The big-budget adaptation of the John Milton poem Paradise Lost that would have starred Bradley Cooper has been shut down.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the budget was too big and special effects were too complex and expensive. The film would have had Cooper star alongside Djimon Hounsou, Casey Affleck, Benjamin Walker, Camilla Belle and Rufus Sewell.
The project had Alex Proyas set to direct, but with a budget of $120 million it was too much for the studio and now it's been shut down. Now Milton's epic poem will have to wait again to be made into a movie.
Legendary felt that to accurately show Milton's vision of the war between heaven and hell it needed to have special effects similar to those seen in Avatar. Executives discovered that the technology needed to get those effects just wasn't in the budget.
The studio has been trying to make more in-house financed projects instead of working with other financiers. Currently in production are Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim and the fantasy Seventh Son.
