Jim Sturgess, star of the upcoming card counting pseudo hiest flick 21 was recently interviewed over on Cinematical and in part of the chat they tangented into a bit about Spiderman the Musical and Spiderman 4.
We just did two weeks, and we kind of hung out with Bono and the Edge and sung songs about Spider-Man. As a young actor and musician, it was an incredible experience to be involved in that.”
He continued, “We then sort of did a rough performance of the play — like a read through where we sang through the songs and stuff. As ridiculous as it sounds, it’s going to be an incredible piece of work.” Cinematical asked Sturgess whether that meant he would be starring in the musical, to which he replied: “Um, I don’t know. I haven’t spoken to Julie since, and I don’t know when she plans to do it. It’s a timing thing, I guess. I don’t know how long it’s going to be before it comes to the surface.”
Relative silverscreen newcomer yet TV vet, Jim looks to have been punching his card and working his way up the hard way. Clearly he has enough biz cred to have been brought in to even rough draft the role of Spidey for the stage musical, and sit in with Bono and the Edge. I still think it is silly to have Spiderman made into a musical, but stranger conversions have happened so I reserve judgement.
Though he denied seeing himself in the tights to replace Tobey in Spiderman 4, he does have that edgy geeky charm that might make a slightly more matured Peter Parker work well. I always held true that putting a big star in Spidey’s pj’s would make the movie weird, but now that I picture it, Sturgess could fit the bill perfectly.
Would you hate the idea of Sturgess as your friendly neighbourhood Spiderman? On stage or the big screen?
