Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy) and David Eick (Battlestar Galactica) are near finalizing a deal to bring the Hulk back to television screens. However, there’s a catch – because of the amount of prep work for such a series, and perhaps not to conflict with the new movie, such a project wouldn’t hit television screens until 2012, after the Avengers movie comes out.
Read more details at HulkTV.net.
Not content to let Warner Bros. have all the fun with announcements of a new Wonder Woman TV show, The Hollywood Reporter has uncovered details that the Jeph Loeb-helmed Marvel Television and Disney-owned ABC are developing a TV return for the Incredible Hulk.
THR says that the Hulk is one of two projects that is a top priority for Marvel Television. The second high priority is Cloak & Dagger which is being developed as a possibility for ABC Family.
Gullermo del Toro and Battlestar Galactica’s David Eick are both expected to pitch their takes on the Hulk.
THR also posted a list that has been circulating of other possible top Marvel properties to be adapted to TV. Those shows include:
Heroes For Hire (Power Man & Iron Fist on TV? Yes, please.)
The Eternals
Agents of Atlas
Alter Ego (Based on the Brian Michael Bendis series Alias)
Moon Knight
The Hood
Ka-Zar (Because Tarzan on TV did oh so well)
Daughters of the Dragon (Can’t they be on Heroes for Hire?)
The Punisher (being eyed for cable)
This also brings up a good question for our readers: Where on the KryptonSite/KSiteTV Network would you like to read more about a Hulk TV show? We put up a poll, and thus far, people have suggested they’d like the Hulk to get his own KSite Network destination…. there’s not much there yet, but hopefully HulkTV.net will be a destination everyone will come to know if a series does happen. As for future/other Marvel TV developments that might not be so big… we may keep them here at Avengersite and make this site movies-only, moving TV news entirely to KSiteTV. We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.
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Mark Ruffalo is the new Hulk on the block, replacing Edward Norton in the upcoming Avengers film, and Entertainment Weekly has spoken with him about this new role – revealing a surprising connection in the process.
“I’m a friend of Ed’s, and yeah, that wasn’t a great way for all that to go down,” Ruffalo said of the sudden replacement of Norton. “But the way I see it is that Ed has bequeathed this part to me. I look at it as my generation’s Hamlet.”
He says shooting may start in the Winter. In playing the role of Bruce Banner, Ruffalo sees the character as a “guy struggling with two sides of himself — the dark and the light.” “Everything he does in his life is filtered through issues of control. I grew up on the Bill Bixby TV series, which I thought was a really nuanced and real human way to look at The Hulk. I like that the part has those qualities,” he says.
You can read the entire EW piece on their website. Thanks to Jason for the tip.
Now following recent reports that Edward Norton will not be playing Bruce Banner/The Hulk in the upcoming team movie The Avengers, Norton’s agent has responded to Hitfix.com with an exclusive statement.
You can read the agent’s statement at their site.
