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Saturday
07Nov2009

Director Julie Taymor Unveils Broadway's Spider-Man

DateSaturday, November 7, 2009 at 12:06AM
It will not be Jim Sturgess slinging webs on Broadway in the new comic book musical Spider-Man Turn of the Dark. Instead, director Julie Taymor (Across the Universe) has hired another young actor she recently cast in a film version of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Reeve Carney will play Peter Parker to Evan Rachel Wood's Mary Jane Watson, and here's a look at the 26-year-old actor.

In addition to acting, Carney is the lead singer of a band that features his last name, and is the final piece of the puzzle to the 2010 Marvel musical, which will open at the Hilton Theatre in New York in a few months. “Having recently finished shooting The Tempest with Reeve as the young prince, I am thrilled to cast him in an entirely different role as Peter Parker in Spider-Man," Taymor said in a statement.

"When I first saw Reeve, he was performing with his terrific band Carney. The music of Bono and Edge requires an extraordinary talent— not only is Reeve a great rock and roll singer but his acting is equally fresh and authentic.”

And Carney, of course, had to get the stamp of approval from the legendary U2 members, who contributed the songs to Taymor's production. “Our ambition was to find a Peter Parker who could really act and sing, but who still brings a kind of performance that could be new to Broadway audiences," said Bono and The Edge (but probably Bono).

"We wanted something a little more authentically rock and roll. Reeve is everything we could have hoped for: An amazing voice and a truly charismatic presence.”

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