…in “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”

• Alice Cooper is in negotiations to play the Green Goblin.
  I kid you not.
  The $85 million musical, which hasn’t returned one penny to its investors — including The Edge, an idiot for putting his own money in the show — is trying to hang on by casting a washed-up rock star to keep itself going through the dead months of January and February.
  It won’t work — but what a great idea!
  Alice Cooper. The Godfather of Shock Rock. A singer who used to have people’s heads chopped off in his act is going to join a show in which a chorus kid had his foot chopped off.

The critic who wrote this is obviously not a fan. That being said, while I don't really have any interest in seeing this regardless of who plays Green Goblin, I think casting Cooper would be kind of neat.

Jack Nicholson was an unconventional choice to play the Joker, but it worked and gave the movie an edge.

But I doubt it would have gotten one tenth of the box office it did, if it had been a musical.


A Spider-man musical? What the hell are they thinking?

But yeah. It WOUL:D be cool for Alice Cooper to play Green Goblin.


Alice Cooper has been in at least 2 other movies I'm aware of: Wayne's World and the recent Dark Shadows movie by Tim Burton. Both very fun.

Not really. IIRC, when they first started floating the idea of a Batman movie in the 80s Jack's name came up all the time for the Joker. Not only was he one of the biggest movie stars of the era, but he was known for "Cuckoos Nest," "the Shining," "the Witches of Eastwick" and other films where he played a grinning maniac.

Yeah, he wasn't the long, lanky, Joker of the comic books but considering the previous Joker was Cesar Romero with his painted over mustache Jack seemed like a big step up in any analysis.

What are you talking about. Keaton was unconventional as Batman, but Nicholson was universally accepted as being a perfect choice for Joker prior to the films release.

As for the writer of the article. Since when is Alice "washed up"?
He continues to release successful albums, do arena tours round the world, appears in movies from time to time and has his own radio show.
Yep, sure sounds washed up to me. Twat.

Nowie gets defensive when anyone talks about his heroes.

You misspelled herpes.

Prince of Darkness.