Even the screenwriter of Ang Lee’s Hulk likes the Incredible Hulk better
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?This weekend, millions of moviegoers will see the new, improved Incredible Hulk, as action-packed as screenwriter Michael France envisioned him years ago.
Actually, the St. Pete Beach resident did more than envision the Hulk; he co-wrote the screenplay for the 2003 film about the Marvel Comics icon.
The other day, France and his son Tommy, 10, joined me at an advance screening of 2008’s The Incredible Hulk. His verdict: It was the kind of movie he’d wanted to make five years ago.
Come again?
Ang Lee’s 2003 Hulk focused on the tortured relationship between scientist Bruce Banner and his father. France’s script included that aspect, but Lee chose to expand it, at the expense of gargantuan action by the green-skinned creature Banner becomes when he’s angry.
“What I saw with the new film, is one that has two sides to it: a dramatic side exploring how tough it is for Banner to live with this problem every day, and the huge action pieces that you’d see in the old Tales to Astonish comic books,” France said.
- from Tampa