Avi Arad spoke with Empire Magazine yesterday to clear up a rumor that apparently got out of hand over the weekend. At a roundtable in LA, Avi caused a bit of a stir when he responded to a reporter who won’t leave him alone about the idea of the Hulk being Grey in the new Incredible Hulk film.
“It was a joke!” laughs Arad. “Here’s what it was. There were 30 people around a table, and they said ‘is there going to be a grey Hulk?’ And I was thinking about it and I said, ‘who knows?’ It was one of those moments. I had just got back from Japan and I was trying to talk about Spider-Man and this guy was pushing me on The Hulk so I thought I’ll be coy. I don’t know what colour it is, and all of a sudden it’s headline news.”
He continued to elaborate on what we can expect from The Hulk in this next film, and also confirmed the villain for the film.
“It’s a different shade of green,” confirms Arad. “But the colour is not like the old Hulk. And no, there’s no grey Hulk.” He went on to confirm that The Abomination will be villain in the film, and that they feel they have a much better story and take on the character this time around. In describing how the Hulk would act in the film, Arad said, “He’ll be instinctive, like a primal creature. That’s what’s interesting. There’s no smarts. My dog is the gentlest animal out there, but he hates the plumber. He won’t fight with anybody, hates the plumber!”
Arad finished up by praising Edward Norton, saying that the he couldn’t imagine anyone else in the role of Bruce Banner…and even revealing that Norton turned down the role of Banner in the first Hulk film.
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