Ed Norton as The Hulk in movie sequel?

[MisterToyNYC]

He's a good actor, but I dont think he's a Bruce Banner.
Eric Bana was perfect in the role IMO,...., and someone in his mould should have been cast.

BTW, i thought the film was good. (Ive never read a hulk comic in my life, but watched the tv series religously when i was young) !

What exactly made Eric Bana "perfect in the role" of Bruce Banner? He was fine, but in my opinion, not perfect. Can you elaborate?

As per the TV series, I was talking to a friend of mine who is a big Hulk fan and he happened to like the Hulk movie. He feels its closer to the Hulk in the comics. He feels that most people only know the Hulk from the TV series, therefore complain about the look of the Hulk in the movie. For instance, the Hulk is huge. Not "tall man" huge, but a "monstrous" huge. I think it would've been corny to have a bodybuilder play him in the movie.

I think Norton is an incredible actor and I look forward to his portrayal of Dr. Banner.

Eric

 

[MisterToyNYC]

The first Hulk deffinately shows where being a good actor/actress doesn't mean you'll be great in everything because in the end you do what you're told. Jennifer Connely is an award winning and talented actress and nothing about he performance really showed of her skills, it wasn't bad, but it didn't make you think Oscar winner either. I think Ed Norton should do well, providing that the script and director mesh well with him.

This is something I've been talking about ever since they said Clooney killed the Batman franchise. How the hell did he kill the franchise? Did he write the screenplay? Did he design the costumes? Did he direct it? No! Then how the hec did he kill it?! Here's what I really found ridiculous, when he was Bruce Wayne, he was very serious, but when he was Batman, it was all one-liners! What the hell?! I actually liked him as Bruce Wayne. Very classy.

You wanna know what killed the franchise?! The @?$&# script, moronic dialogue and all around ridiculous storyline!

I'm sorry, I just had to get that off my chest. Back to Norton, if he's given a good script and takes the role seriously, I think he'll do a great job.

Eric

 

[King Darkness]

This is something I've been talking about ever since they said Clooney killed the Batman franchise. How the hell did he kill the franchise? Did he write the screenplay? Did he design the costumes? Did he direct it? No! Then how the hec did he kill it?! Here's what I really found ridiculous, when he was Bruce Wayne, he was very serious, but when he was Batman, it was all one-liners! What the hell?! I actually liked him as Bruce Wayne. Very classy.

You wanna know what killed the franchise?! The @?$&# script, moronic dialogue and all around ridiculous storyline!

I'm sorry, I just had to get that off my chest. Back to Norton, if he's given a good script and takes the role seriously, I think he'll do a great job.

Eric

100% true, Clooney can not take the blamed for the full on awfulness of that craptacular movie!

 

[sunohc]

i am seroiusly considering on sculpting edward norton as depicted in fight club, but i guess i could easily give him some facial hair and that would work for a bunch of other movies eh?

i was seroiusly awed just by his performance in fight club. very underrated indeed, he deserves better

 

[Dr.Mirakle32]

I haven't really been keeping up with the production of this, so I have no idea which route the filmmakers planning on going with.


Now I love the 1978 series with Bil Bixbly and Lou Ferrigno, as well as the early Hulk comics by Lee and Kirby. The Ang Lee movie was dissapointing, and I just hope they make this sequel/reboot/redo more faithful to the spirit of the show and the early comics.
I HATED with the way the Hulk looked in the 2003 film. The CGI was a bad idea and it made him look like Shrek on steroids.

Ideally, a comic book film should be done somewhat realistically. Sure it's all fantasy and none of this **** can't possibly happen in real life, however, the filmmakers should ask themselves, "well what if it did? How would it look like?" Now I'm not talking super-realistic like Chris Nolan's take on Batman, but about as "realistic" as Bryan Singer treated X-Men.

Jack Kirby designed the original Hulk to be Boris Karloff's Frankenstein Monster on steroids. He was a big guy, but not a Kong-sized giant.
The producers of the 70's series had the right idea. I figure if a guy was somehow transformed into a Mr.Hyde-like monster from radiation, he would look more like Lou Ferrigno than like a human Godzilla.

Here's how I think they should create the Hulk for this film. Get a huge, real life steroid-freak looking body builder, even bigger than Ferrigno if at all possible (there are some scary lookin' body-builders out there, so it shouldn't be too hard) paint him green; give him some good looking prostethics to make him look somewhat similar to Boris Karloff as the Monster (the film IS distibuted by Universal which owns the rights to the original 'Frankesntein', so it wouldn't be infinging copyright,) and afterwards, they can digitally make him appear larger and more menacing in the final film, than he really is (kind of the opposite of how they made the Hobbits look small in LOTR.)

So basically I think they should make the movie Hulk a real live action monster like in the original series, but with a few EFX tweaks.
So would you fans rather have another go at an all CGI monster, or would you rather have a more realistic looking bodybuilder as the Hulk?

 

[metaphorge]

i am seroiusly considering on sculpting edward norton as depicted in fight club, but i guess i could easily give him some facial hair and that would work for a bunch of other movies eh?

If you do him from Fight Club I must have one.