Julie Taymor is a crazy person and I mean that in the best possible way. The woman who once made The Lion King not only tolerable but pretty damn great as a Broadway musical is headed back to the big stage and on the receiving end of her hyper-visual style this time is ... Spider-Man?
Yup. While Taymor has become famous for her big screen adaptations of live stage classics by William Shakespeare - Titus and The Tempest - she's bringing everybody's favorite radioactive teen to live theater with Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.
The opening date has been pushed back slightly on this due to an actor injury but things are still moving ahead and this month's edition of Vogue features the first images from Taymor's latest as shot by Annie Leibovitz. Featured in the shots are Spider-Man, Peter Parker, Mary Jane, The Green Goblin, Carnage and a new villain (or at least new to me) called Swiss Miss. Taymor's distinctive style is obvious in every scrap of every shot and I am suddenly more than a little bit tempted to take a trip to New York just to see this all in action once it opens. Check the images below.
Yup. While Taymor has become famous for her big screen adaptations of live stage classics by William Shakespeare - Titus and The Tempest - she's bringing everybody's favorite radioactive teen to live theater with Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.
The opening date has been pushed back slightly on this due to an actor injury but things are still moving ahead and this month's edition of Vogue features the first images from Taymor's latest as shot by Annie Leibovitz. Featured in the shots are Spider-Man, Peter Parker, Mary Jane, The Green Goblin, Carnage and a new villain (or at least new to me) called Swiss Miss. Taymor's distinctive style is obvious in every scrap of every shot and I am suddenly more than a little bit tempted to take a trip to New York just to see this all in action once it opens. Check the images below.