The more I hear about the upcoming Paradise Lost project, the more I fall in love with it. To start off with, it’s going to be helmed by Alex Proyas, the awesome director who brought us the brilliant and visually awesome I, Robot.
And every time we’re given more news about the cast, it just gets better and better. Back in May, we got the very interesting news that Bradley Cooper, best known for The Hangover (both parts) and this year’s surprise success Limitless, would be playing Lucifer, and the rising star Benjamin Walker (the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) would be playing the archangel Michael.
The brilliant Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond) was then announced as playing Abdiel, the angel of death, who’ll be battling against Cooper. And most recently came the excellent news that Casey Affleck would also be given a set of wings to play the angel Gabriel, in a role I cannot wait to see.
We’ve now got the awesome news via Collider that Prison Break’s Dominic Purcell will be playing,
“Jerahmeel, an angel who is rechristened as Moloch when he falls in step with Lucifer’s rebellion against Heaven.”
Purcell has been relatively absent from both the big and small screen since Prison Break finished two years ago, but looks to be making a strong return with roles in this year’s Killer Elite alongside Jason Statham and Robert De Niro and the upcoming remake of Straw Dogs, due out here on 4th November this year. I personally loved Purcell in Prison Break, and can’t wait to see him taking on the role of Lucifer’s right-hand man. It’ll be good to see him on the wrong side of the law again, but this time undoubtedly showing off more of his brute strength, being voluntarily on the wrong side.
Proyas has said of the film,
“Were going to make an incredible epic film about the Devil’s fall from grace and the Archangel Michael. Adam and Eve play heavily in it as well. This film couldn’t have been made a few years ago. In fact, we’re not even sure we can make it now. But we’re gonna try.”
So it sounds like it’s going to focus on some aspects of John Milton’s original epic poem and push others a little to the side, for what should be a visually brilliant film. We got a little look at some concept art for Cooper’s Lucifer at Comic Con in the summer, and it looked pretty damn awesome. And to refresh your memories, I thought it would be good to embed it below. Doesn’t it look so brilliantly evil?
