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East of Eden

Posted in Paradise Lost on 10 Apr 2007 | 4 Comments »

It sounds like Scott Derrickson is off the Paradise Lost project, since according to HNR he’s now working on the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Needless to say, this could be a good thing, if PL gets a better director, or a bad thing if it gets a worse one.

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Godfellas

Posted in Movies, Paradise Lost on 7 Mar 2007 | 5 Comments »

The first thing one feels compelled to do when reading coverage about the prospective film adaptation of Paradise Lost (thanks, PRT) is to get the corrections out of the way:
[Producer Vincent] Newman also knows that some might see this project as a fool’s errand. “It’s a 400-some-odd-page poem written in Old English,” he said, laughing. [...]

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Satan Incarnate

Posted in Movies, Paradise Lost on 29 Apr 2006 | 2 Comments »

Thinking about actors that could play Satan in Paradise Lost, the best choice would probably be Paul Bettany:

Sure, he’s playing nothing but baddies this year (Firewall, The DaVinci Code) but it looks like, unfortunately, he won’t be playing the Joker in Nolan’s next Batman film, so he won’t have to be both the Clown Prince [...]

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PARADISE REGAINED DIRECTOR

Posted in Movies, Paradise Lost on 29 Apr 2006 | 3 Comments »

I know this news is a bit old, but the longer I think about the director of Emily Rose being hired to helm the announced adaptaion of Paradise Lost, the less cynical I’m becoming.
My initial reaction six months ago was that it would be impossible for this to succeed in any artistic way that retains [...]

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