Having gotten his start as a singer and then cutting his acting teeth on Mexican TV, Diego Boneta is now in the midst of a healthy Hollywood career surge. Hot on the heels on him scoring the lead in movie musical adaptation Rock of Ages comes the news that Alex Proyas has picked him to play Adam in Paradise Lost.
From the looks of it, Proyas is now going full speed ahead with the Paradise casting, as just yesterday he hired Dominic Purcell to play Moloch.
The film will, of course, adapt John Milton’s epic poem, with the action-orientated take focusing on the battle between fallen angel Lucifer (Bradley Cooper) and archangel Michael (Benjamin Walker, soon to be seen in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter).
Part of the spark for the war in Heaven revolves around God’s creation of Adam and Eve (Camilla Belle), the biblical first humans who found themselves tempted by knowledge and ultimately banished from the Garden of Eden.
With Casey Affleck, Callan McAuliffe and Djimon Hounsou also making up the numbers in the ensemble, Proyas will get the cameras cranking in January.