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Saturday 20 December 2008

2nd Poll results: Should The Incredible Hulk be the villain of The Avengers movie of 2011 ?


Second poll with only a total of 6 votes :

Yes 17% 1 vote

No 83% 5 votes

Again, I think I was testing the waters here with such an outlandish question at such an early point in time to even predict a screenplay. But as some movies go a simple idea is usually used to interpret ate a script for a grand scale blockbuster to attract the masses and not just the comic book character loving folk ! Here I was thinking back to the early day Avengers comic book of the 1960's when the Hulk was an avenger even for a short period of time of two issues in 1963, three if you include the 1999 "The Avengers 1 1/2" (pictured also here) but actually stayed with the book until issue 5. A plot was involved in issue 3 where The Avengers try to locate the Hulk as he could be a menace to society. They fail to catch him, and Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner allies himself with the Hulk in a bid to rule over humanity. Phew !!

The line up for the first issue of the Avengers was Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Ant-Man and the Wasp and this looks like the line-up for The Avengers movie of 2011 with the addition of Captain America which like The Avengers comic book of 1964, Captain America made his reappearance in issue 3 after an absence of near ten years since Captain America Comics issue 78, 1954. Because of the end of World War II, Captain America was fighting the Communists and the Soviet Union as oppose to the Nazis and this was dismissed in his reappearance because his body had been frozen and preserved after a failed mission near the end of World War II and found by The Avengers where the body had been thawed by warmer waters. Now, could the screenplay follow along the lines of some of the history I have mentioned above, keeping it simple and using the Avengers trying to restrain the control of the Incredible Hulk ?? I guess we will just have to wait and see !!



1 comment:

Limanim said...

To be fair to some of the bad superhero movies out there. They need to spend time establishing the origin of the hero, and then the origin of the villian. Suppose using the Hulk as a ready made villain makes sense... would still prefare to see the Avengers take on an Alien invasion or killer robots