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Spider-Man Hits All the Wrong Notes with Guy Branum & Jessica McKenna | 3

The Big Flop

CHAPTER

Visual Palette and Tragic Setback

This chapter explores the director's strengths in visual aesthetics, while suggesting the need for a layered story. It also discusses the comparison to the stage version of Lion King and the role of producer Tony Adams, who tragically passes away before securing The Edge's contract.

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Speaker 2
And of course, she has such a deep and rich visual palette and language that's like one of her great strengths. But it would have been so much more exciting to watch it like layered with a story we know because I don't know. She did that with Lion King. There's a few additional songs in the stage version, but it's essentially the same story. I mean, I appreciate that, you know, you don't want to just rinse and repeat, but she obviously knows how to do that. Yeah. Isn't Lion King actually the biggest Broadway hit of all time? So she gave you the biggest hit and she gave you the biggest swap. Even if she gave you something in the middle, it'd still be huge by Broadway standards.
Speaker 1
I mean, there was one person capable of saying no to Julie Taimor, the producer Tony Adams. He was Marvel's guy and he was there from the very inception of this show. He produced the Tony award winning musical Victor Victoria and also a bunch of Pink Panther movies. He was personally involved in getting you to sign. So there was this three year stretch between talking about it, getting everyone to agree in theory and actually signing folks like Bono and The Edge. So he went over to the Edge's apartment to finally get him to sign on the dotted line and Tony Adams dies. Oh, whoa. Oh
Speaker 2
my gosh. Here is the edge talking
Speaker 1
about it on 60 minutes. I left the room to literally go and get a pen to sign the contract and I came back in the room and he had gone into some kind of seizure.
Speaker 2
Oh my. You know,
Speaker 1
so that's horrible and there's nothing funny about it, right?

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