{"id":1246,"date":"2008-01-06T01:11:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T01:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2008-01-06T01:11:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T01:11:45","slug":"the_hulk_returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/06\/the_hulk_returns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hulk Returns…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting… I just learned from Michael May’s Adventure Blog<\/a> that there’s another Hulk movie in the works, something of a surprise considering that Ang Lee’s dismal and ridiculous take on the character<\/a> didn’t exactly set the world on fire. I guess you can’t keep a good (potential) movie franchise down.<\/p>\n

This new film<\/a>, titled The Incredible Hulk<\/i>, is apparently intended to be something of a reboot, even though it’s not explicitly billed as such. The entire cast has been changed out, with Edward Norton now playing the modern-day Jeckyll-and-Hyde character Bruce Banner, and, while the Hulk’s origin story isn’t going to be retold, I gather that the events of the first film will not be mentioned. The tone of the movie is said to echo the old ’70s-vintage TV series, and Norton reportedly<\/a> won the role of Banner in part because he reminded the filmmakers of the late Bill Bixby<\/a>, who starred in the TV version.<\/p>\n

The echoes of the old Incredible Hulk<\/i> are pretty obvious in this photo from the new film:<\/p>\n

\"Gamma<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare that to this screen-grab from the opening credits of Bixby’s Hulk<\/i>:<\/p>\n

\"Vintage<\/a><\/p>\n

Look familiar? I’m sure it’s no coincidence, and I hope this obvious homage is a sign that the filmmakers know what they’re doing. The Hulk isn’t one of my favorite superheroes, but I enjoyed the TV series when I was a kid, and I’d like to see a good feature film version. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this will be it.<\/p>\n

There are a few more photos here<\/a>, if you’re interested. Oh, and as a technical note, that screen-grab from vintage Hulk<\/i> is my very first one. Cool, eh? Well, I thought so…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting… I just learned from Michael May’s Adventure Blog that there’s another Hulk movie in the works, something of a surprise considering that Ang Lee’s dismal and ridiculous take on the character didn’t exactly set the world on fire. I guess you can’t keep a good (potential) movie franchise down. This new film, titled The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}