The Incredible Hulk

Recently a lot of fans brushed up on the "female Hulk" episode 2, because it involves the earlier 2008 version of the "Incredible Hulk" movie character "Abomination", is also several new fans into the pit have raised questions -

Why is the plot of the link, but the 08 version of the Hulk and now the Hulk version different?

This play in fact for many old Marvel fans should not be a strange thing, earlier I also mentioned this matter in some tweets, so today we will talk about the Hulk actor version replacement reasons.

[1] 08 years of "Hulk" Edward Norton why than Uncle Mark's version of Hulk have a stronger sense of impact?

Although nowadays many comic book fans for Hulk's first impression will be "Uncle Mark" Mark Ruffalo this face, I believe that for many and I like the old fans, the best Hulk may still be the Edward Norton version of the year.

Of course!

This does not mean that Uncle Mark's version of the Hulk is not good enough, in fact, now left Uncle Mark to show the Hulk this role of too many restrictions, space is too small, on the one hand, because the Hulk's film distribution rights, so that the Hulk simply can not have their solo movie, only the whole IP series in other "rub" the plot.

On the other hand, because now the Hulk's position is more of a service to the main universe plot line, and Marvel can now support a lot of popular characters, and Marvel's mutual achievement of Stark needless to say, but even the U.S. team, the Widow these characters have higher popularity than the Hulk seems.

So, Hulk has such a clear core top flow of the role, so gradually marginalized (but good, there is news that Hulk movie distribution rights return, Marvel also seems to be interesting to tilt resources to Hulk).

And for the Hulk of the year -

The Incredible Hulk" is the result of cooperation between Marvel and Universal Pictures, and is the Hulk's one-man movie, so whether in the spotlight or plot resources, around the Hulk turn, naturally this period of the Hulk to people's sense of impact than the present-day Uncle Mark to come some strong.

But the more important is the Hulk actor "Edward Norton" factor!

Edward Norton is a good actor, but perhaps because of his expectations for the role and the height of his requirements, making Edward Norton would prefer to be able to "fully" control the role, but under the name, this means that Edward Norton will be in a large degree "power grab ".

When Edward Norton took over the script of "The Incredible Hulk", for the Hulk the role of the expectation of his own words, that is, directly want to make a version of Nolan's "Dark Knight" series of works, so you will see "The Incredible Hulk" is filled with a lot of dark settings, the whole Hulk character is gloomy and combat style with the dark wind.

But for this goal, Edward Norton unknowingly forgot his "sense of proportion" ......

[2] Edward Norton who lost his sense of proportion!

As I said earlier, Edward Norton is a good actor, and even today it can be said that he is a good director, have their ideas, have high expectations of their work, but in the year "The Incredible Hulk" period, Edward forgot his position at the time is an actor rather than director, screenwriter.

For this reason, the year Edward Norton based on the premise of the Hulk high demand began to gradually interfere with the script setting, and even to the back has to "fight" with the director for power, we say an actor can be in the appropriate range and the writer and director to put forward their views on the role, ideas, which is no problem at all.

But if you want to kick out the director and screenwriter, so that the whole film according to their ideas to shoot, unless you are the film's investors, producers, otherwise this is an unwise operation.

Of course, the year of the film production is more to meet the Edward Norton some "overreach" behavior, although, in this period many people are unhappy with him, the good film is still basically shot, and when the film into the final production, Marvel completely can not stand Edward Norton's request.

Because this period of Edward Norton aimed at -

The final cut of the film right?

In other words, this one final cut right can make the film finally present the content, and direction exactly according to Edward Norton's ideas to produce, which is not in line with Marvel's planning at the time, and for this reason, choose to directly kick out Edward Norton.

You know, when in the "reunion 1" period, Marvel originally for the Hulk role planning or let Edward Norton play, so much so that the early version of the "reunion 1" poster Hulk actors are Edward Norton's avatar, but in this matter, Marvel fire to replace the person. "Uncle Mark" Mark Ruffalo is halfway to taking over the role of Hulk, for this reason, for the "reunion 1" Hulk just found a replacement, otherwise it will still be Edward Norton.

So, you see ~

Before and after the Hulk's version of the actor turnover is basically the same thing, and in the previous episode of "female Hulk", Uncle Mark is also with the help of Banner's mouth linked to the year Hulk version of the replacement set:

"Bronski wrote me a very nice letter not long ago. Which has a very heartfelt haiku, so I put everything behind me, that battle was many years ago, I am now completely different."

What's interesting here is that the line was improvised by Uncle Mark himself, which was exposed by "The Hulkess" actress Tatiana Maslany in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, and Uncle Mark himself was admitted in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that "The Hulk" acknowledges the Hulk's complicated history in the MCU "It's really interesting", he joked with former Hulk actor Edward Norton, about the reinvention, his role "like our generation's Hamlet:"

"I think it's very funny, it's just the reality that we all dance around a lot, but it's true. Edward and I joked about it. I thought, 'This is like our generation's Hamlet,' and everybody's going to try it out, and before it's all over, there might be another pair of people, and people will say, 'Remember when the Hulk used to look like Mark Ruffalo? Now it looks like Timothy Chalamet.'"