Spider-Man musical no more?

Supposedly, the Spider-Man Musical's runaway costs have done it in and the project will be abandoned. If true, it's a tragedy, and hard to believe in light of how strict Marvel's apparently been with costs on movies like Iron Man 2. It doesn't even sound like the design has gotten very far along: "'A lot of it seems to exist only in Julie's head,' one source says."

Fortunately, I was able to dig up some concept art from the project:




Via Kevin Melrose, who came up with an excellent image to illustrate the story.

*Previously: Alice in Wonderland opera.

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