Last week, U2 previewed music from the the upcoming Spider-Man musical (Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark) on Good Morning America. The video is embedded above, playing after a 30-second advertisement–a nice counterpoint to our Spider-Man versus H. P. Lovecraft coverage last week.
What do you think? Will this musical swing or crash?
The science fiction blog io9 wrote a bitter post about the upcoming musical: “It’s much, much worse than we’d feared. Did you know if you fly too high, you can get too close to the sun? … That’s star Reeve Carney singing ‘Boy Falls From The Sky,’ with his band, Carney. He seems like a great singer, and has the right amount of emo charisma to play a singing Peter Parker — but the song? Yeesh. This is making Rent look like an all-time classic.”