OMG. NO. NO: 'I, Robot Director Alex Proyas Signs On To Helm 3D Action Film Paradise Lost'

via screenrush.co.uk

Alex Proyas, the director responsible for I, Robot, Dark City and Knowing, has been chosen as the right man for the job of adapting John Milton's classic poem Paradise Lost into an epic 3D action movie.

For those who weren't paying attention in English class or, y'know, have just forgotten, Milton's extended poem deals with several religious stories, the most famous of which is the telling of Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The film however is going to deal with a different story, that of "the epic war in heaven between archangels Michael and Lucifer, and will be crafted as an action vehicle that will include aerial warfare, possibly shot in 3D," says Variety, who broke the story.

The screenplay has been written by Stuart Hazeldine (Exam), based on an original draft by Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi, with touches added by Lawrence Kasdan and Ryan Condal.

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