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General => Entertainment => Movies => Topic started by: daigong on April 17, 2007, 02:50:34 AM
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Edward Norton has been set by Marvel Studios to play Bruce Banner in “The Incredible Hulk.” The Louis Leterrier-directed drama will be distributed by Universal Pictures, with an opening set for June 13, 2008.
SOURCE: Variety.com (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117963139.html?categoryid=13&cs=1)
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omg..this is going to be a comedy of the extreme :wahaha:
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yea, the hulk is a lost cause now. they cant even revive it and make it good like batman begins anymore
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I love Edward Norton!! (strictly in a non-gay way!!) Why are you guys shocked?? Almost sounds like you expected them to find a big green guy to act in the movie.
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^I was expecting a big green guy.:(
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"The 3rd rule of Fight Club is don't make Tyler Durden angry. You won't like him when he's angry."
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another huilk movie?! Whats next another punisher sequel?!
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Edward Norton is my favorite actor but I'm still not too excited about this... lol
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hmm.not to sure about him fitting the role.
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He's playing Bruce Banner... a scientist...he's not scientist looking enough for people?
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so Brad Pitt's gonna be in the Hulk role for this one just like in Fight Club?
(Pitt's gonna be the raging Hulk Id to Norton's timid Bruce Banner Ego) ?
sweet.
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Uhh... I hoped they'd understood leave Hulk alone. The first movie was awful, and I doubt the second one could do any good for Norton nor Hulk.
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Maybe they're trying to redeem the last one? I'm not gonna judge it until it's out. And come one, Norton as Banner is a good fit, add some nice CGI and suddenly he's the Hulk.
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That's kinda crazy they're already remaking the movie, yeah the first wasn't all too great. I think Edward Norton could be a good fit for the part of Bruce Banner, the one thing that does irk me about that article though is the director, if he's the guy that did transporter 2 I'm a little skeptical now. I loved transporter 1 and had high hopes for part 2, but all it turned into was another version of the movie 'xXx' with no story all action, I'm just hoping they don't mess this new Hulk movie up like that.
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i dont know if i shall laugh or cry... anyway it don't really care
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another huilk movie?! Whats next another punisher sequel?!
well yep its being made already as we speak ;)
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This movie isn't a sequel. They're making it as if the first movie never existed. It's an attempt at doing Hulk justice, as the first movie was horrid. Think of it like Batman Begins but for Hulk.
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I do like Edward Norton but he has been involved in some strange movies before (see blonde Norton in Red Dragon for more details XD) I hope it'll be better than the other movie!
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This movie isn't a sequel. They're making it as if the first movie never existed. It's an attempt at doing Hulk justice, as the first movie was horrid. Think of it like Batman Begins but for Hulk.
I think they should have waited a bit more before making remakes. People still remember how awful the Hulk movie was. And everything cool and new was already seen in the first movie, it was just so poorly done. So is there point making a remake already?
Besides, The first two Batman movies were good actually, they spoiled the series afterwards.
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The best guy to play the Hulk so far is still the guy who played Bruce Banner in the TV series during the 70s, I think his name was Bill Bixby. The series itself was pretty average like all the other TV shows of that era like The A Team and such. He's still the only one that can say, "Don't make me angry. You won't like when I'm angry." >:D
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I really like Eric Bana
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why did they get rid of the eric bana (is that his name) i thought he played a good hulk. Don't get me wrong norton is a talented actor so it won't hurt the film. I heard they're gonna make hte hulk smaller, i hope that's not true, i liked seeing him at like 10 feet tall
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I'm surprised you guys haven't picked up on the fact that Liv Tyler will play Betty Ross!
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Haha that's hilarious! They failed at the first remake so they're having another shot at it? So soon??? How seriously lame! Well at least Edward Norton will give it some credibility. They did a good job convincing him into doing it.
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I'm surprised you guys haven't picked up on the fact that Liv Tyler will play Betty Ross!
Guess I was in too much shock!! LOVE Liv Tyler!!! :w00t:
Apparently...William Hurt & Tim Roth are also part of the cast:
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"Roth would play Emil Blonsky, a vicious mercenary who turns into the Abomination, a gamma-spawned being stronger than the Hulk. Louis Leterrier is directing..."
SOURCE: http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN1331197420070613?feedType=RSS
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I'm surprised you guys haven't picked up on the fact that Liv Tyler will play Betty Ross!
