Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark Getting Sued By Julie Taymor

Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark Getting Sued By Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor, director of Spider-Man: Turn off The Dark when it was still crap, is now suing the show for stealing her work.

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By Armageddon26 - Nov 08, 2011 02:11 PM EST
Filed Under: Spider-Man


Ex-Spider-Man Turn off The Dark director suing the broadway show for stealing her work.
Taymor is taking a new tact in an effort to claim profits from the show, alleging in her complaint that producers have continued to make use of her creative contributions. Producer Michael Cohl’s 8 Legged Productions is the defendant.

“Ms. Taymor regrets that the producers’ actions have left her no choice but to resort to legal recourse to protect her rights,” says her attorney, Charles Spada at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.


On top of that Julie is also asking $500,000 in royalties because of the time she was director, and for working on the show daily.


Personally it sounds as though Julie realized the show was actually successful and just wanted the cash, but I also have to agree with part of her reasoning. What do you think?
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greenlantern28141994
greenlantern28141994 - 11/8/2011, 2:19 PM
Bitch, you just angry cause after you left no one fricking DIED!
johnnysnow
johnnysnow - 11/8/2011, 2:37 PM
I've never known of anyone trying so hard to take credit for shit.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/8/2011, 2:43 PM
they should refund everyone who brought tickets for this shit.
StrangerX
StrangerX - 11/8/2011, 2:50 PM
LMAO @ Greenlantern
JULEZ13
JULEZ13 - 11/8/2011, 3:20 PM
Wow. smh
OverCross
OverCross - 11/8/2011, 5:00 PM
She's gonna be pretty mad when she realizes there's no money left.
Supes17
Supes17 - 11/8/2011, 7:21 PM
People actually went to see that shit?
Vinny1138
Vinny1138 - 11/8/2011, 9:21 PM
Honestly, It's a Really Fun Show.

But they made the right decision of Firing her. She clearly cannot write a proper coherent Superhero plot.
Tkiller
Tkiller - 11/8/2011, 9:25 PM
They have no money for you, genius!! They have no money at all. I have some news for you, Julie: Your crap was a total flop!
CarnageVenom
CarnageVenom - 11/9/2011, 5:36 AM
the entire idea of the show was a bad idea to begin with, the bitch should feel lucky she hasnt been sued yet
Moonwalker1991
Moonwalker1991 - 11/9/2011, 7:53 AM
I never wanted to see this shit anyway. If I wanted to watch Parker dance I'd watch Spiderman 3
AlexRival
AlexRival - 11/9/2011, 4:43 PM
@Moonwalker Sadly your words are too true.
HellScorpion
HellScorpion - 11/9/2011, 5:48 PM
"Was Still Crap"? When did it become good? Anyways if I was her, I distance myself from that...it'd be like Joel Schumacher turning down a chance to have all the blame for Batman & Robin placed at someone else...
Mrcool210
Mrcool210 - 11/9/2011, 7:10 PM
shes just butt hurt that they made it better when she left
Vinny1138
Vinny1138 - 11/9/2011, 8:24 PM
@HellScorpion When She was still in charge, the show's plot was a convoluted mess of simultaneous story lines all going on at once. One involving four teenagers writing their own fan fic comic book, the other of Spider-mans story within the teenagers story, and another involving some mythological back story about the goddess Arcane who gave spider-man his powers.

When she got Fired, they hired a playwright/comic book writer Roberto Aguirre Sacassa, who re-wrote the story as the standard boy gets spider bite, Boy becomes Superhero, Boy defeats Bad Guy.
Vinny1138
Vinny1138 - 11/9/2011, 8:32 PM
@CarnageVenom, Not if you take Musical out of the context. Most of the music is hit and miss, Their are some very good songs, and their are some that aren't that good.

But I'll bet if they just made it a stage show of story action scenes resembling a comic book, and not have any musical numbers at all, this would be an awesome kick ass Show.

Trust Me when I say that the show currently is no where near as awfully bad as it was when she had full creative control, which I knew was going to be confusing and pretentious as hell when it was first announced she was directing.
Sosa4693
Sosa4693 - 11/10/2011, 6:07 PM
the show was as, crappy music, shitty costumes
CyclopsWasRight
CyclopsWasRight - 11/12/2011, 12:39 PM
BITCH PLEASE.
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