Cooper Is "Hyper" Active

Bradley Cooper was on Charlie Rose last night, saying that he is in fact a Sci-fi geek, and has with the help of a friend adapted Dan Simmons's Hyperion.

Influenced by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the story follows a band of characters as they journey towards the distant planet of Hyperion in search of the demon-god known as The Shrike each of the seven characters tells their story in turn.

Cooper says " My friend and I went to [producer] Graham King, who owns the rights to Hyperion, and we wrote a treatment on spec saying, 'Look we know this is very audacious, but could you just read this spec we wrote? We think we have a way in to tell this story'. So now we're negotiating and... who knows what's going to happen? Ideally I'd love to direct it... there's no way! I shouldn't say that, you never know. This is a huge movie, this would be an epic movie. But at least we've taken the reins and said, we're going to go after it and now we're gonna write the script. At least we have a shot to write the script for Hyperion."

Hyperion has been in the pipline forever....With Cooper attached the project will likely move ahead.