Up yours, English literature snobs! Alex Proyas (“The Crow,” “Dark City”) has been tapped to bring Milton’s 17th century classic work “Paradise Lost” to the big screen in a version that will probably end up bearing very little resemblance to the poem anyway.
While the film will tell the story of the epic battle between Michael and Lucifer, it “will be crafted as an action vehicle that will include aerial warfare, possibly shot in 3D.” Think it sounds like a bad idea turned in by a committee of writers? You probably aren’t far off. The project has already seen a handful of scribes (mostly unknown) add their two cents to the script, including Stuart Hazeldine, Byron Willinger, Philip de Blasi, Lawrence Kasdan (“The Big Chill,” “Raiders Of The Lost Ark”) and Ryan Condal.
The film is a co-production between Warner Bros. and Legendary and frankly, it sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. No word yet on when production is slated to begin or how/if it will affect production of “Dracula Year Zero” with Sam Worthington attached. [Variety]