Paradise Lost: the Movie!

Say wha....? "Paradise Lost" movie goes ahead. $100 million budget. Should Daniel Craig or Heath Ledger play Satan?

No... hold on a minute. Some pieces of Hollywood news are just to difficult to absorb. A Paradise Lost movie? As in, the Milton poem? Turned into an action blockbuster?

The film, likely to be directed by Scott Derickson ("The Exorcism of Emily Rose"), is based on John Milton's 17th-century epic poem which tells the story of Lucifer's fall and the temptation of Adam and Eve.

The writers are deliberately moving away from the Milton touches to the text and Adam and Eve aspect in favour of the war of archangels - the battle in Heaven between God’s and Satan’s armies.

The aim is also to make the Devil into a deeper and more interesting character along the lines of Henry Hill in "Goodfellas".

NONONONONO! Stop the INSANITY!

"Moving away from the Milton touches to the text?" What the hell does that mean? So... they're going to call this "Paradise Lost" and claim it's an adaptation, but not actually include anything from... Paradise Lost?

(Might be a good idea, but again, see "WHA...?")

Oh, and part deux? "to make the Devil into a deeper and more interesting character along the lines of Henry Hill in "Goodfellas""

Because everyone knows Satan in PL is simplistic and boring?

Shouldn't that line read, "after all, they decided to make Henry Hill in 'Goodfellas' into a charismatic, fascinating study in evil like Satan in 'Paradise Lost'?

Dare I ask... have these people *read* the poem?

I'm torn between curling into a small ball and crying or shrugging my shoulders and saying "God vs Satan movie? Cool."

Working for the church while your family dies!

I've been listening to the new Arcade Fire and the new Explosions in the Sky album on a random mix, & I'm really digging them. Neon Bible isn't as good as Funeral, but that "Intervention" song is damn catchy

re: earlier post

I actually had to doublecheck the date to make sure it wasn't April Fool's Day already.

And then I was inspired to post this, as my personal "nuh-uh" to a movie industry that conspires to make English teachers cry.

From the Real Paradise Lost:

Hail horrors, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less then hee
Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.

Yeah. You tell 'em, Satan.