70 million ‘peacetime’ murders -completely unanswered for
and STILL going on in places like North Korea, Tibet,
Dafur and Inner Mongolia.

Of course Ed and Hollywood wouldn’t dream of endangering
their mass-marketer’s wet dreams -or those junk-credit
finance lines.

—-right ED?

So for my money I think its a done deal and Norton and company are just being really hush, hush about the whole thing so as not to spoil it for the fans and for the film itself! When you think about it its a natural fit for the Hulk to be a bit of a foil for the Avengers as he was so in the comic series! I really think though Marvel just doesn’t know what exactly to do with the Hulk character as he has never really been a stand alone comic character he has always, always had a foil or something or someone to chase! Aside for the television series and the made for tv movies Hulk has never been on his own.

He needs something to shoot for, something to battle, something to give him a run for his money to prove his strength and ability and that’s why I think he’s going to be in the new Avengers and possibly the Iron Man 2 movie?! What do you guys think about that????

True but then what good are contracts if people can be allowed to ignore them? When you are looking at a massive multi-title project that reliaes on repate appearences of the same actor/actress to preserve visual continuity it can be very costly in both dollars and quality of the story when an actor/actress walks away because they are in disagreement with some part of the production.

They have the time before they sign on to evaluate the project and decide if they want to commit or not and so long as they aren’t being asked to do something inappropriate that was not previously agreed to such as an impromptu/unplanned nude scene then they shoudl have to suck it up and do it. These are celebrities we are talkinga bout; many of whom are way over paid for what they do just like professional atheletes. I realizes that not all performers are over paid; just a small few. But because they are often paid so much is all the more reaosn they should be required to do what they agreed to even if they have “creative” differences.

I’d have more sympathy for Norton and others if they weren’t so over compensated for their talenmt. i know that help contribute to that over compensation by continuing to pay to see tehir movies but I can still expect that they in return act like adults and not children.

If they really want to prove that it is all about the craft of acting then they should agree to do the film for nothing up front and take only a small percentage of what teh movie makes. That way if it is good then they will make a lot and if not then they will make little. Under that kind of agreement I would see it as being acceptable for the actor to be involved with telling the director/producer what to do. Otherwise its the director & prodcuers call with the producer, the person with all their own money on the line, making the final call.

That being said a good producer knows when its appropriate to step in and more importantly when to let the director do their job instead of trying to micro manage the production. I do agree that too often studios backing a film financially get to involved with the films production reuslting in something that is junk that could have been something better.

He is a godd even great actor, but no one actor or actress is THAT good; so good that everyone else revolves around thier whims & needs. The music industry was bad about catering to the whims of it’s biggest stars and n the end we all pay a price for that from cancelled to disappointing shopws all because the star is acting like a spoiled rotten brat.

I look forward to seeing Norton in the Avengers. It seems to me that either Norton will portray Bruce Banner in the movie, or no one will.

am I sure? No I’m speculating but I think that’s what he meant. Not positive of course.

Are you sure? This is what Norton said when asked about his return:

“It’s purely a function of time… It’s always about just working things out on the schedule.”

“I get very busy. You have to deal with the demands of your moment… I tend to keep my head in the thing I’m doing and I don’t speculate or worry too much about what two or three blocks down the thing is going to be. I know all these things will reveal themselves and work themselves out.”

when Norton says “it’s only a function of time” he means that the Hulk will appear in the Avengers or as in it’s own sequel but not necessarily Norton playing Banner.

That said, they’d need to bring him back for The Avengers.

why aren’t you looking forward to Thor?

Well, he’s happy about Obama being president…