All Is Lost

Producer Martin Poll is getting a $30-35 million indie feature film adaptation of John Milton's classic 17th century poem "Paradise Lost" off the ground says The Hollywood Reporter.

The project will go head to head with plans to adapt 'Lost' as a big-budget actioner.

The classic poem deals with Satan's fall from grace, his temptation of Adam and Eve and the first couple's subsequent banishment from the Garden of Eden.



Poll has been planning a film version of 'Lost' since the late 60's and developed a script with the late John Collier. That script was published in 1973 and Poll has maintained the option to it over the years. The acclaimed Arthur Penn wrote the most recent version.

This version could enter production as early as this Summer--with casting underway. A director search is being conducted as well

Scott Derrickson is attached to direct the rival "more commercial" project.