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Director Zack Snyder gave us the fantastic voyage known as "300" (and subsequently gave Gerard Butler his career), and was getting ready to direct his own script of the sequel, Frank Miller's "Xerxes. " But now, Vulture is reporting that Warner Bros. offered the directing gig to "Sherlock Holmes " helmer, Guy Ritchie!

Theories abound as to why.

First, Vulture is saying that the studio needs Snyder to concentrate on his "Superman" version. Apparently, the upcoming Man of Steel movie has some major script problems, specifically its third act. Warner Bros. wants to move faster than a speeding bullet on the franchise because legally, production must move forward by 2013 or the studio loses its rights to the entire franchise.

But another theory that Vulture presupposes is more salacious!

Supposedly, the audience research screening of Snyder's upcoming "Sucker Punch" was HORRIBLE! It tested poorly. An insider revealed to Vulture that, “It was bad; like, really bad. They’re [Warners brass] really not happy with it over there.”

Is Warner's love for Snyder gone, gone, gone? His last two films for the studio namely "Watchmen" and "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" underperformed so there may be a kernel of truth to this rumor.

(Check out my interview with Snyder for "The Legend of the Guardians" right here )

Let's wait and see if Ritchie is going to accept the job, and if he's going to overhaul Snyder's intended vision for "Xerxes."

Now this makes me want to see "Sucker Punch" more which opens March 25th!