New York: Hangover star Bradley Cooper is set to star in the big screen adaptation of John Milton’s 17th century epic religious poem Paradise Lost, in which he will play the role of Lucifer.
Paradise Lost, that seems like the realest one. That’s happening,” Cooper said.
The 36-year-old feels lucky to be an actor as he gets to play so many characters but says his ultimate goal would be to become a screenwriter.
Before he can begin working on that film he will start shooting for Derek Ciafrance’s crime drama, ‘The Place Beyond The Pines’, in which he plays a rookie cop, alongside Ryan Gosling.
“I’m just up here prepping. We’ve just been sort of hanging out with all the cops here and going on ride along and it’s been incredible.
“It’s pretty intense, it’s definitely pretty intense. I’m very lucky to be able to do stuff like this. I was really just saying to my mother this morning, I’m like the luckiest guy in the world to be an actor, to be able to go into these others persons’ professions and be able to walk in their shoes, so it’s incredible,” Cooper said.
The actor also confirmed that he had sealed a deal to deliver his first major script.
“We’re adapting a series of novels by Dan Simmons called ‘Hyperion’. It’s one of the greatest things ever written, basically. “It’s just the most incredible story, my friend and I really wanted to see it visually in film. We wrote a treatment, Graham King has the rights to Hyperion. So they liked it enough to pay us to write it, so we’re going to give it a shot,” he said. (PTI)
