Trouble in Paradise . . . .

"O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted . . .
Summer's chief honor if thou hadst outlasted
Bleak winter's force . . . thought to kiss
But kill'd alas, and then bewail'd his fatal bliss."
"On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough"
John Milton 1628

Legendary Pictures announces that John Milton (and the rest of us) will wait longer to see Paradise Lost in cinema.

Budgetary problems scuttle epic.

Variety.

New Angels, Humans & Demons in Alex Proyas' Legendary Paradise Lost

Variety reports Casey Afleck.
Huffington Post on Adam & Eve.
Bradley Cooper is cast as Lucifer & Benjamin Walker is the Archangel Michael.

Benjamin Walker Leads New American Psycho Musical Workshop

Benjamin Walker, star of the recent Broadway musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and of the upcoming 20th Century Fox movie Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and cast in the Legendary Films movie of John Milton's Paradise Lost, lead the Duncan Sheik/Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa musical workshop and private showing of the American Psycho story originally written by B. E. Ellis.

Article in the NYT.

Article in BroadwayWorld.com

Benjamin Walker lead the Sheik/Aguirre workshop of the critically acclaimed Spring Awakening several seasons ago.

Bradley Cooper, Benjamin Walker, Djimon Hounsou, Johnny Milton in "Paradise Lost"

Djimon Hounsou is the latest actor cast in the upcoming Paradise Lost epic from Legendary Pictures. Joining Bradley Cooper, Lucifer, and Benjamin Walker, the archangel Michael, Hounsou is cast as Abdiel, the Angel of Death.

Filming in Sydney, John Milton's Paradise Lost is a motion/performance capture 2D/3D/4D extravangaza that could take 100 weeks to finish.

Paradise Lost is directed by Alex Proyas and is from Legendary Pictures.

Benjamin Walker in Paradise Lost Movie?

Benjamin Walker set for the Archangel Michael in silver treatment of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost. Entertainment Weekly, HuffPo, The Audition Report.