Bradley Cooper Hyperion Bradley Cooper Hyperion. Cooper to turn screenplay writer. Actor Bradley Cooper is all set to turn a screenplay writer, as he is putting together a script for a big screen adaptation of a science fiction book series. "There's this series of science-fiction novels called 'Hyperion' by Dan Simmons... My friend and I went to 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 which to tell this story'," dailystar quoted him as saying. "So now we're negotiating and... who knows what's going to happen? Ideally I'd love to direct it (but) 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...