Tuesday, Jan. 12 2010 @ 2:00PM
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This comes one fucking day after Spider-Man 4 was canceled and the Spidey movie universe got rebooted. Coincidence?The New York Post reports that Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the most expensive show in Broadway history, is set to open this fall, months past its original date of March.
The ambitious musical, directed by The Lion King's Julie
Taymor and scored by Bono and the Edge, was derailed in August by "cash-flow obstacles" that led producers to halt production while they sought more money for a budget that had ballooned from $35 million. In November,Bono's longtime business partner Michael Cohl was brought onboard to put the show back on track.According to the Post's Michael Riedel, Disney is providing "a chunk" of the financing.
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mia said:
fuck
this
shit
WetOREO said:
I love how you post a picture of Mephisto whenever some "bad news" for Spidey comes up. It makes me laugh...and then makes me sad because of how the Spidey comics got ruined.
RunnerX13 said:
Ugh, just when I thought it was safe walk down Broadway.
Quixotico said:
It's on!
It's off!
It's on!
It's off!
It's on!
It's off!
Welcome to another production of OCD Theatre!
Sonya said:
I can't wait to see this just to finally see if it's going to be ok or going to be as horrible as I imagine.
And I say this as a U2 fan (Darn it, The Edge! Stop letting Bono talk you into things!).
Listy said:
Well...the names attached to the musical are pretty good ones. I don't know what to think about that.
But as for Tobey stepping away from Spiderman, all I can can say is good, because it will give him time to focus on that Robotech movie he's supposed to be working on.
And, because Spiderman 3 sucked.
The Man With Two Brains replied to Listy:
No. No they aren't. U2 USED to be a good band back in the 80s and EARLY 90s, but have turned to shit.
Sonya replied to The Man With Two Brains:
Says you. U2 are still better than the majority of bands out right now.
JKW3000 said:
You remember when Joel Schumacher kind of raped Batman? I feel like we're about to hit that phase in Spider-Man, except, you know, we know better now.
Sigh. I can only pray that when the dust has settled, a Chris Nolan-type director will reboot it all again to clean up the ensuing mess that is both the new "gritty" Spider-Man and the Spider-Man musical. Till then, this decade just began and it already sucks to be a Spidey fan.
The CineManiac said:
Hasn't this been back on for a couple of months?
EW had an article that featured the new Peter Parker from the musical back in Dec.
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20320382_9,00.html
Oh and he does not look like Peter Parker to me.
Whoever replied to The CineManiac:
OhdearLord!
Kaoy replied to The CineManiac:
There are not enough 40ft poles in existence to put the right amount of distance between me and this reality.
Bill said:
*shakes fist in the air*
Damn you Mephisto!
The Great A'tuin said:
Is that Count Chocula? /stupidquestion
flipper baby replied to The Great A'tuin:
No, it's Mephisto. To be distinguished from MacPhisto.
BoredLizzie said:
Disney has made the Spider-Man musical financially possible, and Mephisto has devoured the souls of all parties involved so that they will feel no remorse as this abomination is unleashed upon humanity. I always suspected that Satan and Disney were working together. At least Peter Parker is accustomed to singing & dancing for attention after Spider-Man 3.
Ramone said:
Honestly, I kinda want to see it now. I never did before, but anything that's got as many lives as Spidey the Musical serves to pique my curiosity.
demoncat said:
this just proves that if some hollywood exec can not run the spider man franchise into the ground one way like spider man four they will try it another way for with the musical the spider man cockroach that refuses to die. another doing by mephistoe to screw spider man fans.
Scortia said:
Lawl stupid Mephisto.
I have no desire to see this musical. Making a superhero work for Broadway is already an ambitious endeavor, but Peter? He's your everyman. He's not full of depth and anguish, unless they plan on snapping Gwen Stacey's neck on stage every night.
I predict Tarzan... just a bunch of fancy swinging and probably less compelling. Plus, ugh Bono.
rickicker said:
goddammit, haven't we learned anything from "It's A Bird, It's A Plane"?!! seriously, what the finkle is going on? why is it being a spidey fan is starting to blow as hard as being a batman fan circa joel schumacher? is there some kind of mephisto invasion plan from Earth-616 to Earth-1218 that we should know abo-BBZZZT CRACKLE ZZZZZZZZZThelp me!!BZZZZZZT CRACKLE BZZZZZZZZZZZZT
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SIGNAL LOST
Pointy said:
Wow, god is taking a big dump on me today.
Steven said:
As a nerd who loves Broadway musicals, I can assure you that I, along with my fellow nerdy musical lovers, will never see Spider Man the musical.
Super King said:
"a budget that had ballooned from $35 million."
Wha?!?
That's crazy.
Slightly off topic, I hope Sony hires 'ComicsNix to write the screenplay for the new spiderman movie.
