It has been some time since it was announced that Alex Proyas would be adapting Milton's poem Paradise Lost to the big screen for Legendary Pictures. Since then a number of high profile actors have been attached to the project too. Braldey Cooper, Ben Walker, Casey Affleck, Djimon Hounsou, Rufus Sewell, Camilla Belle, Diego Boneta and Callan McAuliffe were all set to star in the pic about an epic war in heaven between archangels Michael and Lucifer. There was the promise of large, epic air battles in 3D.
But Paradise is now lost forever as Legendary Pictures have pulled the plug on the pic. Insiders close to the production say, "...that while Proyas' vision of the movie was great, the technology wasn't quite there, and the filmmakers couldn't reduce the budget enough to satisfy Legendary".
This is very sad. We like Mr. Proyas a lot. I wonder if the producers looked at the final scene in Tarsem Singh's Immortals and thought to themselves, 'Holy hell. We don't have a big enough coin purse to compete with that!!!'.
Officials at EFM2012 were called to keep an eye on our Lord and Master Todd, ScreenAnarchy's resident Milton expert, and stop him from throwing himself into the Spree River in despair.