A moderately diverting piece about Edward Norton's screenwriting adventures, most recently (and in fact presently) on the new Incredible Hulk film, as reported by L.A. Times "Scriptland" columnist Jay A. Fernandez. (Was it ever settled about Norton's Hulk being gray and not green? If the producers have any balls they'll go with the former. How can anyone look at a green Hulk and not be reminded of Ang Lee?)

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 15, 2007 at 3:35 PM
comment #1
swissarmadillo
says ...
At Comic Con, Kevin Feige and Gale Anne Hurd showed a concept image of the Hulk, and he was both green and quite feral in appearance.
Posted by swissarmadillo
at August 15, 2007 3:58 PM
comment #2
Rothchild
says ...
I love Norton, but it was a total dick move to volunteer during the panel that he "wrote the screenplay." Yeah, you did a rewrite after another actual professional screenwriter worked on it for a year and a half.
Posted by Rothchild
at August 15, 2007 4:52 PM
comment #3
source188
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I'll take an Edward Norton screenplay over a Zak Penn screenplay any day of the week.
Posted by source188
at August 15, 2007 4:55 PM
comment #4
Rothchild
says ...
Yeah, but it's not an Ed Norton screenplay. He acted like he was writing something from scratch. This has nothing to do with whether one guy is more talented than the other.
Posted by Rothchild
at August 15, 2007 5:06 PM
comment #5
OddDuck
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Rothchild, you're absolutely right. Complete dick move on Norton's part.
source188, you're also absolutely right. Final product's gonna be way more interesting because of Norton's intervention.
Posted by OddDuck
at August 15, 2007 5:14 PM
comment #6
erniesouchak
says ...
Are you sure he appears larger than Tyler when next to her? She's a big girl.
Posted by erniesouchak
at August 15, 2007 5:16 PM
comment #7
OddDuck
says ...
But to be fair, I'll take an asshole with the better screenplay any day of the week.
Posted by OddDuck
at August 15, 2007 5:16 PM
comment #8
source188
says ...
Zak Penn did a number of re-writes, all of which were rejected. Norton came in and volunteered (or better yet agreed to be in the film if) to write the screenplay, now I don't know if it's from scratch but it must be as it would quite pointless and brainless to be doing re-writes of a script that was rejected time and time again. And according to a comingsoon.net article, Norton is writing the movie as production moves along so I'm sure Norton is more in charge of this movie than even the director is and in that I confide. Come one, admit it, better off that Norton is running the shots than Zak Penn and Louis Leterrier....no matter how "dick-like" it may seem of Norton.
Posted by source188
at August 15, 2007 5:22 PM
comment #9
Rothchild
says ...
You're out of your mind. You either have bad information or have no reading comprehension. "He did a number of re-writes, all of which were rejected." He wrote the script that started it all!
Zak Penn came up with the approach for the sequel, the plot, the character, the structure, the dialogue, and the villains. He figured out how they were going to depart from Ang Lee's film tonally. He came up with everything. He wrote several drafts (which you do on every project -- I've written more than ten sometimes) that were all accepted at Marvel Films and loved.
That's why he's writing The Avengers and several other projects for him, and that's why they got all the big name (sans Mr. Transporter) on to the project. Because of his script. When Norton asked if he could do a pass on the script, they said, "yes." Why? He may be a great writer, but they just didn't want to lose their lead. He does this on all his movies now. If they say no, he walks. End of story.
Posted by Rothchild
at August 15, 2007 5:29 PM
comment #10
Rothchild
says ...
Still remember, at the end of the day, it's not just an Ed Norton screenplay. It's a rewrite of an existing screenplay. If you gave Ed Norton a copy of Final Draft, a laptop, and a bottle of scotch and said, "go write a super hero film" it may be interesting...but what the fuck does he know about writing an entertaining mainstream blockbuster? I guarantee the movie would be fascinating, and we'd talk about it for weeks, but Marvel would never hire Norton to write a film this important from scratch. And no matter how much involvement he'll have in the movie, it's not like it will ever be solely an Ed Norton joint.
Posted by Rothchild
at August 15, 2007 5:32 PM
comment #11
source188
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to Rothchild: Yes re-writes! of his own script for godsakes! He may have written AN approach for the sequel but it was, like i said, rejected. Norton is writing the thing as it goes so how confident are you that Penn's original outline is still intact here? And looks like he's moved on to bigger and better crap-fair like The Avengers, nuff said.
Posted by source188
at August 15, 2007 5:39 PM
comment #12
Rothchild
says ...
NOTHING WAS REJECTED.
NOTHING WAS REJECTED.
They had a shooting script. That Penn wrote. Norton said, "hey, can I do a pass on it?" They said, "yes."
NOTHING WAS REJECTED.
Do you know what a pass is? You take a script and say, "maybe he should have a monologue here." "Maybe we should cut out this scene." "Let's have the opening be at a wedding." You tinker with an EXISTING SCRIPT.
Watch, I guarantee that Zak Penn will get sole credit on the final film. Again, Norton may be improving the EXISTING SCRIPT but nothing Penn wrote was rejected.
Posted by Rothchild
at August 15, 2007 5:42 PM
comment #13
source188
says ...
easy Rothchild, in the end....this whole thing is a re-hash of a lame super-hero flick based on perhaps the lamest of super-heros....a re-hash only made interesting by Norton's involvement....by that of which I mean, Edward Norton is writing the film's screenplay.
Posted by source188
at August 15, 2007 5:47 PM
comment #14
Rothchild
says ...
