From Terminator to Captain Nemo to...Spring Awakening?

Dammit if McG hasn't turned a 180 on his directing career where it was five years ago. His Terminator: Salvation is set to be one of the biggest films of the summer and he's already up to his eyeballs in pre-production on Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo with filming slated to start later this fall.

Now, he's attached to direct and produce a silver-screen adaptation of the Broadway "rock musical" Spring Awakening. The musical which centers around a set of 19th Century German teenagers "discovering their sexuality and dealing with high-wire topics like masturbation, abortion, rape and suicide" has the potential to be one of those "Hot-topic" films that stuggles to get made.

However with McG's career as hot as it is at the moment (and assuming that Salvation and Nemo turn a nice sizeable profit at the box-office), it wouldn't be hard to imagine him finding a studio willing to pony up the cash to properly make the film.