U2 + Julie Taymor = Spider-Man, redux.

Playbill reports that an open casting call has gone out for the Spider-Man stage musical that Julie Taymor plans to direct from a score written by Bono and The Edge, of the band U2.

I can never think of Bono and The Edge working on franchises like this without thinking of the theme song that they wrote for the James Bond film GoldenEye (1995), so here is the music video for that song, performed as it was by Tina Turner:

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Now there’s a franchise that would make a great musical … or at least an interesting one … maybe … though it must be admitted that some critics are already complaining about Pierce Brosnan’s singing in Mamma Mia!, which opens this Friday.