Derrickson Talks Paradise Lost Plans
If you’re going to tell the story of Lucifer’s fall from Heaven, you’d better have a good chunk of not just change, but creativity as well behind you. Thankfully Scott Derrickson understands this, which is why he’s been discussing production ideas for his forthcoming adaptation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost with Guillermo del Toro.
”I think that in genre filmmaking he’s the most exciting filmmaker in the world right now,” Derrickson told Sci Fi Wire in a recent interview, which is encouraging at least in terms of how Paradise Lost will look when it finally comes to theaters. But what about the story?
”I liked the idea of a big-budget movie about the fall of Lucifer and the war in heaven. That’s interesting; no one’s done that before,” Derrickson explained, ”but I didn’t think that a script could be done that would still be the true Milton, would feel like Milton. And the writer who did the screenplay, Stu Hazeldine, wrote one of the most brilliant scripts I’ve ever read. And when I read it, I think all of us were kind of blown away at what he had forged out in the screenplay form, and so if I can figure out how to properly visualize that script, it will be something.”
Hopefully he’ll get this one right; adapting Milton will be no easy task, but so far it seems like his heart and brain are in the right spots. Hit the link above to read the entire interview, and keep it here for more on Paradise Lost!
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