Why Marvel Decided to reboot the Hulk…

“Ang Lee explored one percent of the Hulk mythos: Bruce Banner’s childhood and the trauma that allowed this creature that burst forth,” says Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. “We wanted to explore the other 99 percent.”

Of course, Edward Norton has replaced Eric Bana as Bruce Banner. But “TIH” starts out with Banner on the run in Latin America, just as he was when last seen at the end of the 2003 movie. And the second film sets out to be not so much a sequel as a merger of the comic book and TV series versions of the Hulk.

From the TV series, look for the idea of Bruce Banner as a man on the run, forever searching for a cure. Also look for glimpses of an origin story close to what TV fans remember: Banner in a big lab chair, getting dosed with gamma rays.

From the comics, there’s the return of Banner’s love Betty Ross, played by Liv Tyler. William Hurt plays her father, Gen. Thunderbolt Ross, the Army man obsessed with capturing the Hulk. “He’s Ahab and Hulk is the whale,” says producer Gale Ann Hurd, “You’ll see in the movie little nods to that.”

- From Variety