Nightcrawler Actor Exits Spider-Man Musical - Broadway Production Dying a Slow Death (Thank GOD!)

Nightcrawler Actor Exits Spider-Man Musical - Broadway Production Dying a Slow Death (Thank GOD!)

Problems keep piling up for the still-in-limbo production of the massive new Julie Taymor-directed musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

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By ComicBookMovie - Apr 19, 2010 08:04 PM EST
Filed Under: Spider-Man

Although the troubled tuner, which features songs by U2's Bono and The Edge, still has its Peter Parker (Reeve Carney), the show has now lost both of its "name" stars. Following Evan Rachel Wood's departure comes the news that Alan Cumming is also out of the production. Cumming cited his busy schedule with the CBS drama The Good Wife as the reason for his inability to stay with the production to play Spiderman's nemesis, the Green Goblin. Spider-Man still has yet to set a date for its Broadway opening.
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Codeseven
Codeseven - 4/19/2010, 8:21 PM
good. this was doomed from the start!
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 4/19/2010, 8:21 PM
I think I can live with this never being made! Tell you what Marvel - save the money and put it towards making a decent Spider-Man movie rather than some teenage high school crap! :P

Guys, check out my ASSASSIN'S CREED II Fan Cast!!! Just click the link!!! :)
animeex
animeex - 4/19/2010, 8:49 PM
Maybe this is the Spider-Man High School Musical franchise. Doomed!
superdog
superdog - 4/19/2010, 9:03 PM
Dammit I'm going to new York in October for comiccon and was hoping to see this as well. Now I'll probably get dragged to some wicked bullshit.
astromerc
astromerc - 4/19/2010, 9:28 PM
This was dumb idea from the start good movies, comics,& video games. That's all spidey needs, that's all we need.
deraj36
deraj36 - 4/19/2010, 9:41 PM
eh I'd have liked to see how it would have turned out.

plus that dude very much looks like the green goblin. maybe not so much norman osborn, but definitely the green goblin.
ISleepNow
ISleepNow - 4/19/2010, 9:50 PM
Looks like Norm's gonna have to throw some more cash to the producers to keep this thing afloat..
ecksmanfan
ecksmanfan - 4/19/2010, 10:08 PM
This is failing? Really? I'm shocked and surprised!!!
moviemaker
moviemaker - 4/19/2010, 10:15 PM
NO!!!!!!!!!!!

Haha jk. I agree with JoshW, make a good Spidey movie, and PLEASE don't base it off the ultimate series
marz66
marz66 - 4/19/2010, 10:24 PM
hmm..It wasn't a good idea in the first place. Spidey don't dance,dammit! I was at universal studios some years back and they had some spiderman thing going on there.It was a musical..JEEZ.....just bad...very very bad.

thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 4/19/2010, 10:34 PM
glad this is dieing
blankofthedead
blankofthedead - 4/20/2010, 4:52 AM
i like plays, I was hoping to see this.. not all musicals involve dancing btw.. oh well it must not be too good if its got al this trouble though
Imran
Imran - 4/20/2010, 5:00 AM
No real loss although I would have liked to go and see it.
DarkWebs
DarkWebs - 4/20/2010, 5:34 AM
Spider-Man on broadway sounds gay anyway! can you imagine this on stage? It would tank real bad!!!
blankofthedead
blankofthedead - 4/20/2010, 6:10 AM
@websnclaws- not all broadways are bad.. the thought of spiderman as a play really doesnt seem bad at all to me. again not all plays are dancing around in tu tu's...
SraFisher
SraFisher - 4/20/2010, 6:15 AM
good cause i enjoy cummings as an actor but it would have lost major brownie points with me
Gwar
Gwar - 4/20/2010, 8:41 AM
I can't believe so many fans are totally closed minded to the idea of spider-man jumping into different forms of media. What better hero to be the center of the biggest Broadway Musical ever then the city's own web head. I know musicals aren't every ones favorite thing in the world, but to blindly bash it when a successful production like this would bring this genre to a whole different group of people and take it to even greater heights is kind of upsetting
HelaGood
HelaGood - 4/20/2010, 9:10 AM
damn. i wanted to see how bad this actually was too...
Pooh
Pooh - 4/20/2010, 11:37 AM
Alan Cumming hit the jackpot when they didn't sign him for X-Men 3. He's like the guy who played Tank in The Matrix and wasn't signed for the sequels. Lucky bastards.
IronMarvel
IronMarvel - 4/20/2010, 11:38 AM
hahahaha sucks. I loved the old franchise but an ultireboot might not be that bad.....
Nightwing09
Nightwing09 - 4/20/2010, 11:49 AM
THANK GOD
1chris2
1chris2 - 4/20/2010, 12:05 PM
maybe he will sign on for x-men 4,along with josh hollowell for gambit,daniel cudmore,shawn ashmore,james marsden,ben foster,anna paquin,halley berry,hugh jackman,patric stewart,vinnie jones,ian mcellan,robecca romane,leiv schreiber,and for the new cast topher grace for beak,and i would love to see sinister,apocalypse,chamber,husk,angel salvador,glob herman,anole,and some cameos from other new x-men,and generation-x mutants.also omega red needs to be in a x-men film,marrow,the real physloc,sauron,and a real version of the blob where he stands like nine feet tall and his mutation is his wieght not super punch.bring on x-men 4,first class,new x-men,generation-x,wolverine 2,and district-x.
theironspider125
theironspider125 - 4/20/2010, 12:47 PM
never should have been considered to begin with. whoever had the idea to make spider-man a play/musical was an idiot.
Pooh
Pooh - 4/21/2010, 11:26 PM
I think the wire-fighting scenes are actually pretty cool.
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