As a Disney shareholder, you should be on your feet for what they pulled off.” I went and did all the other things I wanted to do, and what Kevin Feige has done is probably one of the best executions of a business plan in the history of the entertainment industry. But that’s not why I would’ve wanted to do another Hulk movie anyway. After Norton was replaced in 2010, the Marvel chief released a statement saying the studio’s decision was “definitely not one based on monetary factors, but instead rooted in the need for an actor who embodies the creativity and collaborative spirit of our other talented cast members.”Īs for the detail about “monetary factors,” Norton revealed that he “honestly would’ve wanted more money than they’d have wanted to pay me. I got on great with Kevin Feige.”Īt the time, though, it seems otherwise. And they were like, ‘That’s what we want!’ As it turned out, that wasn’t what they wanted. I laid out a two-film thing: The origin and then the idea of Hulk as the conscious dreamer, the guy who can handle the trip. “If there was ever a thing that I thought had that in it, it was the Hulk. “What Chris Nolan had done with Batman was going down a path that I aligned with: long, dark and serious,” Norton said.
In an interview with the New York Times, Norton revisited the ordeal, saying that Marvel had apparently been in support of his vision to make a serious Hulk film, in the vein of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, before sprinting in the opposite direction. Much has been made of the missed opportunity, as well as the fact that Norton was eventually replaced by Mark Ruffalo in The Avengers. Edward Norton’s 2008 The Incredible Hulk is one of the rare Marvel misses of the last few years, a stab at something darker and heavier than the sunny, comedic MCU that began to take shape that same year in Iron Man.
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