Comments on: Ed Norton Thinks Hulk As Avengers Villain Would Be “Fun”

By: Who Should Direct The Avengers Movie? - Screen Rant

Who Should Direct The Avengers Movie? - Screen Rant — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:20:53 +0000

[...] talking about a film that has to give equal weight to three characters – Cap, Thor and Iron Man (and maybe more) – who are all (best case scenario) going to be blockbuster movie divas in their own [...]

By: william

william — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:34:30 +0000

as long as ed norton comes back i’ll be happy

By: Cory Dupont

Cory Dupont — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:33:37 +0000

I should add that I could see the Leader and the Mandarin posing a serious threat. We know what the Mandarin is capable of, and remember in the Incredible Hulk (film) Sterns had been producing and collecting countless samples of Banner’s tainted blood. He could easily create an army of some sorts that could do some real damage.

Food for thought fellow geeks.

By: Cory Dupont

Cory Dupont — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:29:31 +0000

The Hulk as a “villain” is workable only in so far as we are led to believe that he is the real villain, only to be surprised with a possible introduction into the story of the Skrull, or perhaps an amalgamation of nasty characters like The Mandarin, Fing Fang Foom, and the Leader. Its important to have a villain(s) who not only pose a challenge to the unified power of the Avengers, but who also pose a threat to global civilization! A single villain(s) like the Abomination, or the Red Skull, or Loki: I don’t know?

In the end, if I were to call the shots, its the Skrull all the way. Maybe Thanos? But he/it has to be HUGE, and a real threat to life on earth!

By: Rhaemye

Rhaemye — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:31:12 +0000

@ the Pitt Man

Yes! The gray intelligent Hulk! Now I’m getting excited!

By: Shamose

Shamose — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:39:33 +0000

seeing as it will be the “origin of the avengers” story, perhpas SHIELD will think banner/hulk would come in handy in his new super team so he enlists banner- who thinks he has the hulk under control… so for half of the movie he is working with them then he loses control of the hulk and the avengers must band together to take him down

also: do we think the big bad for the move will be ultron, hydra or a mix of the solo movie villians (abomination/red skull, justin hammer, loki etc)

By: MCat

MCat — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:04:29 +0000

I read in an interview with Norton that he took in hundreds and hundreds of pages of Hulk comics to get different feels for the character. When Norton gets control of a script he makes sure he does it justice. He does his research and put Mickey Rourke in the same class for when it comes to researching roles.

By: James

James — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:16:37 +0000

Hey Rob,

Sorry, I’m pretty new to this site and dont remember coming across that post xD

But i read it and 100% agree

“Is this damage control from his agent or Fox because he spoke too soon?”
Yes, that is exactly what it was, no doubt about it. It fits.

I also posted this, but I didnt update it after the second tweet because I knew it was a forced fake message that really isnt coming from Pocock, but from 20th century Fox

And I have to make one small minuscule observation about your current post:

Part of Nortons quote was:
“In the comics, there was always-” STOP RIGHT THERE.

Okay, I dont see Edward Norton reading comic books. The guy went to Yale and hes always since college been 100% dedicated to acting and now hes a screenwriter, director and producer. Im not saying that these factors mean that he doesnt read comic books….its just…I don’t see Ed Norton picking up a comic book. Not even after being casted as the Hulk do I see him doing that, he read the script, and helped producing it, but I dont see him obsessng over the Avengers.

Measly observation #2

He was asked about the Hulk being a bad guy, and Edward said what he “read in the comics” about it, and then followed it with:
“I think that’s a fun way to go with it”

I can translate that quote with what it TRULLY meant

“Yeah…that’d be nice, but its not going to happen”

By: Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:25:43 +0000

@ James,

I thought the same on the topic. Did you read my post on the First Class thing and his tweet?:

http://screenrant.com/plan-xmen-class-rob-26365/

I had written my post on it and published just as he posted his retraction so I immediately updated it when it happened.

By: James

James — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:27:19 +0000

And by saying that hes not Tim Pocock i meant

Ed Norton is careful on never ever spilling stuff he shouldnt say, youll never catch him saying
“Hey im going to be playing the Hulk in the Avengers sequel”

Hes very carefull about this and very professional, probably because hes close to directors and he’s used to being in charge when hes in a movie.

Tim Pocock on the other hand, im 100% sure Tweeted the x-men message AS SOON as his agent (or someone) told him the First Class movie is a go. As SOON as he heard about it.

By: James

James — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:22:32 +0000

Rob Keyes

I think it is, and heres why…so he tweeted that there would be an X-MEN first class movie and hed be in it, right?

