Call this deal “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Lawyers.”
Tony-winning director Julie Taymor and the producers of the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” have apparently untangled their sticky legal web and are set to settle a venomous suit over her 2011 ouster following the show’s disastrous previews, according to court papers filed late yesterday.
Terms of the agreement weren’t revealed, but in a letter to the judge, Taymor’s lawyer said that “all parties” were poised to sign a “fully drafted settlement” and that the Manhattan federal court case could likely be closed within a week.
Taymor’s lawyer, Charles Spada, said the agreement was tied to a separate licensing deal involving Marvel Entertainment.
Taymor sued the “Spider-Man” producers for $1 million-plus for breach of contract and copyright infringement, claiming much of her original script was plagiarized after she was booted.
Producers Michael Cohl and Jeremiah Harris bit back with a countersuit that accused Taymor of refusing their script input.