Edward Norton and Marvel are Playing a Game of Avengers Chicken
While promoting his Obama documentary at the TCA press tour yesterday, Edward Norton was asked whether his Hulk would factor into Marvel's impending superhero supergroup movie, The Avengers. "I probably won't comment on that just because they keep a pretty tight rein on what they are letting out," said the actor (who notoriously feuded with Marvel and refused to do much press after making The Incredible Hulk), adding "I'll let them [address it]."
Oh, but they have! At Comic-Con, Marvel's president of production, Kevin Feige, was asked about exactly that, and his caginess indicated that things haven't exactly been smoothed over with the actor.
First, Feige was thrown a softball: Will the Hulk be in The Avengers? "I think so," he said noncommittally. "In the comics, he has." That's an understatement, as the Hulk (alongside Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor) is regarded as a core member of the Marvel team.
Then, when asked whether Marvel's relations with Norton had improved to the point where he'd do the film, Feige admitted, "I don't know. You should ask him."
Now he has been, so...tag, you're it?
· Hulk's Edward Norton mum on Avengers [Sci Fi Wire]
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I don't blame Norton for being disappointed with Marvel's finished "Hulk" product. I would not have expected him to have signed on to do such a low brow, unremarkable, genera flick. Marvel is clearly not interested in making an intelligent movie so why not forget the Hulk reboot and bring back Eric Bana from the Hulk of 2003?
Although The Hulk was an original member of the Avengers he left almost immediately (at the end of issue #2 actually). So to call him a "core member" is a little excessive. He is the easiest character to leave out of the final movie in case budget constraints get in the way.
Ed Norton ---by his sins of comfort-zone omission --
now joins the rest of Hollywood -and the entire western media
and entertainment establishment in helping to bury the revelation
of the most awesome halocaust in all human history over there
across the Pacific in our 'fave' creditor's realm.
That's right -70 million human beings murdered in 'peacetime'
and NEVER outted or answered for. You know who I'm talking
about? -hmmm?
CLUE --
-those same people are probably underwriting this film
production.
Sorry ED ---you're guilty.
-CASE CLOSED-
Just because the Hulk is in the Avengers does not mean Banner has to be. The hulk left in issue #2 of the avengers and I do not think he ever reverted into Banner in the 2 issues he was in.