Monday, October 02, 2006

From the Department of Worries in Development

From the October 6th Chronicle of Higher Education . . .

Variety informs us that Legendary Pictures, in partnership with Warner Brothers, is developing a film version of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. To remind you: Lucifer, fresh off his failed coup attempt in heaven, engineers Adam and Eve's fall from grace.

On paper, anyway, the onetime undergrad theology student Scott Derrickson, attached to direct, seems like the man for the job; his filmography includes Love in the Ruins (1995), Hellraiser: Inferno (2000), and The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005).
nHumanities would add that Derrickson has a film titled Devil's Knot also in production. We smell a trend.

Sadly, Milton gets only third billing on writing credits for the Paradise Lost production.

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