When bad news becomes even worse, where can it go next? How about an abortion of a name for the “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark”
Really? Fucking really? "Turn Off The Dark"? What does that even mean? What emo teen won the contest to name this stupid thing? Will Spider-man be fighting an evil lightswitch? Or does it take place in a Hot Topic store? That's the nail in the coffin of any possible goodwill riding on the names of director Julie Taymor (The Lion King) and U2's Bono and The Edge, who provide the music and lyrics.
Producers hope they will have an amazing run beginning with previews on Jan. 16, 2010, and a Feb. 18, 2010, opening night. They won't. The $40 million effort - reportedly the most expensive Broadway production ever, will make its debut in the Hilton Theatre, the only venue big enough to allow the superhero room to spin his way around the sprawling skyscraper sets while duking it out with various bad guys. Yes, that's a huge toilet for this giant turd. According to a previous report, the show would have to run 8,000 years just to break even. I was going to do the math to verify that claim, but then I was like, “Nah”. But for an artist like Julie Taymor, clearly this isn’t about the money. It’s been truly a labor of love. The love of getting washed-up rockstars to write uninspired songs about a movie that came out 10 years ago.
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