Brian Bendis, Replacing Neil Jordan on Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark

The Substack PRO e-newsletter for Brian Bendis, Jinxworld, has added a brand new unique sequence with the introduction of Fortune & Glory: The Musical, a brand new weekly authentic comedian, a sequel to Bendis’ authentic graphic novel about coping with Hollywood. Bendis states “Fortune and Glory was a graphic novel I did years ago, pre-Marvel, about my first adventures in Hollywood as a young independent comic book creator. It was one of the books that got me where I am. I always wanted to do a sequel. Many of you have asked for one over the years. I loved doing an autobiographical comic book. I always thought I would do another one, or a bunch of them, but Spider-Man kept getting in the way. 🙂 ” Jinxworld on Substack prices $5 a month, $50 a yr, with premium ranges or $250 a yr, together with a Jinxworld message board.

Created by Brian Bendis and Bill Walko, with colors by Wes Dzioba and lettering by Josh Reed to sort out the occasions behind the scenes of the pre-production of Broadway musical  Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Bendis’ beforehand unknown position within the manufacturing. Benid says “I never thought I would have stories crazier than the ones I told in the original Fortune and Glory. Everything happening to me in comics was fun and fun to talk about, but was it autobiography-worthy? Then I got called to be the writer of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, a now notorious infamous Broadway musical that you can Google about right now. The story I’m about to tell you happened years before the show’s debut. Only my closest pals knew any of this happened at the time. I’ve only hinted at parts of this in past interviews. Now, it gives me a GREAT excuse to go down memory lane and share my favorite moments of coming up in comics with you.”

Brian Michael Bendis says “Years ago I did an autobiographical graphic novel called Fortune and Glory. It was about my earliest adventures in Hollywood as an independent comics creator. I neeeeever thought I would have crazier stories to tell. Then I got a call to write the now infamous Spider-Man Broadway musical. It didn’t go great. This is that story… A lot of the stories in this GN mean everything to me. They are the most defining moments in my life. A lot of them happened before the Internet, so there’s not a lot of archive about this time in our lives and in comics. I know a lot of people reading these newsletters are creators and writers themselves. I hope my journey, and my pain, brings you some personal solace. If anyone reading this had anything to do with Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, I hope reading this brings you some peace knowing that someone somewhere was trying to stop it from happening years prior. “

In the midst of the success of Brian Michael Bendis’s run on Ultimate Spider-Man, and the brand new Spider-Man movies, the author obtained a cellphone name from Marvel Studios President Avi Arad, that Spider-Man was going to Broadway, and Brian Bendis was being tapped by director Julie Taymor to collaborate with Bono and The Edge to put in writing the guide for the play.

Bendis confirms “I am also very happy to report to you that this entire graphic novel is completed. Bill, Wes, Dan and I have been working on this aaaaaall year. Ever since we got the call from Substack. In fact, now that we’re done with the graphic novel, I am putting the excellent Bill to work on some extra chapters. I have more material about comics that I thought you would enjoy, but doesn’t really fit into the narrative of this Fortune and Glory. So, by the time you’re done with this graphic novel, we’re gonna have a couple extra chapters for you with some surprising revelations.”

Fortune & Glory: The Musical will likely be out there solely to subscribers of Bendis’s Jinxworld e-newsletter, which as well as presents subscribers a multi-media Creation, which builds upon the teachings taught in his best-selling textbook, Words and Pictures, and The Masterclass, a twice-monthly Zoom class taught by Bendis , alongside occasional visitor lecturers and extra. But Brian Bendis and Substack have given Bleeding Cool a bunch extra pages, without spending a dime, than you’ll have seen elsewhere, ten pages from the primary fifteen-page chapter. Including the revelation that Bendis was to have changed author Neil Jordan of An Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game and The Borgias in that regard. Apparently, based on the director, the author of Ultimate Spider-Man was the one one who acquired the character, and Bendis seized his likelihood.

Additionally, the unique Fortune & Glory returns in an all-new version from Dark Horse Comics on the fifth of April with an introduction from Paul Dini in addition to a wealth of promotional artwork and interviews straight from Bendis’ archives, written and drawn by Bendis and colored by Matthew Wilson.

Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is a well-known Broadway flop for all method of causes. Bendis mustn’t have been stunned concerning the name,  Marvel’s authentic method to theatrical producers Tony Adams and David Garfinkle and their firm Hallo Production in 2003 for a Spider-Man musical about Spider-Man included the help that it’s primarily based upon Ultimate Spider-Man #1-7, in addition to Amazing Fantasy #15. It was they who approached Neil Jordan and U2. The Edge steered Julie Taymor as a director, and it was together with her appointment that Jordan walked, that Naymor would write the guide, and the remedy was duly authorized by Hello, Bono and the Edge.

We knew that Taymor employed Glen Berger as co-writer, however that the play has strict controls over content material from Marvel, giving the comedian guide studio approval rights over all method of particulars relating to the portrayal of Spider-Man on the stage. And Marvel rejected Taymor’s remedy (see beneath), objecting to the tone of the play, far too darkish, grownup and sexual, in addition to seeing Peter Parker being raped, Aunt May being murdered, J Jonah Jameson having his head bitten off and the addition of a brand new Big Bad for Marvel, Arachne, slightly than one among Spider-Man’s rogues gallery.

The manufacturing firm and Marvel agreed that a lot of their demanded adjustments might wait till rehearsals or previews, in order that Marvel representatives might see how the present would seem on the stage and, after additional monetary and technical points, the play was carried out and, sure, Marvel nonetheless wished these adjustments made, the director refused to make them, so the producers rewrote the present behind her again.

Marvel EIC and CCO Joe Quesada was introduced in for feedback, and Marvel author and stage author and producer, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, later to be showrunner/creator of the TV sequence Riverdale was employed to rewrite the play, however rewrites weren’t enacted by Taymor. Eventually, Taymor was fired and changed with Philip Wm. McKinley, and he or she sued. The present would limp on till it immediately was no extra in January 2014, with estimated losses of $60 million.

And now we get to see extra of Brian Bendis’ involvement from his personal perspective… the graphic novel will likely be serialised weekly for the primary couple of weeks, after which Bendis will shift it to biweekly to make room for Creation and the Masterclass content material. New subscribers to his Substack may even get entry to earlier Jinxworld materials, together with the Masterclass movies and extra.

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