He had wondered why it had never been made into a movie before and then found out the James Cameron and Leonardo DiCaprio had been interested in making it before Cameron got sidetracked with Avatar. He’s not trying to adapt just any book though he’s trying to adapt one of the greatest science fiction series of all time, the Hyperion Cantos.ĭuring a press junket for his new movie The Words, Cooper talked about working on the Hyperionscript.Ĭooper says he doesn’t consider himself a writer, but loved the story so much that he wanted to make the project happen after reading the book. Bradley Cooper, star of The Hangover and heartthrob to middle-aged women everywhere, is joining in this time honored Hollywood tradition by attempting to write a screenplay adapted from a book.
It seems like every other day you hear about an actor or director that decides that they want to change things up in their career by taking on a new job that they’ve never done before, usually because they get the chance to work on a well known property that they love. The Day The Earth Stood Still director Scott Derrickson was previously linked to a film adaptation of the series for Warner Bros, but the movie was never greenlit.Hyperion by Dan Simmons better be done well or someone will have to pay. The 1989 novel from author Dan Simmons follows a planet called Hyperion that houses powerful artifacts known as Time Tombs, which are guarded by a mysterious antihero called Shrike. So now we're negotiating to write the script for it."Ĭooper also said that although he is keen to move into directing, it's unlikely that he will do so with Hyperion, simply due to the scale of the project. "I said, 'I know this is a very audacious endeavour, but can you just read this spec we wrote? I think we have a way in to tell the story'. "My friend and I went to Graham King, who owns the rights to Hyperion, and we wrote a treatment on spec. "This is an example of trying to get things started," Cooper revealed during an appearance on Charlie Rose this week. Bradley Cooper has revealed that he is working on an adaptation of the popular science fiction series Hyperion.Ĭooper, star of new comedy The Hangover Part II, has said that he recently submitted a spec script to Graham King Productions.
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