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Re: The Incredible Hulk Trailer
and it looks like the new Batman movie is going to be the best movie of the summer. 
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808495230/video/6965543
Ed Norton seems like a really good fit, but again I don't like the CGI Hulk. They should have used Triple H for the angry Hulk role.
Re: The Incredible Hulk Trailer
Is there zero interest in this film? Mike posted a trailer a few weeks ago, and no responses. I don't see this film getting mentioned anywhere else either.
I have always said the ONLY way I will ever support a Hulk franchise is if it is done like the TV series. I don't like this comic book Hulk shit.
Re: The Incredible Hulk Trailer
I know I couldn't care less about this film. They just made one a few years ago... who cares about this newer one? Seriously, what is the driving force behind this movie? Updated CGI? woopdeedoo. As has already been said, they should go small. Make it just a very muscle bound guy
Re: The Incredible Hulk Trailer
I'm interested in the fact that the shooting script is credited to Ed Norton.
But yeah, currently the film is sort stuck in the crossfire in the argument between Norton & director Louis Leterrier and Marvel Studios. Found a rather interesting article on the subject, which sure does explain the lack of buzz at the moment.
A pity for Universal, since Hulk was to be one of their tent-pole releases for the summer.
Edward Norton isn't speaking. The star of The Incredible Hulk, the new $150 million adaptation of the Marvel comic-book series, would normally be chatting up the press this time of year, promoting his big summer movie. Instead, the 38-year-old Oscar nominee has declined repeated interview requests, following a disagreement he had with his producers over the final cut of the film. In recent months, Norton and the film's director, Louis Leterrier (The Transporter), campaigned for a longer, more detailed film. Marvel Studios wanted a faster, leaner one. Marvel won. These creative arguments happen in Hollywood a lot but usually remain a secret. This time, they didn't. So Norton isn't talking, and others are ready to lay the blame '” well, everywhere. ''It's as much Marvel's fault as it is Edward's,'' Leterrier says. ''And my fault. It's everybody's fault! Or no one's fault, in a way. I regret that [Marvel and Norton] didn't come to an agreement where we could've all worked together.''
[Long article, full text here
Since then, Norton has spoken up.
More on HULK and Norton Rumors
By: Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
If you've been following our weekly Top Maniacal Rumors of the Week column the past few weeks, you'll know that there have been rumblings of a division between executive producer/star/screenwriter Edward Norton and director Louis Leterrier on the final cut of the upcoming Incredible Hulk. Well, Entertainment Weekly has gone into more detail on exactly what's going on...
According to Leterrier, he and his star hit it off beautifully, and there were no issues with Marvel while the movie was being shot. During post-production, though, the relationship with Marvel hit a snag. The company wanted to release the most commercial film possible: lots of action and a running time under two hours. Norton and Leterrier, however, lobbied for a more meditative cut of the film that ran about two hours and 15 minutes.
Here's what Norton had to say...
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.
Norton's comments should be administered with a grain of salt. He's infamous for locking horns with American History X director Tony Kaye (who himself was already a legend in advertising at the time), basically locking the filmmaker out of the editing room in order to make sure The Ed Cut is the one that gets out. Kaye raised some hell over the matter, but Norton's career survived as he was the one who had studio backing. And of course, when you get a carte blanche to write and star over a $200M movie, you tend to be proud of all the things money can buy you.
As for Leterrier, he comes off as someone who was smart enough to acknowledge who was the big green man in the room, playing ball in order to accommodate Norton's goals. Basically this translates into doing it Ed. For all you Norton fans out there, I'm sorry but it's a bit of a stretch (or a vague statement) for him to raise Leterrier over the likes of Milos Forman, David Fincher, Woody Allen and my lasting favorite, Julie Taymor. To me, Leterrier recalls an era in the film industry before the French New Wave and the auteur theory, when the director was essentially a studio hired hand, whose job was to use his knack for storytelling in the studios story in the most effective ways. Not that different from adverts, when you think about it.
I used to be a big fan of Norton's, but I fear he's beginning to mistake his ego with the size of his paycheck, to quote the revered Marlon Brando.
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