The Incredible Hulk will return!
I think The Incredible Hulk with Edward Norton was the biggest surprise of the year. People weren't expecting anything good coming from it because of the disaster of a movie Ang Lee did a couple of years before. Part of me still enjoyed Lee's Hulk by the way. There isn't any doubt here that this Incredible Hulk turned out to be an awesome movie. I think when the year is out, The Incredible Hulk will end up on my top ten list.
After this film made its theatrical run, its box office total world wide brought it to $262 million bucks on a $150 mil budget. Although a profit was made, the problem is that the domestic take was only $134 million. Studio's like breaking even domestically before movie along with a sequel. So because of this, there wasn't any sequel talk at all. A lot of people including myself thought another Hulk film was less likely.
The head of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige had something to say about that. The Hulk will eventually come to the big screen again. He tells MTV, "Now we have a Hulk that we can be proud of and that is a better match and fits more with the tone of what had been in our comics and what we want him to be in our films going forward." Feige wants us to be pacient while other Marvel characters get their shot. "The truth is that Hulk has had two films in the past five years, and it's time to give some of the other guys a turn. But certainly what we are doing is suggesting and cross-pollinating the characters between films, and like reading a comic, I'd like to set that expectation that anything can happen - and anyone can pop up - in anybody else's story," he says. "I would expect that people may see the Hulk again soon before he is again carrying his own film."
This is great news. I'm glad that The Hulk will get another film for himself but I'm also pumped that he'll be able to get cameos in the next couple of Marvel films. I do hope very much Ed Norton will be willing to return to play the character. His involvement with the film is honestly why it was so good. Since the next Marvel film doesn't come out until 2010, I think it'll be a while till we hear anything else.
Source: Cinematical
-Phil
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