Guess I was in too much shock!! LOVE Liv Tyler!!! :w00t:
Apparently...William Hurt & Tim Roth are also part of the cast:
(http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/9924/abomination12bc8.jpg)
"Roth would play Emil Blonsky, a vicious mercenary who turns into the Abomination, a gamma-spawned being stronger than the Hulk. Louis Leterrier is directing..."
SOURCE: http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN1331197420070613?feedType=RSS
Cool. More action this time with the remake.
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I still can't believe that as shitty the first Hulk movie was, it's getting a so good sounding sequel so soon!
Tim Roth and John Hurt.... They can't fail me!
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The creative team was at Comic-Con to unveil the new Hulk design (http://youtube.com/watch?v=15YeV8QNPFM)
And details are revealed here (http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/809/809006p1.html)
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http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1583143&vid=215625 teaser trailer
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Not a big fan of comic books -> movies, but this shit looks good!!
Edward Norton and Tim Roth going head-to-head.. Hell yeah!!
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WTF another HULK movie? dammit imo the first one was crap... i hate most of comic based movies but since someone mentioned Liv Tyler <3... plus it can´t bew worst like the first one (unless it´s called daredevil)
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I wanna see the Hulk talk. HULK SMASH! ROAAAAAAAHHHHH!
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Dang! They filmed it in Toronto!!! I wish i could be an extra in a movie one time. Haha, the fight at the end of the trailer is on Yonge Street. You can see the Zanzibar Strip Club =P
I kinda dont' like how the Hulk looks... But it looks action packed, so thats awesome.
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/theincrediblehulk/large.html new trailer.
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Saw the new trailor when I watched Iron Man(which was awesome btw)
This new one looks awesome, I actually want to watch it this time :lol:
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Wait... Why are they making another one?
Is it a sequel to the last one or something?
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They're trying to make a good one this time :lol:
I don't think it's a sequel, looks more like a completely new movie since all the characters and stuff are different people.
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All I know is that Edward Norton has a sexy voice. OHOHOHOHO
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All I know is that Edward Norton has a sexy voice. OHOHOHOHO
Ooh, amen. And I don't know, I guess I'm just one of those girls who don't rave and die over Eric Bana for some reason.
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[youtube=425,350]0ixxM8tNScw[/youtube] [youtube=425,350]ZmYIdzgvOgo[/youtube] amazing
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Gotta admit that using a police car as boxing gloves is kinda cool. Tim Roth as matrix-jumping badass isn't. :(
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Check this trailer out, Tony Stark is in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOq0BD_Eiig
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[youtube=425,350]ne3YC339myg[/youtube] :)
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I watched it earlier and it was pretty good. Not Iron Man good (almost) but definitely a whole lot better than the Hulk movie a few years back. Hulk Smash!
Not so spoiler:
There will most likely be another Hulk movie coz another villain was in the works in this one (The Leader)
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Saw it and LOVED IT! Edward Norton :heart: :heart: :heart:
I can't even say it's 'better' than the 2003 one, because the previous one looks crap when compared to this. Omfg, Tony Stark at the end!!
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Spoilers?
ey, i heard there's a cool thing at the end of the credits, re: Captain America
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nothing at the end credits. My friend just lied to us to make us stay and wait. Jerk, haha
It was a good movie. I liked it. Lots of action. He's supposed to be an uncontrollable menace though, and isn't supposed to have feelings n shit, isn't he? He was ruthless tho, choking the shit out of the guy! Awesome.
I loved the cameos =) It was filmed in T.O, so there was the news lady from city pulse i think, and the guy from Street Eats. The fight in the park was filmed at U of T. It was funny seeing the Zanzibar strip club beside the "Apollo" theatre.
Tony Stark is cool. Avengers, baby!
HULK SMASH! That was awesome.
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Saw the movie on Friday and I enjoyed it almost as much as Ironman. The story was kinda average but the action scenes more than made up for the lack of story. The Hulk vs. Abomination fight was fucking :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:
Needless to say that The Incredible Hulk smashes Ang Lee's bullshit ass version XD
Omfg, Tony Stark at the end!!
Word, that was one of my favorite scenes. Tony is the man! :pimp:
The Incredible Hulk: The Truth About Edward Norton vs. Marvel
Okay, you’ve heard the rumors of the behind-the-scenes battle between Marvel and star Edward Norton over The Incredible Hulk. I’ve been getting a lot of emails asking me to explain what exactly happened. Here is what I know/have heard or gathered:
Edward Norton turned down the project when he was first approached but Marvel insisted that he meet with director Louis Leterrier, and Norton relented. At the meeting Norton offered his version of The Hulk story, and Marvel agreed to hire a screenwriter to work with him on a rewrite of Zak Penn’s draft. But no screenwriter was ever hired and Norton did a substantial page-one rewrite by himself. Anne Thompson explains: “With about two months to go before the movie started filming, Norton did a page one rewrite–knowing that he couldn’t do anything radical, because sets were being built, locations found, etc. The entire Brazil sequence was already story-boarded.” Norton added a lot of dialogue and character motivation, and Marvel agreed to shoot Norton’s draft of the screenplay.
