RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media Hulk Sequel: Edward Norton to play Banner

The irony here is that it seems to me that one you have the SFX budget, the Hulk should be one of the easier comic book films to write and direct. It screams "Action Flick" better than perhaps any other comic book and you don't need to tell the origin beyond the credits (Hell, you could do an intro not unlike the old TV show, with Doc getting hit by gamma rays, morphing into the Hulk, etc.). Then, it's two hours of Hulk smashing, etc.

And then everyone would moan there is no story!
Fanboys are never happy!

you are not your fucking story.

STORY FUCKERS!

MTV.com has the full trailer.

Or you can just go to Youtube.

The MTV copy is much clearer.

rassist

You know, if Bruce Banner wasn't white, he wouldn't be in this position.

Well let him stand up, and stop trying to butt fuck him!

Looks like crap to me, but I cant stand Edward Norton.

I like Norton but I thought the CGI was shitty. Why can't they get this right?

i dont think his acting was CGI in that clip!

but seriously the Hulk in both movies looks like crap!

its cause rob is a banana queer

Because a CG person (and Hulk may be Green, but he's still a "person") in a live action movie is still harder than it looks. If you think of the best CG work in a live action film (Gollum, King Kong, Jurassic Park) its always a nonhuman. Conversely the best realized CG people are usually in all CG movies (Beowulf, for example). Either way, it stands out less than trying to put a completely CG human in a non CG movie.

If the producers were smart, what they'd have done was actually get a big guy like Lou Ferrigno, paint him up green, etc., and then digitally enlarge him to seven feet tall, sort of the reverse of what was done with the Hobbits.

That being said, I do think this Hulk looks waaay better than the one in Ang Lee's version. At least this one looks like a classic Herb Trimpe Hulk and not Shrek.

what was the movie awhile back with the wolfman, and the vampires, and Frankenstein? they didnt do too bad with human monsters.

Van Helsing!

Gesuntheit!

robisgay

Interesting. I just happened to watch a few minutes of Van Helsing again a week or two ago (it was the opening scene with Mr. Hyde) and I was thinking how shitty the CG looked. If anything, I thought the Hulk looked better than that.

You touch yourself at night doncha!

What with my state's current crackdown on lawyers going to hookers I'd better.

Uh, wait...that didn't come out right.

Damn you and your Irish wit, Nowie.

When did P have an Uschi avatar?

I'm still looking forward to this!

I like how Banner falls from the plane - very ultimates!

i liked the time bugs bunny was in a plane in a free fall, and right before it hit the ground it stopped, bugs looked at the audience and said. "air brakes!"!

COMEDY GOLD!

I prefer the one where he said, "Out of gas".

They don't make 'em like they used to!

What’s Big and Green, and Desperate to Be a Hit All Over: For Marvel Studios, handling gamma rays is starting to look like a cakewalk compared to turning “The Incredible Hulk” into a movie franchise.

Poster up here.

NYCC '08: INCREDIBLE HULK MOVIE PANEL

• The Incredible Hulk panel at the New York Comic Con seemed to set the stage in quite possibly reversing the taste left in fandom’s mouth by Ang Lee’s 2003 artsy interpretation of the comic icon.
  
  Director Louis Leterrier was joined on stage by the film’s producer Gale Anne Hurd and Kevin Feige, president of production for Marvel Studios.
  
  Leterrier, known best State-side for his work on The Transporter Euro-action flicks told the crowd he had just got into town from Seattle where he was working on the film’s score, composed by Craig Armstrong.
  
  “It’s Star Wars good,” he told the crowd. A statement greeted by a skeptical grown mixed with cheers. “We will have a final mix next week.”
  
  When asked what’s new, Feige replied simply: “We have a kick-ass villain.”
  
  Which was the cue to roll the footage of John Hurt as Gen. Thunderbolt Ross and Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky, discussing the decidedly painful use of a “super soldier” formula injected into the subject’s deep muscle tissue and the bones. (Later in the panel it was hinted that the vial was the same colors as Captain America.)
  
  After the footage, Tim Roth joined the panelists on stage. Leterrier and Feige made it clear that this version of The Hulk was not meant to diminish what Ang Lee created, but to move the story in a direction more familiar to the fans. To make it a more traditional approach to the character:
  
  “We needed a big ass fight in this movie,” Feige said. “The Abomination is as big as it comes. We wanted the Hulk to be a hero. Against this guy the Hulk is the underdog.”
  
  Leterrier premiered a five-minute clip, not yet complete, of Ross and Blonsky pursuing the Hulk. We see Banner being chased through what looks like an Ivy League university or tony hospital while his nemesis’ daughter Betty Ross (Liv Tyler) looks on. The U.S. Army uses tear gas which only unleashes The Hulk. We see him tussle with Blonsky. Despite looking human, Blonsky is amazing acrobatic, strong and quick. The clip ends with Blonsky gets kicked in the chest by The Hulk.
  
  Asked if this incarnation of The Hulk would speak the film’s director Louis Leterrier joked about the green Goliath’s famous phrase: “Hulk Smash? We should put that in.”
  
  Later in the panel a fan asked how influenced he was by the 1970s Hulk TV show.
  
  “In France Marvel Comics were not that popular," when he was growing up. “But The Hulk TV show was very popular. Bill Bixby was absolutely amazing in it. And a guy called Lou Ferrigno was in it …”, which was the cue for the fan-favorite to walk onto the stage to huge applause.
  
  Ferrigno walked across the stage, stood behind Leterrier and Kevin Feige, president of production for Marvel Studio and flexed his muscles to even more applause.
  
  “You see what I started?” he joked to the appreciative crowd.
  
  Ferrigno told the audience how he auditioned for the 1980s animated Hulk TV series and cupping his microphone in his hands bellowed: “Hulk Mad! Hulk Smash!”
  
  At which point Leterrier said Ferrigno is going to do the Hulk voice in the new movie, invited the actor to the studio and that it was “a deal.”
  
  The panel ended with the premiere of the new Hulk trailer, though the director said it was incomplete and using an alternative soundtrack, the ad built on the previously released trailer, explaining in quick succession that Bruce Banner has been in hiding, traveling the world, working on trying to find a “cure” for his malady. We see General Thunderbolt Ross played perennial sci-fi movie actor John Hurt ordering a “snatch and grab” operation to bring Banner back to the U.S.
  
  Next we see Banner, played by Edward Norton running through the streets of what looks like the slums of Rio de Janeiro. The scenes of the Hulk/Blonsky fight are shown. Then we see scenes of Blonksy becoming, well, lumpy and finally we see the Abomination and Hulk throwing down in Midtown.
  
  The audience ate it up, but after the credits a scene was appended to the trailer that seems to lay rest to one of the biggest Hulk rumors on the net: We see General Ross with what appears to be a black eye (or he is rip-roaring drunk) holding up a bar with a drink in his hand. We cut to the bar door opening, and like an old-school western we see a man in silhouette enter the bar and we hear Robert Downey, Jr.’s voice. Due to the screams in the audience what he says is barely audible, but then he walks up to Ross, we see Downey’s face. Ross compliments him as “always having the nicest suits.” Then Downey says to Ross: “I hear you have an unusual problem?”
  
  “You should talk,” Ross retorts.
  
  “You should listen,” says Downey.
  
  Cut to black. Cue audience pandemonium.

Hat tip: Jeremy.

Another trailer is up at AICN.

This movie looks to suck ass...green ass.

If they wanted to do the Bill Bixby shit why not just do the military thing again...why bring in abomination? This movie will be a nightmare....