Julie Taymor & SPIDER-MAN Producers Fail to Reach Settlement

The SPIDER-MAN court battle continues, as the legal proceedings between show producers and fired director Julie Taymor have now lasted seven months. According to the New York Times, federal Judge Katherine B. Forrest has 'expressed frustration that an agreement had not been completed in spite of the parties' coming to terms in principle in August.'

An insider told NYT: "The judge is pretty fed up. For months we've all been saying we're a week or two away from a deal, but it still hasn't happened." It remains unclear why a settlement has not yet been reached.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the lawsuit she filed against the SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK producers claimed that they 'violated her creative rights and haven't compensated her for the work she put into the musical.' Taymor, who was let go as director of the show in March 2011, also filed a claim in June that she never receivEd Royalties from the production and was only paid $125,000 when the project was launching five years ago.

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SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark features direction by Philip William McKinley (The Boy From Oz), original direction by Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor (The Lion King, Across The Universe, Frida), music and lyrics by 22-time Grammy Award-winners Bono and The Edge, and book co-written by Taymor, Glen Berger (Underneath The Lintel) and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Fantastic Four and Spider-Man comics, "Big Love").

Inspired by nearly 50 years of Marvel comic books, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark follows the story of teenager Peter Parker, whose unremarkable life is turned upside-down when he's bitten by a genetically altered spider and wakes up the next morning clinging to his bedroom ceiling. This bullied science-geek suddenly endowed with incredible powers soon learns, however, that with great power comes great responsibility as villains put both his physical strength and strength of character to the test.