After production was completed, Leterrier put together “an assembly” of the film, which basically included everything that was shot. The director explained to Collider: “It’s called a suicide run because it’s absolutely horrible. You want to commit suicide after you see it.”
Marvel decided they wanted make a shorter, more action-packed cut of the film, discarding a lot of the character development pieces that Norton had brought to the screenplay.
“So after this we had a meeting—just like this—like a round table where I go okay we have to find solutions. And then we were screaming stuff and everything. Maybe somebody walked in, a PA or somebody walked in, somebody who’s not used to it and we’re having a conversation and Edward was like…no, Edward’s very vocal.”
Norton was understandably pissed. He was brought onto the project under the premise that he would have considerable creative control. But the final cut was, of course, not his. Norton and Leterrier lobbied for a more nuanced cut of the film that ran about two hours and 15-20 minutes, but Marvel stuck to their guns.
“Everyone was exhausted; it was like a little burst. ‘’I’m angry with you!’’ ‘’No, I’m angry with you!’’ And me in the center saying ‘’Boys, calm down.’’ It didn’t come to blows. It was just a remark here and there, then it became public,” Leterrier told EW.
Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily ran the story on the Norton/Marvel blow up.
“The next day when the Nikki Finke…Nicky Fink or whatever her name is…article came out, Edward was right next to me. He’s like ‘you want to laugh?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, what’s up?’ ‘Read this’.”
A day later, Norton even showed up to do ADR work on the film. Leterrier told Collider that 70 minutes of deleted footage is set to be released on the inevitable Bluray release. (Leterrier describes the out-takes: “It’s like the back story. It’s more the sequel to the Ang Lee movie.”)
“I regret that [Marvel and Norton] didn’t come to an agreement where we could’ve all worked together,” Leterrier explained to Entertainment Weekly. “The press is what kept Edward and Marvel from talking to each other. [The argument] was nothing, but then it became something big.”
Norton’s script opened with a suicide scene in the Arctic. While the scene added a lot of depth to Norton’s character, giving you a greater understanding of just how much he wanted to get rid of his curse. I’ve heard that the scene is included in the video game adaptation. A couple reasons why Marvel may have exorcized the scene from the final cut:
1. It added an extra five minutes to the beginning of the film, and in effect pushed the first appearance of The Hulk to page 26/27 of the script (or about a half hour into the actual film). Hollywood’s reasoning is that with a movie titled “The Incredible Hulk”, mainstream audiences want to see Te Hulk as soon as possible. I tend to disagree. I think that one of the reasons Richard Donnor’s Superman is so great is for it’s extended origin story. It builds to the first climactic moment when you see Christopher Reeves in the Red and Blue suit. And lets not forget Jaws…
2. It undermines the moment that Penn wrote where Bruce Banner jumps out of the helicopter, not knowing if he would survive. The risk was removed from that scene.
3. Suicide is less accessible and not family friendly.
Norton’s flashback sequences were also cut from the film, including a sequence with Banner having a sit down conversation with a Doc Samson, which can be seen in the trailers. The storyline with Banner finding a serum in the Amazon and his computer conversations with Mr. Blue (Tim Blake Nelson) were some of Norton’s storyline additions that remained in the final cut.
Marvel submitted both Zak Penn’s and Edward Norton’s (under a pseudonym, Edward Harrison) drafts to the Writers’ Guild for arbitration. Penn also wrote a letter to the WGA insisting that Norton had not considerably changed his screenplay. Members of the Guild follow a formula for determining the credits. An original writer must contribute at least one-third of the final screenplay to receive credit. If subsequent writers labor on an original screenplay as script doctors, they must contribute more than half of the final screenplay to receive credit. The Guild compares the final cut of the film against both drafts, favoring story and characters over dialogue. And as I said before, most of Norton’s changes were dialogue driven. The conclusion was that Penn would get sole screenplay credit. Zak Penn’s original script was also said to include two pivotal scenes from his 16-year-old screenplay attempt: Bruce Banner jumping out of a helicopter, and the scene where Banner tries to get intimate with Betty, but his rising heart rate becomes an issue.
