Apr 21 2008 Image: Hulk Delivers Scrap Metal to Tim Roth
Nothing is more awkward than when a giant, green, shirtless man wrecks your expensive military equipment and you have to stand there and sort out all the insurance details with him.
New Incredible Hulk Images [Empire]
Oct 2 2007 New 'Hulk' Script Involves Bottle Factory
Someone at IESB nabbed a copy of the new Edward Norton Hulk script, which they're calling an "incredible ride" (literally, hopes Six Flags) and have posted a long synopsis here. Luckily, for those of us who want bullet points, /Film was kind enough to provide that as follows:
* Hulk appears in the first sequence in the film. No waiting around for the green monster’s appearance.* Bruce Banner is hiding out in Brazil in search for exotic flowers that he believes will help destroy the gamma radiation in his blood.
* While working at a bottle factory, Bruce is cut and a drop of his blood falls into one of the bottles. A woman in Minnesota drinks the juice and almost dies. The gamma is detected in her blood and this alerts the military.
* Bruce escapes to the States, meets up with Betty Ross, and they both leave for New York City to find Dr. Sterns, who has developed an “anti-dote” for Bruce. But they are caught by General Ross and the military.
* A soldier named Blonsky who was crushed by Hulk, takes a super gamma serum developed from Bruce’s Blood and transforms into Abomination.
* Hulk must save the city from Abomination.
For some reason, amidst all the gamma radiation, crazy transformations, and superhuman powers, I find the bottle factory part of this the most perplexing. How does the Hulk end up in a bottle factory? Is this some kind of Laverne & Shirley crossover?
And a drop of his blood ends up in a bottle? Can this actually happen in a bottling plant? If so, I'm never drinking from a bottle again. I assumed there were precautions against this. This script would have me believe they say, "Well, it's just a drop. As long he's not the Hulk or Magic Johnson, it should be fine," and send it out.
Jul 30 2007 New Hulk Concept Image
This piece of concept art for the new Hulk with Edward Norton was unveiled at ComicCon this last weekend, showing a somewhat darker direction for the character. My only complaint is that they had to show it to the ComicCon crowd, where Lou Ferrigno was surely charging for autographed pictures in some back corner. It's his one time of the year to receive any amount of positive recognition, and they had to go and remind him that each coming Hulk film pushes his old role further into cultural obscurity. Soon he'll less of a former Hulk, more of just a muscular freak with the occasional stint on King of Queens.
Jul 27 2007 Tim Blake Nelson Leads Hulk
Hulk villain The Leader demands a payback blowjob in five minutes.
Typically hillbilly-style character actor Tim Blake Nelson reportedly has a part in the new Hulk film as scientist-turned-villain Samuel Stearns. Like Hulk, Stearns is bombarded with gamma radiation that turns his skin green and grants him super intelligence at the cost of a phallic head. I'll reserve my judgment and trust they find a way to rationalize the super-genius villain having the voice of Goofy. Maybe if, when defeated, he throws his hat on the ground and shouts things like "Tarnation!" and "Dag-nabbit!" I'll accept it.
May 9 2007 Tim Roth to Play Hulk Villain
The Incredible Hulk will be matched against the oversized adversary Abomination, and Tim Roth will play the villain's alter ego, Emil Blonsky.Despite the fact that the first Hulk sucked with Ang Lee and this one's going to be directed by the guy who did The Transporter, this story gives me reason to be optimistic.
1. Like Edward Norton, Tim Roth usually seems to me a pretty competent actor.
2. "Blonsky is a KGB agent who deliberately exposes himself to the gamma rays that caused Bruce Banner to morph into the Hulk. Blonsky has upped the dosage, making him larger and stronger than the Hulk, but unable to change back to human form." Meaning, if Tim Roth is going to act in the movie (and not just do a voice), and he's going to be a bigger and stronger version of the hulk the whole time, we now have reason to believe (or at least hope) that the Hulk's nemesis isn't going to just be some big piece of CGI, and by extension perhaps neither will the Hulk.
Is that too much of a stretch? Probably.
And by the way, I spend half my day deliberately exposing myself and all I ever seem to get are restraining orders. Where the heck do I find these gamma rays?
May 4 2007 Liv Tyler Loves The Hulk
Liv Tyler has signed on to star opposite Edward Norton in Marvel Studios' new version of The Hulk as Betty Ross, the longtime love interest to Dr. Bruce Banner. When Banner later transforms into his green gamma-radiated counterpart, Ross is the one most often forced to deal with the horrific phenomenon known as "Hulk rape," which has been described as "like giving birth to twins at the same time, but over and over and over again, and through the fly of tattered, purple pants."
Apr 16 2007 Edward Norton is the New Hulk
Marvel Studios has announced that Edward Norton will play Bruce Banner in the sequel to The Incredible Hulk. The first Hulk movie kinda sucked, but it's the law of the universe that every comic book has to be made into at least six movies, so hopefully Norton can get the franchise back on track.
Word on the street is that the new hulk will be a green supremacist who's always freaking out and curb stomping everyone.
