{"id":462135,"date":"2026-04-30T21:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/462135\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:58:30","slug":"avary-planning-an-ai-paradise-lost-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/462135\/","title":{"rendered":"Avary Planning An AI &#8220;Paradise Lost&#8221; Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/avary-planning-an-ai-paradise-lost-film.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/avary-planning-an-ai-paradise-lost-film.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"avary-planning-an-ai-paradise-lost-film\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oscar-winning \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d co-writer and \u201cThe Rules of Attraction\u201d director Roger Avary has been set to write and direct a feature film version of John Milton\u2019s Biblical epic poem \u201cParadise Lost\u201d for Ex Machina Studios.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Weber (Igby Goes Down) is producing, and veteran production designer Kirk Petruccelli is executive producing the film for the AI-oriented production company according to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/roger-avary-direct-biblical-paradise-lost-ai-production-1236875688\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to use the company\u2019s proprietary AI to allow for \u201cexpansive worlds to be realised at a responsible budget while preserving the primacy of real actors, human-authored narratives, and guild-aligned production practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trade describes the film as \u201cthe ultimate faith-based heroic saga,\u201d and a synopsis reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA cosmic war in the heavens where the charismatic, rebellious archangel Lucifer defies God, is hurled into the abyss of Hell, and vows revenge on all creation.<\/p>\n<p>From the fiery lake of damnation, Lucifer rises as Satan to seduce humanity\u2019s first parents, Adam and Eve, in the flawless Garden of Eden, triggering the Fall of Man and the loss of Paradise itself. <\/p>\n<p>At its core, Paradise Lost asks the question every generation must answer: When faced with reckoning and crisis, do we obey, rebel, or redeem?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Various attempts to adapt the iconic 1667 work have been made over the years, one of the most famous being one that filmmaker Alex Proyas was developing with Bradley Cooper set to star as Lucifer.<\/p>\n<p>No word on casting or production dates for this yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar-winning \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d co-writer and \u201cThe Rules of Attraction\u201d director Roger Avary has been set to write and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,97273,18,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-462135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-bigslider","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116495902763902779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}