Benjamin Walker in talks to play Archangel Michael in PARADISE LOST

Benjamin Walker is currently in talks to play Archangel Michael in Alex Proyas' Paradise Lost for Legendary Pictures. Deadline reports that the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter may star in the adaptation of John Milton's 17th-century English poem "about the epic war in heaven between Archangels Michael and Lucifer."Bradley Cooper is set to play Lucifer in the film.

Paradise Lost is scheduled for release in 2013 and is set to go into production in Sydney early next year, likely shooting in 3D. Stuart Hazeldine, Byron Willinger, Philip de Blasi, Lawrence Kasdan and Ryan Condal wrote the script. The film is said to include "three major battle sequence; one in Heaven, one in Hell and one Eden."

Walker has also starred in Kinsey and Flags of Our Fathers. I am looking forward to Vampire Hunter. This sounds like ann interesting film. What are your thoughts on this casting news?