Well, sounds like a fairly decent idea if we’re talking about the Alex Proyas of The Crow and Dark City and NOT of things like I, Robot.
Even if it is his top game, i still doubt it will be good.
“Alex Proyas is signed to direct a 3-D action picture based on the war between archangels Michael and Lucifer.”
That’s….so….wrong….
Wait…shit… I wanted to direct Paradise Lost, dammit! GAH!!! X(
Savvy
I thought somebody already made Legion .
Ohhh, Alex Proyas. Definitely one of those directors that almost requires a smaller budget and major on-set tragedy to make a good movie, ‘cause elsewhys he’s left open to do any random thing he likes. Thing is, even I, Robot has some unmentioned and underrated CGI that at the time of its release was yet another step forward (this was back when CGI looked like plastic anyway, so he made supposed-to-look-plastic characters even more emotive than not-supposed-to-look-plastic CGI creations of the time), something he had been pushing with practically every film he made (turning The Matrix set into a melting mindscape in Dark City , resurrecting Brandon Lee from the dead in The Crow —in more ways than one).
Thing is, if he’s actually directing Paradise Lost it is one of those situations where he could completely pull it off—it would be overwrought, melodramatic, geeky, unlike the text, and strange, but wonderfully so on all counts. However, just an angelic war movie in general? Meh. As I said, somebody already made Legion.
Zach: who cares what some other director does, if you want to do it, do it. Ridley Scott is revamping the Alien franchise but I still aim to make the fifth Alien movie in the current canon whether he likes it or not (yeah, I know, I have no chance… but I’m going to do it anyway, because I feel like it).
—PolarisDiB
Would Paradise Lost even translate well to film? Normally I’d say no, but I think it might.
-Would Paradise Lost even translate well to film?-
Not unless they can shoot it in blank verse rather than 3-D.
I was initially pretty skeptical, but you know, if someone is going to try this, why not Proyas? He misses way more than he hits in my opinion, but at least he’s willing to give it his all.
I agree with you about him working better under a smaller budget, Polaris. Knowing was a complete mess of a movie, partially because it tried to emulate big-budget disaster flicks when it would have been perfectly fine as slightly longer Outer Limits episode.
Jack Hemingway
“Alex Proyas is signed to direct a 3-D action picture based on the war between archangels Michael and Lucifer.”
-wiki
thoughts?