Incredible Hulk is implied to be a sequel in that there has been 5 years passing since the first movie. Much news reported that this was a redux ignoring the first, but now we get contradicting reports.

Not really news. It’s been back and fourth since they announced the new film. The general public (outside of the internet community, comics fans, film freaks such as ourselves etc) will regard ‘Incredible Hulk’ like a sequel, just with a new cast.

I can think of two possibles, both out there in lala land:

1) It is mostly ambigous. Nothing from the 2003 film is directly mentioned. If so, it is one or two thowaway lines connecting it and that’s that.

2) The 2003 film is mentioned, but in a big surprise, the film opens up with Uatu The Watcher, and says what you saw in 2003 was an alternate universe. *This* is the real deal, and now Uatu must go to fix what happened in “Fantastic Four Rise Of The Silver Surfer” and find out whats up with the stormcloud

And man, I’m holding out hope for the G.I.Joe movie but I’m starting to think the filmmakers listen to the podcast and are playing some sick, twisted game with Doug to get him furious so he’ll rant about the movie some more and give it some free publicity.