The Avengers The Official 'Hulk in Avengers' thread.

[Sarg92]

If by prep you mean fancy artwork, story boards, and tweakings to the script then yeah. If by prep you mean the actual director working on the film and getting heavily involved in pre-production then no. The director has barely touched the movie up until now and will not start working on it for another couple of weeks or so.

Yep, that is correct.

They only have done artwork and designs so far which look awesome according to Leterrier.

 

[Son of Coul]

And Favreau too, about a year or so ago. Said that their stuff was "pretty impressive."

 

[Chewy]

If by prep you mean fancy artwork, story boards, and tweakings to the script then yeah. If by prep you mean the actual director working on the film and getting heavily involved in pre-production then no. The director has barely touched the movie up until now and will not start working on it for another couple of weeks or so.

Yeah, that's what prep is for the most part. They aren't officially in pre-production yet that I know of, but they are definitely working on the script and talking to Johnston about it while storyboarding the action scenes and maybe even working on some pre-viz stuff.

 

[bullets]

Norton just spoke to MTV and stated he would be available but it depends on the timing.

 

[LostSon88]

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/09/2...rn-to-hulk-role-is-purely-a-function-of-time/

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/09/2...rn-to-hulk-role-is-purely-a-function-of-time/

EXCLUSIVE: Edward Norton Says Potential Return To 'Hulk' Role Is 'Purely A Function Of Time'

Posted 9/28/09 11:33 am ET by Rick Marshall in Marvel, News, Video


Last week, "Incredible Hulk" star Edward Norton told us why he likes the idea of Marvel's green-skinned behemoth being the destructive force that forces Iron Man, Captain America and Thor to team up in "The Avengers."
However, while we had Norton talking about superheroes, we had to ask him yet another burning question on the minds of comic book movie fans: Will he be the one playing Bruce Banner when "Avengers" (or "Iron Man 2" or any of the other Marvel movies) come around?

"It's purely a function of time," said Norton. "It's always about just working things out on the schedule."
"I get very busy. You have to deal with the demands of your moment," he continued. "I tend to keep my head in the thing I'm doing and I don't speculate or worry too much about what two or three blocks down the thing is going to be. I know all these things will reveal themselves and work themselves out."


While Norton's response to the question of future Marvel movie roles was a bit, well... ambiguous... he didn't shy away from talking about what interests him in the Marvel movie universe.


"The thing about their universe that's fun is that it all cross-pollinates," said Norton. "Even when I was working on the 'Incredible Hulk' script, I tried to plug in the whole super-soldier serum thing from Captain America."
"There are limitless permutations," he said.

Its no slam dunk but at least now he's saying that he's interested! t:

 

[Gamma Goliath]

Woohoo, go norton!
No but really, this is good, marvel needs to a move on with cap and thor, so they get can the avengers going.

 

[[A]]

Cross-pollinates, permutations.. Ease up, Ed

 

[Bruce Banner]

At least he's discussing it. If he just avoided those questions I'd be more concerned.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Limitless permutations??? Never figured Norton for a mathematician.

 

[TheVileOne]

Hey, hopefully this means Norton is open to coming back onboard.

The issue is him not creatively butting heads and understanding he's not in charge.

 

[bullets]

I think he's doing a wait and see for when they choose a director.

 

[Bruce Banner]

Yeah he is waiting. Zak Penn is writing and Norton already tweeked it a bit while working on Hulk.

Norton is also writing and directing/starring in Motherless Brooklyn and is trying to get the project in motion. Last time I checked it was around 2012 as well.

 

[Captainhulk]

Its no slam dunk but at least now he's saying that he's interested! t:

This is from a slightly older article 8-4-09. Sorry if this has been posted.

[URL="http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/news/00026174.jpg"]
Edward Norton remains coy when asked whether or not The Hulk will be involved in "The Avengers". When IGN caught up with him while he promoted "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama", the new HBO documentary he produced, at the Television Critics Association press event, the 39-year-old declined to comment.

