Friday, July 22, 2011

Paradise Lost

fall into your lap after all the success you’ve had this year?

BRADLEY COOPER: The absolute opposite of falling into my lap. I must have met with the director five times. I’d been vying for that role for three years. And then I actually put myself on tape unsolicited in my kitchen, just so he’d look at it. [ Laughs ] Not much has changed.

Alex Proyas has done big sci-fi films like I Robot and Dark City . So is this sort of a sci-fi take on Milton’s poem?

It’s not a sci-fi take on Paradise Lost — it is Paradise Lost . It’s a cinematic adaptation of Milton’s poem with motion capture. That technology is evolving exponentially by the minute, so where they were when they did Avatar as opposed to where they are now is almost different worlds. I just did the whole fitting for the motion-capture helmet that you wear, and we start shooting at the end of October in Sydney, Australia. I’m very excited.

So what appealed to you about playing Lucifer?

I loved studying that poem at Georgetown. I just fell in love with that character. Satan is kind of the guy you agree with — I don’t know if you agree with him, but you understand his argument and he’s very compelling. Hopefully we’ll be able to maintain the integrity of that.

What’s your Lucifer going to look like onscreen?

I think he’s going to look like me. I don’t know what that says about how satanic I look but, yes, it will be me. [ Laughs ]

It’s also been reported you’re attached to director Doug Liman’s sci-fi film  Luna . Is that right?

No, that’s an IMDB creation. It’s like The Flash — I read I was going to be in The Flash and I called my agent and he was like, “No, bro, you’re not going to be in The Flash .”  [ Laughs ]

Then there’s the rumored remake of The Crow you’re supposedly going to star in. What’s the status of that?

I don’t know the status of that. It’s something I really loved, but we’ll see about that.

And where do things stand with  The Hangover Part III ?

Whenever Todd [Phillips] says, I’m in.

Zach Galifianakis said in an interview recently that the plot may have to do with his character, Alan, being in a mental hospital and the rest of the Wolfpack breaking him out.

You know what? That might be right.

Really? A lot of people assumed that he was joking, and Warner Bros. has said there are no real plans for the movie yet.

I mean, I have no idea. But that sounds good. [ Laughs ]

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