The Incredible Hulk (2008 Film)

[BFG9000]

I'm seeing it tomorrow afternoon. I'm more interested in the fight between Hulk and the Abomination. I want to see how Hulk gets rid of that menace. Also someone said that Iron Man makes a sneaky appearance somewhere in there.

[BFG9000]

Just seen it the other day and man did they throw everything including the sink in this thing!
I loved the cab ride in the middle of the film and of course the battle sequence at the end. Wonder how they'll top this and Iron Man? 8-)

[AYHJA]

I hope that they don't try...I'm not sure how the Wolverine project is going, but I'd be more interested to see another of the Marvel Universe characters come to life...

[darklighter1]

Uh oh.. :?

Latest "Hulk" may not spawn a sequel
Wednesday July 9 1:17 AM ET

It's a tale of two movies, with an oddly similar ending.

Five years ago, "Hulk," the first movie based on Marvel's hulking green comic book character, rang up $245 million in worldwide box office but was widely dismissed as a commercial failure.

The second attempt, "The Incredible Hulk," amped up the fun factor and dialed down the brooding of director Ang Lee's original but is unlikely to gross significantly higher than its predecessor and might not spawn a sequel. And it's been dubbed a success.

What gives?

"We're happy with the financial results, even if they (only) reach the first film's levels," a Marvel insider insisted. "Having a sequel is not the definition of success."

That's fortunate, as even outpacing the first film's worldwide haul by 10% looks optimistic at this point, and that's not likely to stoke enthusiasm for a franchise follow-up anytime soon.

After four weekends, the Louis Leterrier-directed "The Incredible Hulk" has earned $125 million, the same as what "Hulk" had pulled in at the same time in its run. "Hulk" finished with $132 million, and its successor is unlikely to do much better.

Its foreign rollout is still in progress, with comics-friendly Japan among the territories the remake has yet to bow, but it appears likely that the Edward Norton starrer will struggle to reach $130 million internationally. The first film tallied $113.2 million overseas.

Action films tend to outperform internationally, though comic book adaptations can be a different matter if the fan base skews American. Marvel touts the Hulk comic franchise as its second most popular worldwide, after Spider-Man.

"All we can say as a studio is that we are very pleased with the result," Universal domestic distribution president Nikki Rocco said.

Despite the similarity of the Hulk films' theatrical runs, industryites suggest the lighter tone of the second film makes it more the vehicle to generate sequels, and some suggest the remake will prove a more lucrative DVD title than the Eric Bana-starring original. On the other hand, production costs and marketing expenses were steeper the second time around, totaling more than $200 million. The first film cost about $150 million to make.

Still, the dark original so turned off the Hulk character's fanboy base as to require a complete reworking of its big-screen rendering before a film franchise could be christened.

But Marvel has yet to greenlight a Hulk sequel. So other observers suggest the films' most important distinction lies simply in how well market expectations were managed in advance of their respective bows.

"Hollywood is always about perception," said David Davis, managing partner and entertainment analyst at Arpeggio Partners in Los Angeles. "The first Hulk (movie) had such high expectations after the NBC-Universal merger and was supposed to be critical-favorite Ang Lee's breakout commercial blockbuster.

"Then with the new Hulk film, Marvel was able to underplay the importance of the success after the great success of 'Iron Man' this summer," Davis said. "So the new one overdelivered, relative to its underpromise."

The Marvel-produced, Paramount-distributed "Iron Man" has fetched more than $563 million at the worldwide box office.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

See, that's what I'm talkin' about! When Marvel first mentioned rebooting the franchise a couple of years back & hinted at using the Grey Hulk i got so pumped. If you're gonna reboot,reboot the fuck outta it! I really dug Incredible Hulk, but I still wonder WHAT IF to them growing more balls & suprising the fuck outta general moviegoers & fanboys had they gone with the ruthless,sarcastic & darker incarnation they had in Grey. I think non-comic reading folk woulda been pleasantly shocked & suprised with reactions like "I didn't know Hulk could talk like a mean-streaked foul-mouthed motherfucker!" or "damn,I thought he was only a dimwit who said shit like Hulk Smash" & the darkness & tone of Peter David's Grey Hulk stories would've given TDK a huge run for it's money & dude would've been a badderass threat to any villain or hero the filmmakers threw up against him in that film or the next. Honestly, I'm sick of the Savage Childlike Hulk. That version has no complexity to him & has been done to death. Now, the Grey or Merged/Professor versions are way more interesting & entertaining. I think brother raum & I should go to Hollyweird & put hacks like Zak Penn & David Goyer out of business. What say thee,Raum?. [/rant]

[darklighter1]

You know you may be right Jig. I'm kinda thinking that woulda been cool actually.

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

[center] Source: DVD Active
August 14, 2008


DVD Active has posted the following cover art for the upcoming The Incredible Hulk DVD. No release date or specifications have been announced yet (aside from the "3-Disc Special Edition" noted on the artwork), so stay tuned for those.


Oh goody! A 3 Disc Edition hopefully means that Letterier & Norton's cut will be part of the package. If so, I suspect it will be tonally different much in the same way the Director's Cut of Daredevil was very different (focusing more on the Kingpin & DD's war on crime) in context to the wack as fuck theatrical version which focused on the love story between the Two Chins. Let's keep our fingers crossed shall we. I still feel this could be a much better movie if tweaked right & extended in length. Methinks that the Stark cameo was meant to be a Stinger post-credits & the end of the film was meant to show Bruce with the Change under Control.[/center]

[darklighter1]

Yeah lookin forward to seeing Norton's version but I may wait awhile on both this and Iron Man.....pesky second editions with even more stuff seem to turn up 6 months after every first release now! :disappoint:

[AYHJA]

All I can think is that I might be spending hundreds of dollars on Blu-Ray's this year... :(

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

[center] Edward Norton on Hulk's Future
Source:MTV
September 16, 2008


The Incredible Hulk star Edward Norton tells MTV he is uncertain about the green fella's future.

"The minds of Marvel are sometimes opaque," Norton said. "I won't say [they're] obtuse, but I don't have any idea what they want to do."

He added he was not sure if he would be asked back for Marvel Studios' planned team-up project, The Avengers, scheduled for a July 2011 release.

"They've got this notion of collecting the Marvel characters," Norton said. "Who knows where they'll go?"
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