Rufus Sewell is set to re-team with his DARK CITY director, Alex Proyas, for the latter’s blockbuster film version of PARADISE LOST, reports Variety. Sewell will play Samael, Lucifer’s (Bradley Cooper) partisan who urges him to start the rebellion in Heaven.
Sewell is no stranger to playing baddies; the actor has been a villain in everything from BLESS THE CHILD to A KNIGHT’S TALE to the upcoming ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER. (It’s worth nothing that Abe Lincoln himself, Benjamin Walker, is also in PARADISE LOST.)
Sewell joins a big cast that includes Cooper, Walker, Casey Affleck, Sam Reid, Djimon Hounsou, Diego Boneta, Callan McAuliffe and Camilla Belle. The screenplay was toiled over by no less than five writers, including Lawrence Kasdan, Stuart Hazeldine, Ryan Condal, Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi
Inspired by the epic 17th-century poem by John Milton,
PARADISE LOST tells the story of the epic war in heaven between archangels Michael and Lucifer, including the latter’s role in Adam and Eve’s fall from grace.
The film has an unspecified 2013 release date.
Camilla Belle
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