I wonder sometimes where the ideas are in Hollywood and just how they come about. Have you seen those Orange Mobile cinema adverts in the UK, where a panel of Orange Sales guys listen to a move star pitch their latest idea? They string them along and twist their vision into a story about mobile phones, texting, video messaging, anything that is something far removed from the actual pitch they came in with. They are funny, and is one of the reasons for going to the cinema, really they’re that good, I’ve been in with the whole audience laughing at them.
So when you hear a story like this from Film Rotation (originally from Total Film Magazine through Super Hero Hype), you wonder if it isn’t actually too far removed from the real thing.
An interview with Avi Arad over at Marvel Films gave the following wonderful insight into the next Hulk movie:
“In the next movie, Hulk 2, the Hulk will be smaller. If you make him 15-feet tall, there’s no human connection there…..Right now we are still developing the sequel. I think the key thing is to come up with the right story.”
The article also says we are promised, ‘less angst and a lot more Hulk smashing,’ and that Bruce Banner will become more comfortable with his big green side.
Okay, so let’s analyse that for a moment. We’re going to end up with a character who, in human form, likes to change into this human sized green bodybuilder type and smash and destroy things in a huge rage with no care for people or property? To me that doesn’t sound like it can go anywhere, what’s going to be there to associate with the character? Is the plot just going to end up being defeat the baddie by turning into big green thing and destroying everything?
The angst of battling with the creature was one of the best facets of the story, the creature is one part of the human character repressed and hidden through ages of evolution and is the embodiment of a desire and release that the human just does not want to be. Yet he’s now comfortable with the fact he turns into this creature that is a danger to all around him?
I don’t get it. Oh, and they’re right over at FilmRot too, a short arsed Hulk just isn’t the answer, angst, turmoil and huge creature. That’s the Hulk.
