(Both planned projects are currently scheduled for 2011.)
There’s also a direct link to the early summer hit Iron Man, the first film from Marvel’s own production company, building on intimations in that film of a cross-over Avengers film. While not retelling the Hulk’s gamma-ray induced origin story in detail, the filmmakers reimagine it in a way that elegantly blends the comic-book and TV versions, while simultaneously tying in with plans for an upcoming Captain America movie. They’ve also assiduously set out to connect with two overlapping but distinct fan bases: those who know the Hulk from the comic books, and those who know him from the 1970s-era TV show starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. (Why paltry action doesn’t sink a truly lame flick like Fantastic Four, which of all the new comic-book films most deserved a reboot but was unaccountably popular and thus merited a sequel, is too depressing a question to think about.)Īt any rate, The Incredible Hulk, directed by Louis Leterrier ( The Transporter) from a script by Zak Penn ( X2, X‑Men 3) and star Edward Norton, sets out to be the anti-Ang Hulk, with the straightfoward agenda of keeping the emphasis on the action. These are legitimate gripes, though the film’s psychological depth and creative storytelling still make it one of the more intriguing efforts in the genre. That’s only good business, I guess, considering the low esteem in which Hulk is held by the fan base, largely for weak, scattered action scenes, too much talking and a head-scratching finale. Ang’s Hulk, along with the Spider-Man trilogy, Batman Begins and Superman Returns, belongs to this new era, so a reboot here is a glaring slight to the earlier film.
The new era of comic-book movies began in 2000 with the first of the three X‑Men films. By 1997, both the era and the franchise had been run into the ground. The Batman franchise ran four films over eight years, and belonged to an era of comic-book movies that began in 1978 with Superman. Coming only five years after the Ang film, this is a bit awkward - much more so than with the eight years separating Batman Begins from the last film of the previous Batman franchise, for instance.
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