Edward Norton released the following statement to Entertainment Weekly:
“Like so many people I’ve loved the story of The Hulk since I was a kid, so it was thrilling when Marvel asked me to write and help produce an altogether new screen incarnation, as well as play Bruce Banner. I grew up reading Marvel Comics and always loved the mythic dimension and contemporary themes in the stories, and I’m proud of the script I wrote. In every phase of production, including the editing, working with Louis Leterrier has been wonderful…I’ve never had a better partner, and the collaboration with all the rest of the creative team has been terrific. Every good movie gets forged through collaboration, and different ideas among people who are all committed and respect the validity of each other’s opinions is the heart of filmmaking. Regrettably, our healthy process, which is and should be a private matter, was misrepresented publicly as a ‘dispute,’ seized on by people looking for a good story, and has been distorted to such a degree that it risks distracting from the film itself, which Marvel, Universal and I refuse to let happen. It has always been my firm conviction that films should speak for themselves and that knowing too much about how they are made diminishes the magic of watching them. All of us believe The Incredible Hulk will excite old fans and create new ones and be a huge hit…our focus has always been to deliver the Hulk that people have been waiting for and keep the worldwide love affair with the big green guy going strong.”
EW’s sources say Norton, worried about being unfairly branded “a pain in the ass” by the press, conceded to Marvel’s cut, which even though it wasn’t what he wanted, he understood would be more commercial.
Edward Norton is supporting the film, and doing select press. Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson and Louis Leterrier have contract stipulations for two sequels, if Marvel wanted to bring them back. Norton’s contract doesn’t have any such stipulations. Even if a sequel isn’t greenlit, The Hulk will return in the upcoming Superhero team-up film The Avengers. However, I’d be shocked if Norton returned to reprise the role of Bruce Banner.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/06/14/the-truth-about-edward-norton-vs-marvel/
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He's supposed to be an uncontrollable menace though, and isn't supposed to have feelings n shit, isn't he?
well I wouldn't say that. Just like how Bruce Banner has inner conflicts with the Hulk, the Hulk is the same way with Banner as his feelings will sometimes come out. I always thought that's what one of the qualities that makes you love the Hulk and not just make you think he's some stupid big green guy.
Still haven't seen it, so can't say anything about it. But sounds like it would have been so much better without the commercialization of it. :/ If they haven't noticed all the recent great comic based movies had some kind of build up and background before the actual "hero" appears, and imo it worked great for all of them... I hate how the perception of what American audiences 'want' to see can make a movie not as good, but it is partly true what they think. >_> Stupid Americans...
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I watched the new Hulk today. Like Iron Man, Hulk too was a positive surprise. Everything was better than in Ang Lee's version.
However, Hulk as a character is still kinda boring. He's just too invincible. Just like Superman.
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Lotteria, a fast food hamburger chain in Japan, is about to bring out themed fried potato for the Hulk & Iron Man releases...
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Hulk -> Avocado Mayonnaise
Iron Man -> Hot Chili Bean
Which one to try first?!?! :drool:
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Avocado mayo?
That sounds interesting, I'd like to try that since I love me some avocado. :drool:
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I enjoyed this more than Iron Man~ guess it was the fighting scenes ..... :mon dunno:
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I've seen it twice already :sweatdrop: I LOVED this movie, I think it's one of my favorite hero movies to date!
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'Incredible Hulk' unlikely to get sequel
Marvel's latest comic book film The Incredible Hulk is unlikely to get a sequel, says Reuters. The Louis Leterrier-directed movie has so far grossed similar box office numbers to Ang Lee's Hulk, which was considered a commercial flop on its 2003 release.
Despite taking a more action-oriented approach to the character, The Incredible Hulk has accumulated $125 million at the US box office after a month on release. Its predecessor finished its theatre run with $132 million. A Marvel insider said: "We're happy with the financial results, even if they [only] reach the first film's levels. Having a sequel is not the definition of success."
However, David Davis of entertainment analyst Arpeggio Partners claimed that the new film could be considered a success due to low expectations. "Hollywood is always about perception," he noted. "The first Hulk had such high expectations after the NBC-Universal merger and was supposed to be critical-favourite Ang Lee's breakout commercial blockbuster.
"Then with the new Hulk film, Marvel was able to underplay the importance of the success after the great success of Iron Man this summer. So the new one overdelivered, relative to its underpromise."
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a109020/incredible-hulk-unlikely-to-get-sequel.html