The entertainment industry, apparently not satisfied with turning Dante’s Inferno into an Xbox game, has set its sights on Milton’s Paradise Lost:
“The project tells the story 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.”
The director is the guy who did Will Smith’s I, Robot, so you can judge his approach to literary adaptation for yourself. (h/t The AV Club)
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Paradise Lost has already become a science fiction novel, why not a video game?Report
@Mike Schilling, actually, this project will be a film, though if it picks up steam I’m sure there will be a video game tie-in.Report
@William Brafford,
Also Happy Meal action figures.Report
What made Paradise Lost awesome was not the special effects, but the speeches.
If they can’t do the speeches, it’ll be little more than a superhero story with superheroes that nobody’s heard of (nobody likely to purchase a ticket, anyway).Report
@Jaybird,
Lucifer is a very cool name for a superhero. Michael is (alas) not., so I suspect he gets renamed to Gabriel or perhaps Raphael (although the latter might confuse Ninja Turtle fans.)Report
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I watched about twenty minutes of I, Robot on cable one evening and in that time I saw Will Smith driving a car through an underground tunnel filled with CG robots. At one point, robots are hanging off his car so he drives very close to the wall to scrape them off. This doesn’t work, so he fires his gun out his passenger window at the robot, and thus directly into the concrete wall of an underground tunnel. Which means, the bullet should ricochet around the car and maybe kill him- try firing straight into a concrete wall three feet from your head. But nobody working on the film cared that much about how things move in the physical world.
Anyway, I’m expecting the same level of attention to Milton.Report