Ohhh wow, I finally read farther into the wiki article. What a great story!

• In 1989, guitarist Pete Townshend, from the rock band The Who, released a rock opera adaptation, The Iron Man: A Musical.
• (Americans) changed the title to The Iron Giant, and internal mentions of the metal man changed to iron giant, to avoid confusion with the Marvel Comics character Iron Man.
• "Hogarth, a local boy, lures the Iron Man to the trap...."
  But from there, all resemblance to the movie ends.
• The stand-off sounds stupendous!
• the dragon reveals that he is a peaceful "star spirit" ... In his own life, he was a singer of the "music of the spheres"; the harmony of his kind that keeps the cosmos in balance in stable equilibrium.
  @crescendoofpeace, this is the kind of story you'd know all about. :)