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Milton’s Paradise Lost Adapted

by Administrator on November 12th, 2005

Paradise Lost


And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom’s gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
Where no ill seems.
- Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 686.

John Milton must be nervously twitching in his grave at the news that his classic poem Paradise Lost, has been picked up by Hollywood for conversion in the basest sense. It’s easy to see how a work of literature that tells the story of Lucifer’s failed rebellion and Adam and Eve’s fall from grace would appeal to the movie set, but the adaptation of the 1667 work could prove tricky.

The ten book epic has been picked up by Hyde Park Entertainment in cooperation with Vincent Newman Entertainment. According to Newman Paradise Lost is “[i]n its embodiment of ancient literature and mythology…a timeless story of the human quest for meaning,”

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