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Hulk62
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A while back I had the opportunity to check out some very cool scripts and one piece of dog **** called a script. No names were available until after they were read, but I have been informed that the first was an INCREDIBLY cool script was written by John Turman. 
Actually I have now read three separate drafts of the TIH script.
The first was the John Turman draft. It is not camp, it is loyal to the material, and it DID NOT FEEL DATED. It was exciting and fresh. It involved Banner, General Thunderbolt Ross and Betty, and Rick Jones, Leader, The Hulk. It does everything that a HULK film should. All of you would die to see this film on the screen, but had an origin re-boot which they did not want.
The second was a Zack Penn draft. Totally different, but really really good.
t: A combination of the comic and the television series (dont make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry). Well balanced. It has some of the other characters, but in my opinion it handled the introduction of the HULK the BEST. I could sense the awe that the Hulk would strike in us. A fairly cool Hulk vs a bunch of sharks (poor sharks), the brick sequence (some cool *****). In my opinion the characters are "too fleshed" out over the Turman Draft which Ang Lee already blasted us with. However, That first draft is the one that should be seen on screen.
t: A combination of the comic and the television series (dont make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry). Well balanced. It has some of the other characters, but in my opinion it handled the introduction of the HULK the BEST. I could sense the awe that the Hulk would strike in us. A fairly cool Hulk vs a bunch of sharks (poor sharks), the brick sequence (some cool *****). In my opinion the characters are "too fleshed" out over the Turman Draft which Ang Lee already blasted us with. However, That first draft is the one that should be seen on screen.Then the third Hulk Script was Jonathon Hensleigh's draft. Rotten load of dog ****. Personally using a rotten dead script as a foundation is sure to bring the project down. Now since the casting has begun on the Hulk with Norton, Roth and Tyler, Penn's script was the most logical choice. Had this been a Origin Hulk movie, I would have had Turman's script. The guys at Universal's hierarchy tell me that many people at the studio wanted to go with Turman's draft, but... decided to allow Penn to script. Believe me you wont be disappointed.
My people at Marvel tell me that Turman slaved away on eight different drafts, all of which were at least 5 grades above the Hensleigh. But you see Turman is a struggling "no-namer" without a lot of credits. In the cut throat world of Hollywood, Turman is the guy who writes the drafts that get people interested. The drafts that capture the readers imagination and makes people say, "**** yeah, I'll blow $130 million making this." But then along comes all the new money men, and shift of execs at Universal, a hot shot writer and lo and behold... Poof! Turman is swept away into a corner. And so goes a great Hulk movie. In comes Penn to save us from Hensleigh, whew! TIH is a project, which gets me all giddy. A fave character of mine. When I was in LA alot of professionals asked me what I thought how Hollywood could do better. Well ... I love early drafts. Turman's and Penn's have heart, wonder and originality. They haven't been ruined by committee. The number one problem is over-development of the scripts, trying to hone them to perfection, going from writer to writer. Each step a step away from the draft that made you want to make a movie. The draft I read that got all at UNIVERSAL and MARVEL excited had Rick Jones, Betty Ross, Thunderbolt Ross and the Leader; a kick- ass re-origin sequence with a gamma bomb countdown that still gives me shivers to think about; and a Bruce Banner that had a genuine fear of turning into the Hulk and hurting someone; well, that was a John Turman script. Penn submitted a draft for the original "Hulk" movie, which was rejected, but that script grabbed the attention of the current filmmakers. His original pitch, along with his success writing "X2: X-Men United" and "X-Men: The Last Stand," earned him the gig. His draft of the first 'Hulk' opened with him already having transformed into the Hulk, It opened with him at a roadside bar with these guys picking on him and him saying, 'Don't make me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry,' and then transforming, and then you flash back to reveal how it all happened.
Part of the way that this 'Hulk' came about is that they went back and used the original origin. The brick action sequence will leave you in awe if it's done right and I'm sure it will. The final battle is exactly want we wanted but didn't get from the first hulk. Well gotta run. Nuff said.
The buffoon has done "copy and paste" of an old AICN article...
... but EMI beat me to it.
