Let’s face it; Ang Lee’s rendition of the Hulk in 2003 was a brave attempt to re-interpret the comic book mythos as a study of the human psychological state. It drew on influence from ancient Greece, Shakespeare, Frankenstein….and, well, it blew.
It wasn’t just bad, it was really bad. Some critics praised it as ‘touching’ and as a very ‘human’ super hero movie. However as fans of the Hulk know Bruce Banner is no fluffy, little bunny: he’s big, he’s green and he’s mean.
This is the guy who could (possibly) pulverise Superman, this is the most unpredictable character in comic book history and this is the guy who had one of the coolest TV shows from the 1980s. So why on Earth has it taken until now to get a cast and story that has the potential to make a movie worthy of this mammoth franchise?
I know what you’re thinking, what about the 2003 cast and story? Sure it had the potential to be great, but it was a dire, boring mess with great special effects.
So the new movie, due for world wide release on June 13 2008, features a whole new cast and is a rebooted sequel to the 2003 original. What ‘rebooted sequel’ means in layman’s terms is that they will be continuing on with some fundamental story elements from the first movie (i.e. Hulk’s origin, Bruce Banner’s struggle for control, the love story between Banner and Betty Ross) and totally discarding the rest.
Fight Club star Edward Norton plays Bruce Banner this time around and we find him on the run from the US military. Trying desperately to avoid General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt) and cut off his lover Betty Ross (Liv Tyler) Banner is doing everything he can to cure his ‘condition’.
Tim Roth plays villain Emil Blonsky aka ‘The Abomination’, a character who is turned into a monster very similar to the Hulk, with three major differences: he’s stronger, he keeps his normal state of mind and he can’t revert back to his human form.
Academy Award winning visual effects studio Rhythm and Hues has been brought in by director Louis Leterrier to do the CGI for the movie. Ed Norton has also stated that he will be performing the motion capture for the Hulk, so (hopefully) we can expect action of epic proportions. An epic slugfest between the Hulk and Abomination, not to mention the possibility of military robots fighting the Hulk and a whole plethora of sequences could be explored.
With a budget of over 100 million dollars and a strong cast, this definitely has the potential to finally to the big green giant some justice.
Let’s just try not to make him angry, okay?
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