Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Info on The Incredible Hulk film

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The Incredible Hulk is a superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk. It is directed by Louis Leterrier and stars Edward Norton as Bruce Banner, Liv Tyler as Betty Ross, William Hurt as her father General Thaddeus Ross and Tim Roth as the villainous Emil Blonsky, known in the Hulk comics as the Abomination.

The film follows Banner as a fugitive in South America attempting to find a cure to the condition that turns him into the Hulk. he flees the pursuit of the United States Army and the Hulkbusters led by General Ross and a semi-retired special forces commander Emil Blonsky, who wants his power. When Blonsky personally volunteers to be injected with Banner's gamma formula to aid Ross in his capture, he becomes a monster stronger and more powerful than the Hulk, and Banner must accept his inner beast to defeat Blonsky.

After the 2003 film Hulk, Marvel Studios reacquired the rights to the character, and writer Zak Penn began work on a reboot that would be much closer to the comics and the television series. Norton rewrote the script after he signed on to star, severing all ties to its predecessor by retelling the origin story in flashbacks and revelations. Filming of principal photography mostly took place in Toronto, Canada in 2007, and the film's crew went to great lengths to reduce the production's carbon emissions. Letterier's direction aimed to make the monsters look more realistic and frightening, and also show Bruce Banner's struggle with the monster inside of him. He redesigned the Abomination, who in the comics is a reptilian KGB agent, into a mutant soldier with bony protrusions.

More info on the film can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk_(film)

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