“Camelot’s” Eva Green is nearing a deal to star in the Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures 300: Rise of an Empire. The 31-year-old Paris-born actress will play Artemisia, the golden goddess who leads Persian king Xerxes into battle against Athenian general Themistokles.

Original 300 director Zach Snyder returns as producer and cowriter on a script based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel. Noam Murro (Smart People) will helm the project, which is set to shoot early next year.

Green, best known for playing Bond girl Vesper Lynd in Casino Royal and sorceress Morgan Le Fay on the Starz short-lived series “Camelot,” will next be seen as witch Angelique Bouchard in Tim Burton’s big-screen adaptation of the 1966 TV goth soap “Dark Shadows.”