Was the robotic design done to reference the original Gort?
Yes – the robotic physical design was absolutely done to reference the original Gort. I wanted to touch on Paradise Lost just a little bit, because I’ve heard about it and I was very curious, since I know it’s based on Milton’s poem — is it going to be set in modern times or how is it going to work? Derrickson: No, it’s not going to be set– there is no time in Paradise Lost. It’s sort of pre-time, and it is the beginning of human civilization. It’s Milton and Milton — I’ll say this much — that I don’t want to make it feel like a medieval movie. Lord of the Rings was written with medieval sensibilities, and Peter Jackson, I think, succeeded in turning that into cinema by making a movie that really felt like it was set in medieval times with these fantastical elements. And I’m going to try to do Paradise Lost in a way that’s not modern or futuristic or sci-fi or anything like that, but is not rooted in, certainly not in medieval weaponry and technology and that kind of thing. Because it
