Man, Bono from U2 comes across so bloody pretentious in this U2Place.com clip about Julie Taymor’s upcoming “Spiderman Turn Off The Dark” musical.
“We were open to the idea of musical theater,” Bono says in measured, trying to import gravitas tenor. “But ‘Spiderman,’ [pause for affect] that’s a different thing again, because that’s comic books, which has a whole series of relationships between punk rock and comic books, that goes back years. but to mess with all these different aspects of pop culture and put ’em in a blender and see what comes out…”
“Every rock n’ roll star probably started out as the geek who was bullied in school and eventually there form of revenge was to right songs…” says The Edge, trying desperately to make some sort of correlation or parallel between rockers and Peter Parker yet without bringing up any Spider-Man example (his revenge was accidentally being bit by a radio active spider and then turning into crime fighter? Yeah, that fratboys are pissed at that one).
All signs point to this ending badly, but perhaps it’ll have train wreck delights. Evan Rachel Wood is still supposed to star as Mary Jane Parker, but no official start date seems to have been set yet, though last we heard Feb 2010 was the start date, which may have changed by now.