What were you doing over the Easter holidays? Lazing around, hosting a BBQ or two, watching a Come Dine With Me marathon perhaps? Well, not McG – he spent the weekend entering into talks to direct and produce a movie version of the hit Broadway musical, Spring Awakening.
A relative newcomer on the musical scene, Spring Awakening has received high praise for its excellent songs and uncompromising storyline, in which a group of schoolboys in late nineteenth-century Germany discover their sexuality. The musical, based on Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play, touches on several controversial topics, such as masturbation, rape, abortion, and suicide. Just right for the director of Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.
We’re joking, of course. Terminator Salvation (and, before that, We Are Marshall) seems to have heralded a new, adult chapter in the career of the professional Steve McClaren look-a-like, and Spring Awakening looks set to continue that.
At the moment, no studio is attached, and indeed McG may bypass major studios in order to retain the Tony-winning musical’s edgier qualities.