For Serious: Epic Poem 'Paradise Lost' Coming To Screen As 3D Action Blockbuster

Remember Schwarzenegger's Hamlet and how funny it seemed at the time? I think someone took the wrong lesson from it, as Variety is reporting that Alex Proyas has signed on to direct a version of Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic poem describing the fall of Man and Lucifer's desire to corrupt God's creation. Will it be a sensitive treatment of what is acknowledged to be among the most beautiful works in the English language? Fuck no! Variety says the project "will be crafted as an action vehicle that will include aerial warfare, possibly shot in 3D."
 
After EA's Dante's Inferno, I suppose it's no surprise that someone would want to tap more epic poetry for big, dumb entertainment projects, and I have to say that the thought of a huge battle between angels and demons might make for some interesting visuals, but still - ugh. Whatever happened to the Alex Proyas I used to know? You made The Crow and Dark City, but then you went on to make I, Robot and Knowing. The dude's early work clearly display imagination; someone needs to inject him with some Aronofsky juice so that we might see some of that again.