EXCLUSIVE: Eight-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper is launching a new production banner with Weston Middleton, Deadline has learned. At the same time, the duo are set to produce Hyperion based on the four-volume series of Dan Simmons novels, a project which Cooper has had long in the works. Hyperion now moves over from SyFy Channel to Warner Bros. motion pictures with Oscar winner Graham King still attached to produce under his GK Films.