The Incredible Ed Norton...

[fajrdrako]

There has been interesting talk about the upcoming movie about The Incredible Hulk ever since San Diego Comic Con, when Ed Norton surprisingly and unexpectedly announced that he was the writer. Here's an item about it.

Now, if you saw the last movie version of The Incredible Hulk, starring the talented Eric Bana, you'll know that it was (a) the worst movie Ang Lee ever made,¹ and (b) nothing like the comic.

If you saw X-Men: The Last Stand, you'll remember that the script was not the strong point of that movie. It was... pretty bad. I haven't seen Elektra, because she's a Marvel character I love and I've heard nothing good about the movie. So getting Zab Penn off the script is probably a really good idea. Why not get Bruce Jones as scriptwriter? Or Peter David? Both are writers whose skill and experience - not to mention knowledge of the character - would bode well for a movie script.

I am so tired of seeing bad movies made about good comic book characters.

But... Ed Norton. He's also starring in the movie as Bruce Banner - it's a good sign they aren't renaming him David. If he can write as well as he can act, we'll probably get a good movie.

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall for all this.

Or... maybe not.

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¹ Or a contender to be one of the worst movies anyone ever made. Part of a long list of 'movies that just don't work'.

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Not many people have been the comic book addicts I have always been! I love them... but I have already read books a lot, too. These days, when possible, I get my comics from the public library as well - something that used to be entirely impossible, but which is now sometimes possible. Comics have become appallingly expensive, but the quality has increased as well.