Scott Frank did a month of work on A Night at the Museum before they went into production. If someone says, "Scott Frank, didn't you write Night at the Museum?" He'd say, "I did some work on it." Or, "I did a pass on it." Or, "I did a production rewrite." He'd never say, "I wrote Night at the Museum." That's the difference between Scott Frank, any professional screenwriter in town, and Ed Norton and you. I've never once implied the film will be worse because of his involvement. But he's not "the writer of The Incredible Hulk."
I'm done here. You're just going to be an asshole and never admit you're wrong. It's not like I'd think badly of you. I'd think you were a classy dude.
Posted by Rothchild
at August 15, 2007 5:51 PM
comment #15
source188
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okay Rothchild, I'm wrong and you are absolutely right. Goodnight.
Posted by source188
at August 15, 2007 5:58 PM
comment #16
MASON
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Now go get your shinebox.
Posted by MASON
at August 15, 2007 6:02 PM
comment #17
Rothchild
says ...
I think it's interesting how the film has slowly changed from being a loose sequel to the Ang Lee version, to a Hulk Begins type of a thing. And while I'm a fan of a well crafter mindless action film (Shoot 'Em Up is a goddamn riot), having the director of Transporter 2 tackling this project still rubs me the wrong way. There were a lot of things I dug about Danny the Dog/Unleashed, but I'm sure Marvel has a reason for using this guy.
Favreau and Vaughn are genius choices, and we already know (or are pretty sure) that the first one panned out. Let's hope Besson's protege does a good job on this one.
Posted by Rothchild
at August 15, 2007 6:09 PM
comment #18
christian
says ...
for no good reason, it reminds me of "on the waterfront again" from sctv. bobby bitman says he thinks he brings something to the role "that frankly brando might have missed..."
Posted by christian
at August 15, 2007 6:12 PM
comment #19
jimjonesiii
says ...
norton looks like dustin hoffmann`s lost son.
let`s pray for a cameo of hoffmann plus a bunch of hulk-dogs.
Posted by jimjonesiii
at August 15, 2007 6:31 PM
comment #20
christian
says ...
HULK-DOGS SMASH!
Posted by christian
at August 15, 2007 7:12 PM
comment #21
malibugigolo
says ...
Ed Norton is such a tool.
Posted by malibugigolo
at August 15, 2007 10:39 PM
comment #22
storymark
says ...
So, how often does constantly rewriting a script durring production turn out to be a good thing?
Posted by storymark
at August 15, 2007 10:54 PM
comment #23
CharlieDontSurf
says ...
Ed Norton would take credit for just about everything if he could.
Hulk is a Zak Penn script.
Norton's contribution was probably something like 10-25%. But if the movie is a disaster he'll say he just touched up his own dialogue.
Posted by CharlieDontSurf
at August 15, 2007 11:02 PM
comment #24
MovieBob
says ...
"(Was it ever settled about Norton's Hulk being gray and not green? If the producers have any balls they'll go with the former. How can anyone look at a green Hulk and not be reminded of Ang Lee?)"
In all the early pre-release teaser stuff, he's green albeit a different shade of such.
What you've got to understand is that making Hulk gray is more than a stylistic decision as far as basic Hulk mythology is concerned, so with Marvel making the movie on their own it probably wouldn't be done arbitrarily: "Gray Hulk" is a wholly different "version" of Banner's angrier-half, with a seperate personality. So far, I haven't heard any mention of this character being in the movie (it wouldn't make sense, as one of the heavies is supposed to be "Abomination," ANOTHER hulk-sized monster who's gray.)
Posted by MovieBob
at August 16, 2007 12:07 AM
comment #25
fnt
says ...
Rothchild, my honest thanks for setting a Norton fanboy straight on how things actually work. Zak Penn is Marvel's go-to guy. What's he written, like half their projects. Do the math. Just because Norton's a good actor doesn't mean he's a great writer.
I seem to recall a little movie called KEEPING THE FAITH.
Posted by fnt
at August 16, 2007 12:47 AM
comment #26
Rothchild
says ...
It's just in anticipation for when the same thing happens to me. I don't know Penn from Adam, and I hate to sound like a whiny screenwriter, but a lot of people try and take credit for the work you (by "you" I mean "I") do.
Posted by Rothchild
at August 16, 2007 12:56 AM
comment #27
starfunker
says ...
wah, wah, waaaaaaaaaaaah.
Posted by starfunker
at August 16, 2007 7:42 AM
comment #28
carla kolchak
says ...
'I'll take an Edward Norton screenplay over a Zak Penn screenplay any day of the week.
- Posted by: source188'
Hrm. I thought Zak Penn's INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS was great fun.
Posted by carla kolchak
at August 16, 2007 12:52 PM
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le+mutant+hard+discount
phenomene+hard+discount
hard+discount+bricolage
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hard+gay+discount
materiau+batiment+prix+hard+discount+morbihan
supermarche+hard+discount
evolution+du+hard+discount
histoire+du+hard+discount
meuble+hard+discount
alimentation+hard+discount
ed+hard+discount
hard+discount+champagne
hard+discount+colombes
hard+discount+definition
hard+discount+historique
hard+discount+mutant
hard+discount+norma
hard+discount+paris
magasin+hard+discount+vetement
part+de+marché+hard+discount
discount+hard
grande+distribution+face+hard+discount
le+hard+discount+en+2005
hard+discount+ligne
home+stock+expansion+hard+discount
Posted by kimi98
at January 12, 2008 7:25 AM