"Terminator: Salvation" director McG to bring "Spring Awakening" to the big screen?

This is interesting news: Apparently action director McG (Charlie's Angels, Terminator: Salvation) is looking to bring the teen angstiest little rock opera that could to the big screen.
Yes, it's Spring Awakening: Full Throttle.
True, McG did get his start directing music videos and even co-wrote (and produced) music for Sugar Ray. (Note: I said "true", not ... well ... "good".) But how will his sensibilities translate to a musical based on a dusty old German cautionary tale about sex, abortion, rape, suicide and budding gay love? Will Moritz sing "I Don't Do Sadness" while jumping off a cliff on a flaming motorbike? Will Wendla advise Anna to "flip ... her god ... damned ... hair"?
Let's hope that, regardless of how many bullet-time sequences McG decides to add into the dance numbers, he leaves the play's gay couple intact (they share one of the more interesting love songs of the show), and that he casts some great actors to play Ernst and Hanschen (played by excellently-named out actor Gideon Glick and Jonathan B. Wright on Broadway).
Thoughts? Is this a match made in heaven, or will it be, to quote the show's most notable song, "Totally F*cked"?
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