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Will someone please tell Bono that the Spider-Man musical is dead?
U2′s Bono and The Edge talked to the Guardian a while back about the Spider-Man musical.
“We don’t really like musicals,” the Edge said. “Most musicals are really pants. They’re really not very cool.” Instead, they suggest people use a much more cool term: opera. “It touches on opera, it touches on rock’n'roll … It is much more like opera than a straight musical.”
Julie Taymor will direct the Broadway show, to be called Turn Off the Dark. Bono and the Edge – though not the other two members of U2 – will provide lyrics and music.
“We made one rule for ourselves,” the Edge said. “That we would never have Spider-Man singing. A guy singing in tights can’t happen.” That’s not the case for love-interest Mary Jane, to be played by Evan Rachel Wood, or for the “extraordinary” – and as-yet unannounced – female villain. But even if Spider-Man might not be singing, it seems likely his alter ego, Peter Parker, will warble a rock aria or two. And yet theirs is not the typical Peter Parker, according to Bono. Parker “[is] not [quite] Kurt Cobain, but a kind of slacker, a more kind of shy sort of guy,” he said.
Heh, Kurt Cobain/Peter Parker? Uhm, I’m not following. Like, I don’t see the correlation. Can someone explain to them this, ’cause they seem to be terribly out of the loop. Though I am with them in the sense that musicals are “pants”. KTHXBYE.
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[...] and…hang on. Has Peter Parker even been cast? Somebody answer this quick! Also someone please explain to Bono why Kurt Cobain should not be uttered in the same sentence as Peter Parker! Back to Top Filed In: David Press, Marvel ComicsTags: Bono, spider-man: turn off the dark, U2 [...]