The lives of a struggling but madly ambitious Iranian playwright (Hafez Bashee) and an Arab serpent-king from 611 A.D (Zahhak)—once given the power to halt death in its tracks—become reticulated around a non-zero-sum game. 300 and BiRDMAN clash when Zahhak makes his pitch: toss out the unpromising conclusion penned for him in the 7th century. […]
