Just last week, in the aftermath of a Glee performance that evoked one of her films, I got to thinking about Julie Taymor.

I started thinking back to the fact that ACROSS THE UNIVERSE was one of the first films I wrote about on this site, and wondered how long her Broadway version of Spider-Man would keep her from directing another feature. Hollywood doesn’t have all that many directors with her sort of imaginative vision you see, so having her sidelined by an oft-delayed project sucks particularly hard.

Well, it would seem as though the wait is over – and she’s gone back to adapting Shakespeare…