Variety is reporting (and E! Online, too, for free) that Marvel Comics has teamed up with producer Tony Adams to turn the Spider-Man franchise into a musical. Sources told Variety that the planned project would bring Julie Taymor, of Broadway’s “The Lion King,” on board to direct; Neil Jordan would write the script; and U2’s The Edge and Bono would create the music. (Be still, my heart!)
Will it happen? No comment from any of the rumored players (of course). If the project did get off the ground, though, there’s no guarantee it would be successful; E! wonders whether such a musical would be an enduring hit of Annie proportions — or a Saturday Night Fever-scale flop. Hmmm. I wonder if Tobey Maguire can dance.
Spider-Man… The Musical? That’s just 5 kinds of wrong. What can you really DO with that, aside from lots of wire work?
Okay. We have musicals framed around the collected works of ABBA. We have another created around Billy Joel. I think it would be quite interesting to see what they come up with for a Spidey musical.
And I somehow doubt Tobey Maguire can dance.