2011, though, this version of Paradise Lost pressed on. Whatever shortcomings existed in the motion-capture technology circa. Cooper’s unambiguous note that his Lucifer character would’ve looked exactly like him makes one shudder to imagine a Wagnerian Paradise Lost adaptation, complete with a stirring score and evocative cinematography, all told with dead-eye humans who look like they wandered off from a PlayStation 3 cutscene. When it’s used to just realize digital version of human beings, like in The Polar Express or Mars Needs Moms, it can be a nightmare.
This technology works best when applied to fantastical creatures like Gollum from Lord of the Rings. While motion-capture worked well for the Na’vi in Avatar, that was because they weren’t meant to look like people you’d run into on the street. In hindsight, this might be the most potentially troubling part of this aborted version of Paradise Lost. Coming less than two years after Avatar employed motion capture to realize the Na'vi aliens, it's easy to imagine Legendary seeing Paradise Lost as having the potential to follow in the footsteps of James Cameron’s VFX magnum opus. Otherworldly angels would be realized not just through live-action actors putting on satin white robes and plucking harps, but rather through rendering them as fully-digital creations. In addition to Cooper noting that his passion for Paradise Lost dated back to his studies at Georgetown, this interview also made it apparent that the film would be told with motion capture technology. Everyone involved was committed to delivering a direct adaptation of the source material, not something straining to be a “hip” reinvention. He also made sure to emphasize that, despite Proyas having a background in directing movies like I, Robot, this was not going to be a science-fiction reimagining of Paradise Lost. In a July 2011 Entertainment Weekly interview, Cooper noted that he’d been pursuing the part for three years, which suggests that his interest in Paradise Lost predates even the involvement of Proyas. In 2011, the next big development for the project came when Bradley Cooper, fresh off his work in The Hangover, got cast as the film’s lead, Lucifer.
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