Marvel: 16 years ago, this actor’s behavior caused the studio to make a radical decision

16 years ago, when Kevin Feige and Jon Favreau were still laying the groundwork for what would soon become the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a new feature film about the green giant from the House of Ideas hit theaters.

In 2008, before Mark Ruffalo finally resurrected the character from The First Avengers, it was Edward Norton who lent his features to Bruce Banner in front of Louis Leterrier’s camera. But as just mentioned Article from Looperwhich cites recent works MCU: Reign of Marvel Studios The feature film signed by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzalez and Gavin Edwards was not easy to produce.

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Two different visions and a new rule

Indeed, as we learn in one chapter of the book, Edward Norton clearly had a very particular vision for the project and wanted to take the character on the path we know. Initially authorized by the production to intervene in the script, his contribution to the script was eventually significantly reduced, the studio decided to take back control of the film.

Still, according to speakers interviewed in the book, this somewhat difficult experience would lead the production to establish a new policy so that creative control of future feature films would now be in the hands of the producers.

“Something Big, Dark and Serious”

According to Interview with New York Times Magazine (Also reports Looper’s articleEdward Norton had a much more serious film in mind, closer to the Dark Knight trilogy:

“I really liked the Hulk comics, I thought they were legendary. I followed the path that Christopher Nolan took for Batman: something big, dark and serious.”– he said in 2019.

“If anything had that potential, it was the Hulk. It’s literally the myth of Prometheus. I pitched two film projects: Origins and then the idea of ​​the Hulk as a lucid dreamer, a guy who made it. To control delirium. They said to me, ‘This is the What we want!’ But it turned out not to be the case. But I had a lot of fun making the movie. I had a great time with Kevin Feige.”

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