ROTTEN TOMATOES: Jessica Biel Joining a (Gray?) "Hulk?

Jessica Biel Joining a (Gray?) "Hulk?

by Scott Weinberg | April 23, 2007

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We open the week with a pair of rumors regarding "The Incredible Hulk." Could the green giant end up being ... not so green? Plus, buzz tells us that mega-hottie Jessica Biel might be showing up in the semi-sequel.

While describing the next "Hulk" flick, producer Avi Arad used a phrase that might have meant nothing -- or maybe it didn't. "It's a new Hulk, new direction, new size, new color, new attitude. Anything that was done before is not in this movie," is what the Marvel guru had to say. Wait, what? "New color?" What's that all about? Either he meant a slightly different shade of green, an entirely different color altogether, or perhaps the grey shade that the Hulk used to be back in the earrrrly comic days. Guess we'll just have to wait and see...

Additional speculation indicates that Ms. Jessica Biel is being considered for a part in the second "Hulk" adventure -- although that's being listed as pure rumor at this point. If so, she'd be re-joining her "Illusionist" co-star Edward Norton in a decidedly different type of film.

Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium

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ZEZEtheX writes:
on Apr 23 2007 02:31 AM

wow, this already smells like crap.

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cgcbooks writes:
on Apr 23 2007 04:57 AM

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Not if she's nude.

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Defmonkey writes:
on Apr 23 2007 06:25 AM

Has she ever been nude yet on the silver screen?

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adml_shake writes:
on Apr 23 2007 07:29 AM

If they want me to see this movie with a fraken gray hulk, she'd better damn well be getting nude in it.

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Vitamin M writes:
on Apr 23 2007 08:01 AM

I can't wait for this film...Beil nude would just be icing.

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cgcbooks writes:
on Apr 23 2007 08:02 AM

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icing to lick off.

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unbreakable_samurai writes:
on Apr 23 2007 08:22 AM

With both Biel and Norton in this, it would go from a film a didn't give a shit about to one that I would have to see. I don't know about grey though, hopefully just a diffirent shade of green.

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blank blank writes:
on Apr 23 2007 08:34 AM

im not one of those people who whine about small stuff in comic book adaptations (like those idiots who almost boycotted spiderman because they made the decision that parker didnt invent his webshooters, it was part of his mutation), but grey hulk? the greeness is part of the hulk character, like kermit the frog. a different shade of green is fine, but not grey...

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cgcbooks writes:
on Apr 23 2007 09:14 AM

Having the Hulk grey would be like making a Barney movie and having him yellow.

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arendr writes:
on Apr 23 2007 09:14 AM

you comic book guys aren't picking up the slack here as you usually do. i did a little research and found that there is indeed a grey incarnation of Hulk in the comics.

jessica biel is insanely hot. let's hope her acting is up to snuff.

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cgcbooks writes:
on Apr 23 2007 09:17 AM

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But your average moviegoer knows the Hulk as being green.

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arendr writes:
on Apr 23 2007 09:34 AM

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the average moviegoer would think batman was a campfest with homosexual overtones were it not for Batman Begins.

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highdough writes:
on Apr 23 2007 10:09 AM

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The average moviegoer did not see the first Hulk.

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sharpless writes:
on Apr 23 2007 10:56 AM

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Screw the average moviegoer. Make a good film and it won't matter. The Hulk is the Hulk, regardless of his color, and people will know that. I hope they go for the grey Hulk. That was how the Hulk first looked, and it'd be almost like starting over. I'm all for it. Just write a good story, please.

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cgcbooks writes:
on Apr 23 2007 11:28 AM

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You might be right.

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cgcbooks writes:
on Apr 23 2007 11:32 AM

It just might be cool to see the Hulk cloned and then having 10 or fifteen of them beating the holy crap out of each other and anyone or anything standing in there way.

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Kid_Ikarus writes:
on Apr 23 2007 11:41 AM

Bring on The Abomination...

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Matanuki writes:
on Apr 23 2007 12:04 PM

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This strange animal that we call "the average moviegoer".... Schumacher and camp thought they were writing for this creature back when they did the original Batman movies. And that's why they failed. It took the Nolan bros and Goyer to step in and remind their idiot colleagues that these films should be written for us, the die-hards. Because these are the people who made these characters so successful in the first place. Think about it. Watching a movie is a lazy pasttime when compared to reading... anything. Write these films for the fans who support the original 2-D medium. This is why we should be excited about Marvel breaking out with their own film company. They'll write the films for us, and maybe we'll stop getting hackneyed renditions of great time honored mythology.

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the-russian writes:
on Apr 23 2007 12:08 PM

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I'll attempt to one up you on that. If I remember correctly, Hulk was always meant to be grey, but after the 1st issue, they had problems printing the grey color of his skin, so they just changed it to green. In later years, they reintroduced the grey in different stories, w/ different hulks, kind of as a throwback to the first issue.

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arendr writes:
on Apr 23 2007 12:15 PM

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i'd say we need some kind of bat-signal to call on you guys when needed, but you all seem to show up anyway :)

that's an interesting story. i like knowing those little trivias.

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