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More Bixby, Less Bana in Hulk 2

by Fred Topel | June 21, 2007

Summary

Marvel Studios is happy to be relaunching the "Hulk" franchise with all new actors and a new vision for the film. They're not even above slamming their own work, as Marvel president Kevin Feige addressed questions about how "The Incredible Hulk" will differ from Hulk. Back to Article

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jacog writes:
on Jun 28 2007 08:36 PM

To quote a rather overused movie cliche': "I have a bad feeling about this."

Ang Lee's Hulk had a lot wrong with it, but if you watched it with an open mind, you'd have seen it was not a bad film. Instead of rebooting, perhaps they just needed to let Lee do a sequel, with more fan stuff. The first movie established the characters, they fought their inner demons, gone through the whole Greek tragedy spiel etc... a sequel would not have needed that and could have focused more on Hulk vs. Villain.

In fact, I rather like the origin aspects of the first film... the pseudoscience was great... they made it almost plausible... rather than just "oh, he got hit with some gamma rays and now he's hulky"

Now what... we're getting another origin story? Hope not.

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air-x-images writes:
on Aug 06 2007 09:52 PM

I HOPE THE THEY USE THE HULK FROM THE 1ST MOVIE... THERE IS NOTHIN THEY CAN DO TO MAKE THAT HULK ANY BETTER!!! I MEAN IF YOU LOOK AT ALL THE DETAIL, YOU CANT HELP BUT BE BLOWN AWAY BY IT. ANYONE CAN CG SCENERY IE LANDSCAPES, BUILDINGS EVEN CARS THAT TRANSFORM INTO ROBOTS(WHICH WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME)AND MAKE IT LOOK REAL, BUT IT TAKES SOME REAL GENIUS TO CREATE THAT HULK!!U CAN C VEINS, HAIR STRAINDS, MUSCLE STRIATIONS, THEY THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING.. EVEN THE PROPORTIONS OF THE HULK WAS INCREDIBLE!! AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO TRULY APPRECIATES WHAT THEY DID IN THE 1ST HULK? I ADMIT THE POODLE AND THE END ABSORBING MONSTER AT THE END WAS LAME, BUT U CANT TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM THE OTHER SCENES OF THE HULK WHEN HE WAS RUNNING, JUMPING, DESTROYING THE TANKS AND TAKING ON THE CHOPPERS IN THE MOUNTAINS.
THE NEXT MOVIE SHOULD DEPICT THE HULK AS A HERO, USING HIS ABILITIES TO SAVE LIVES..

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morphelan writes:
on Aug 18 2007 05:06 PM

Personally I liked the first movie, not exactly what I was expecting but good all the same. I think the problem was that most people were expecting a formulaic superhero/blockbuster movie with lots of set peices and the like. I thought the CGI HULK was fantastically created and the Banner persona was played eceptionally well by Bana. The story with Banner has always been that he tries to hold the HULK back / find a cure for himself. Hopefully they will just continue the story and not try to redo was has already been achieved. The screenwriters have a carte blanche to do a big action flick this time round if they want to and still keep it as a continuation to first movie. Just keep in mind that the HULK story is not all about "HULK SMASH".

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fluorescentlightbulb writes:
on Feb 03 2008 07:26 PM

I (personally) think that The Hulk should talk. I'm not saying him speaking in 3rd person or in Fragments. I'm saying, he should say full sentences, but still be a man of few words. can;t wait for the "reboot" its ganna be great. oh, and i like how the hulk looks realistic in the new flick. i thought he was too light of green in the last film. I'm just glad they got Ed Norton to act in it, as well as write the screen play. the film will be fantastic. I'm sure it will.
but the movie I ,as well as the majority of the fans, want to see. A Marvel Team up movie. with all the Marvel characters. (or at least just the important ones) trying to stop the end of the world or something. that will be tight.

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Grindking writes:
on Mar 11 2008 12:33 PM

I personally thought Bana did a good job, it's too bad they had to cut him off

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mrcynister writes:
on Apr 07 2008 07:12 AM

First of all the Hulk is my favorite graphic novel to date, and I think it is a mistake to change actors to play the Hulk[i.e.the Batman series], the first one with Eric Bana was well acted, just poorly written and directed and was totally setup for a Hulk 2, and this is what we get???. this looks like they just want a great special effects[oh and throw in a lame story], movie for the summer. [Sigh] should of stayed with the core they had from the first movie and written a killer script[now there's a novel idea]. oh well, at least Ironman looks promising..:), go back to work on the Hulk, maybe someday you'll get it right.

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