Musical News

Singing Spidey will Dance Across Broadway Sooner than Expected

I don't know what to make of this. It's Spider-Man the Musical, a pretty ridiculous premise, but it's a U2 and Julie Taymor collaboration. Who is the target audience? Musical theatre fans? Marvel fans? Women who liked the movies?

This isn't the first time they've tried to bring a superhero to the stage. There was a scary awful Superman musical, "It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman!", that flopped in the 70s. And there was an aborted Batman show as long ago as 2004. However, is this really stranger than many of the movie-based musicals based on as of lately?

Still, Bono and Taymor! And if the webslinging is done well, it could be pretty neat.

(I think that Evan Rachel Wood would make a better Black Cat than Mary Jane. She wouldn't have to wear a wig, even!)

Saints Be Praised. Sam Jackson is Nick Fury!

In a bizarre example of art imitating life imitating art, Samuel L. Jackson, the only man that anyone would ever want to play Nick Fury from Marvel Comics, is indeed playing Nick Fury in the Iron Man movie.

If you weren't already intreiged with the miscasting that somehow works of Robert Downey Jr. (instead of Scotchity-Scotch-Scotch, will it be Cokity-Coke-Coke?), this is enough to make me see it. The badassness will positively ooze off the screen.

Oh, and for the record, Jackson has so far played a Jedi, a Tarantino hitman, a supervillain, Shaft, and now a superhero. Squee!