, in some sense, a little bit. Or at least a primer for what that film could be."

While a religious, pornographic movie would be an eyebrow-raising blend of genres, Snyder believes that "300" is already "on some level" a pornographic movie.

"From a philosophical standpoint," the director said.

Based on Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's comic series of the same name, Snyder's "300" is a fictionalized and stylised retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae.

The movie is as famous for its instantly recognizable cinemtaography and choreographed, slow-motion fight scenes as it is for the pack of near-naked, ripped men who make up the 300 Spartans - led by Gerard Butler and Michael Fassbender.

"That kind of appreciation of the human form is something I really warmed to," Snyder said.

"300" was followed by a 2014 sequel - "300: Rise of an Empire" - but Snyder recently revealed that Warner Bros. passed on a third "300" movie. The movie, Snyder said, would have essentially been a love story between Hephaestion and Alexander the Great, but the studio wasn't up for it despite Snyder having written the script for it.

"I would love to do it, [WB] said no … you know, they're not huge fans of mine. It is what it is," Snyder told IndieWire.

Snyder has had a pretty good year otherwise, with fan reception to the 'Snyder Cut' very positive, while his new movie "Army of the Dead" is currently on Netflix.

Snyder said that he loved working with Netflix on the zombie movie starring Dave Bautista, and already has plans for sequels. There was one nude moment in the movie that Snyder had to cut because it was "too much" - it featured a male-stripper zombie who had a bite taken out of his penis.

While that naked moment didn't make it into his movie, perhaps, further down the line, Netflix will let Snyder make his religious, pornographic movie inspired by "300."