"I probably won't comment on that, just because they [Marvel] keep a pretty tight reign on what they are letting out," the Academy Award nominee stated. "I'll let them say." Meanwhile, NukeTheFridge repoted that Marvel wants the actor who portrays Bruce Banner aka The Hulk in 2008's "The Incredible Hulk" for more than just "The Avengers." The site claimed, "[He] will have a possible cameo [in Iron Man 2] as both Bruce Banner and the Hulk".


http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00026174.html#

 

[Gamma Goliath]

Yeah we speculaated over that when it was first posted.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Surprised no one has commented before me but looks like Norton could be back on board, I really hope so, as I want the Hulk to have a significant part in this and if Norton is on board the chances of that happening are very high.

 

[Silver Knight]

Agreed. We need Hulk back on the big screen.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I just hope Norton is on board for a TIH2 as well if they do one, hopefully Avengers propels Hulk's popularity as a character were there is enough demand for a TIH2.

 

[Silver Knight]

I hope there will be TIH2 but I highly doubt it.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^You never know, if Avengers does outrageous numbers and Hulk has a prominent role, his BO popularity could make Marvel more willing to take a risk on a sequel.

I just wonder if any other TIH characters will make an appearence in Avengers, like Betty, Samson, Abom and The Leader, wouldnt mind a few of them making an appearence.

 

[Deaths Head II]

I think there is a pretty good chance of a TIH sequel after his appearance in Avengers. I don't think we'll be seeing many supporting cast members in Avengers though, since the movie already has a large cast with the main crew alone. Maybe we'll see General Ross working with Nick Fury if we're lucky.

 

[Silver Knight]

I want to see the Leader in the Avengers.

 

[Son of Coul]

On a potential Incredible Hulk sequel

"Not before The Avengers," Fiege confirmed.

On reintroducing Hulk with The Avengers

"We certainly plan on it. He was there in "The Avengers
" #1 and in "The Ultimates" #1 so certainly the Hulk is a key part of these films leading up to The Avengers. Iron Man 2 has some clues to where these timelines take place as they relate to each other. So I certainly think Hulk will be a player on that team."

On Edward Norton's return

"A lot of it depends on the story, a lot of it depends on the schedule and a lot of it depends on the lofty ideas that we have. You also have to work with the realities of people's schedules as to when they are available and stuff like that. So we reserve the right to say Hulk will be in it for sure, we'll see about Banner."

Sounds to me like they just have to discuss it with Norton in due time, then decide if they're including Banner. Or possibly keep him out to save some dough and movie time. The Avengers #1 went without Banner at all, but at that point Hulk had come into his own as a character more than in the MCU so it worked in that story.

 

[terry78]

So long as they don't pull a "Banner is Hulk all the time" thing. They could, but having that dynamic with them always kind of on their guard wondering if he's gonna hulk out during an inconvienient time would be interesting.

 

[Son of Coul]

Both Norton and Feige have brought up the scheduling thing and if that's true it doesn't look like Norton has anything on the horizon for Jan/Feb when they're supposedly shooting this thing. So if that's the case they should be good. But if there's more to it like, as I said, money or creative preferences, then it could be likely they'll just have Hulk.

I'd definitely prefer having Banner, especially to keep RDJ and Sam Jackson company with the younger cast running around, but I think I'd be ok with just Hulk depending on how they handle it. As long as they don't recast. That'd be the worst thing in the world.

 

[thorstone]

These are the only three renditions they need to look at for their designs:

The green Hulk needs some yellows in the green, as seen here.

Rather than hoaky CGI transformations; they could do an explosion with green smoke (like Mr. Hyde in reverse) for the green Hulk, and an explosion with gray smoke for the gray Hulk.

The actual character effect in my opinion should be done with scaling and animatronics like Mr. Hyde in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.