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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5055316" data-attributes="member: 177">Wait!  Wait!  It gets better...Spidey 4 is dead.  There' be a new Spider Man movie...But there's also going to be a Broadway musical!  Written by Bono and The Edge, and with Alan Cumming playing the Green Goblin!  Staging by Julie Taymor (who else?). I am not making this up!"“Spider-Man, Turn off the Dark,” the $50 million Broadway musical by Bono and The Edge, is back on – but not until fall 2010.The show, the most expensive in Broadway history, was supposed to open in March at the Hilton Theater. It ran aground when David Garfinkle, its inexperienced and inept lead producer, failed to come with the money.Bono’s longtime business partner, Michael Cohl, stepped in to clean up the mess.The financing is now in place, with a chunk coming from Disney, which recently acquired Marvel Comics.The show will likely begin previews in September and open in November, sources told The Post."Read more: <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/spider_man_turn_off_the_dark_7vqDyzbHWJBKx2nVbTmioM#ixzz0cRjszhrN" target="_blank">'Spider-Man' back on Broadway - NYPOST.com</a></blockquote>