Marvel Entertainment last week announced that it was having a stab at the green giant themselves after Ang Lee's somewhat underrated CG fest, The Hulk. I personally thought Lee's interpretation was pretty sturdy and for the most part enjoyable. It did however, kind of miss the point a bit in a lot of ways, most notably, who the Hulk is, and Why he's such a temperamental big so and so. It would seem that Marvel ent. noticed this lacking factor too. They are making their own movie based on the classic comic-book superhero and has set June 27, 2008 as the release date. Promising news since that will be literally weeks after another guaranteed hit at the box office, Iron Man starring Robert Downey jr, so we're in for a "marvel"lous summer of comic book movies again (I'll get my coat...).
The company promises a return to the roots of the Hulk mythology with the new script, which is being written by Zak Penn (X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand). The film is being produced by former Marvel Ent. CEO Avi Arad, Marvel Studios president of production Kevin Feige and veteran producer Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator).
"The Incredible Hulk will be the type of fun, high-octane event film people have come to expect from Marvel,” says Feige. “We could not be more excited about this project and our summer 2008 prospects now that we have both our green goliath and our highly-anticipated Iron Man set for release."?
"We're very happy that Universal is distributing The Incredible Hulk,” adds Marvel Studios president and COO Michael Helfant, who will exec produce the film. “We have a history together and this is a great opportunity for both Marvel and Universal to take the Hulk film franchise to another level."
Source was Animation Magazine
Well, here's hoping!
1 comment:
OK so it was a bit long and slow, and the ending was a bit poor, but I really liked ang lee's hulk. especially the comic book feel it had...
looking forward to this one tho. hope they just make it a smash-n-grab ride tho without all the emotion...
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