The having many many problems Spider-Man musical just fired director Julie Taymor and is about to go on a 4-6 week hiatus, its 6th delay in the last two years, and also it literally exploded and 4,000 stunt doubles were killed.
In other less expected news, the troubled production — which is currently nine billion Spideybucks over budget (they switched to made-up money when they ran out of actual dollars seven months ago) — also allegedly tried to hire Aaron Sorkin to fix it:
I also hear the producers approached Aaron Sorkin, who won the screenwriting Oscar for “The Social Network,” about lending his name to the production. He wouldn’t have to write much — the producers were going to hire a team of comic-book writers to do that — but he has such cachet that if he were associated with the show, critics would have to give it a second look.
Sorkin, who’s not exactly short of a buck, was amused, but passed.
Sorkin added, “I’m flattered but I told you, I can’t write dead stunt doubles back to life. If you’d like Spider-Man and MJ to have an unreasonably fast discussion that displays wit beyond their means and situation, then give me a ca–AHHHHH!!!”
Sorkin then fell 35 feet from the flimsy scaffolding on which this meeting was conducted, suffering major bruises. The 6-week production hiatus has since been delayed.
