Former Broadway 'Spider-Man' director served with countersuit

It seems Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark just can’t catch a break.

First there were all the injuries on set, and now Business Week is reporting the show’s former director was served a breach of contract countersuit by the show’s producers.

The producers claim that Julie Taymor, who also directed the successful Broadway adaptation of Disney’s The Lion King, failed to produce a family-friendly show and instead put on a “dark, disjointed and hallucinogenic musical involving suicide, sex and death."

According to NJ.com, the show’s lead producers, Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris, believe Taymor shouldn’t receive any royalties from the show because the two had to hire new creators who developed a new concept for the production.

In November, Taymor filed her own lawsuit in which she claimed that about a quarter of the current Spider-Man ideas were hers and that she is entitled to some of the show’s earnings.

She also writes that she was working on revisions at the time she was fired, which contradicts Cohl and Harris’s statements that Taymor refused to make any changes.

The two also cite an email a colleague sent them, which states that Taymor threatened to quit if the colleague brought up the revision ideas he had for the show.

Even U2’s Bono, who helped compose the score for the show, is quoted in the email saying that Taymor was “shooting ideas down before taking time to understand them.”

If only Spider Man was an actual person, he’d know how to solve this.