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Hounsou joins 'Paradise Lost'
By Adnan Tezer Aug 23, 2011, 18:32 GMT
Djimon Hounsou has joined the cast of Legendary Pictures' "Paradise Lost," an adaptation of the epic 17th-century English poem by John Milton.
According to Variety, Warner Bros. will distribute the film worldwide in late 2013.
Shooting will take place in Sydney, Australia.
Bradley Cooper and Ben Walker have already been cast.
Australian director Alex Proyas ("Dark City," "Knowing," "I, Robot" and "The Crow") will direct with the special-effects heavy film likely being shot in 3D.
Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni will produce along with Vincent Newman and Proyas.
Stuart Hazeldine wrote the main draft of the screenplay that was originally written by Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi. Lawrence Kasdan and Ryan Condal also did separate polishes.
The film will take the frame of an action film, telling the story of the epic war in heaven between archangels Michael (Walker) and Lucifer (Cooper).
Hounsou will play Abdiel, the angel of death.
He was last seen in 2010's "The Tempest."
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