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Gives Edward Norton the thumbs up!
Now that he’s come out and said it himself, I can tell you Eric Bana was against doing a “Hulk” sequel from day one. He liked the experience of doing the first film, but didn’t really feel there was anywhere to go for the character if they’d done a direct sequel to Ang Lee’s film.
The big guy talked to Australia’s Herald-Sun newspaper about the upcoming redo/remake/sequel “The Incredible Hulk” today; noting that he was never keen on playing Bruce Banner again, whilst giving new Hulk, Edward Norton, the thumbs up.
Bana, back in town for the premiere of his new Aussie film “Romulus, My Father”, ssays “If it came up in the right amount of time I might have [done it] but, you know, in an ideal world it has not been a bad thing for me. I think it’s even better that they’ve got a new guy and better again that they’ve got someone of the calibre of Edward Norton.
“You know, I can’t wait to see it. And I suppose if they had’ve come back in the right amount of time I wouldn’t have been doing films like Munich”.
Bana says he only ever really wanted to do the first one.
“I never went into the first one thinking I was going to do three films. I don’t think the word franchise, or the word sequel. To me it always appeared as a one-off opportunity”.
