The long-gestating Spidey!: The Spider-Man Broadway Musical—words and music by U2, puppet-villains by Julie Taymor, early closing date by completely disinterested fanboy base—has secured Evan Rachel Wood to play Mary Jane Watson, IESB.net reports:

So who will be her PETER PARKER? Will it be Jim Sturgess, her Across the Universe co-star who has been long rumored (and the perfect fit)?

Wood said they are, "still trying to convince him."

They have their work cut out for them, as it will take a lot more than a midnight call from Bono pleading, "Yo Jim. Look, I don't know much. I'm just an Irish rock star frontin' the Biggest Band in the World, but believe me when I tell you brotha, when I wrote 'Spidey, Webby Spidey,' I only had your voice in mind. If you don't want to do it for me, do it for Africa" to do the trick.