Well- as soon as he re-tweeted and changed hs status to ‘Cruel prank, scratch what i just said about X-Men” it told me that as soon as he tweeted his first XMEN status, 20th Century Fox (or someone) called him and told him

‘Hey, genius, DONT TWEET ABOUT THIS, its not supposed to be public yet! make another tweet and this is what we want you to say….”

He obviously has an inside on this, and his knowledge combined with his young carelessness….the result was, the famous tweet.

I think it would be the Tweet of the month if Obama wouldn’t have called Kanye a jackass on his Twitter

By: Hyatt Romeo

Hyatt Romeo — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:53:14 +0000

I would like to see Hulk team up with the Avengers in the Avengers film, but I think if they were to do it correctly, they would need to incorporate how the Hulk, no matter how he tries, always ends up causing destruction and problems for those around him, even when he’s trying to help. This internal conflict between Bruce Banner, one of the world’s most brilliant minds, and his angry, primitive Hulk side which “only wants to be left alone” is such an integral part of the Hulk’s psyche and character, I don’t see how they could do it justice without that. The World War Hulk story would be a great one to see….

By: The Pitt Man

The Pitt Man — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:31:43 +0000

The Hulk issue.

Solution: Gray intelligent Hulk.

And… one storyline that invaded all of marveldom, that could be utilized is ACTS OF VENGENCE.

Years down the road, when movie budgets are in the billions, perhaps a Movie trilogy inspired by a marvel cross-over (that didn’t work the best in comics, but would be great cinematically)and all the villains would switch opponents in order to take the heroes off guard, they almost defeated their foes. (I think Spidey had Capt. Universe powers.)

Thor fought Juggernaut, it was decent to say the least.

By: Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:56:06 +0000

… The first part about First Class start next year I mean… Not the retraction, heh

By: Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:55:18 +0000

@ James,

LOL: “hes not exactly Tim Pocock.”

By that, you’re saying what was twittered on Pocock’s account was true?

By: John "Kahless" Taylor

John "Kahless" Taylor — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:44:22 +0000

Just because he won’t have a cameo in IM2 doesn’t mean we won’t see a crossover. At the end, we may see some blond haired doctor with a cane, or Stark hearing a voice but can’t see him until he looks down at the table (Antman), or some black guy with an African accent (Black Panther), or we may see Norton. I’m sure Marvel will not disappoint.

By: Johnny-K of Norway

Johnny-K of Norway — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:21:01 +0000

As I said before- if Norton say no to play in avengers, we have the avengers chasing the hulk, and ends with hulk face down in the dirt- there you have your beginning.

If he is on board, like it seems for now, you need banner- proberbly trying to fix his hulk problem, goes wrong- bigger bader hulk(grey) and the avengers fight him- or if smart evil grey hulk, could join up with rest of the supervillans..

Anyway- it is sad he does not have a cameo in Iron man 2, I would like more corssovers plz…

By: Steve Scotland

Steve Scotland — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:07:15 +0000

this seems similar to when everyone was denying the NICK FURY cameo in iron man1

By: Richard Alexander

Richard Alexander — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:16:00 +0000

I am sure Marvels President and Stan Lee will have input for a awesome Story / Avengers Movie !!! Everybody can be creative if you have a above talented artist!!!!!!! Then Story Script Writer!!!!!!! Do not Forget Captain Marvel a strong force of his own fighting a long with Thor and Iron Man and alongside Avengers Vs Thanos Now that would be Exciting !!!!!!!! Then possibly Black Panther on a Mission Observing Galactuses Activity!!!!! Wonder Man and Vision On Hand to assist the team!!!!!! Hopeful Wishes !!!!! There doing things right by doing Iron Man 2 Captain America Then Thor !!!!!!!! Avengers Major followup !!!! We all know Iron 519 Million Highest grossing Summer Movie for 2008!!!!!! Avengers needs to break all Records!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Disneys On Board!!!!!!! More Momentum for the Future !!!!!!! I Cannot Wait !!!!!! I wished I could have my artist and myself to submit Ideas !!!!!! I wish them great success and look forward to It!!!!!!!! Best of Success!!!!!!!!

By: Haggislaw

Haggislaw — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:15:56 +0000

Evil Guy tricks Hulk into atking the Avengers…
Avengers are outmatched with Evil Guy and Hulk smacking on them.
Last minutes of the Film: Hulk realizes that Evil Guy is bad and goes Hulk Smash on Bad Guy!!!

See waht I did there?