THE INCREDIBLE HULK Writer Reveals Some Weird Changes Edward Norton Made To The Movie

The Incredible Hulk writer Zak Penn recently talked about the 2008 film and some of the bizarre changes that actor Edward Norton made to the script. These changes didn’t really make much sense to Penn, and as you’ll see, there were actually pretty petty changes. It’s suggested that these changes were made so that Norton would get a WGA credit on the project.

Penn shared the following information in the “MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios” book, and this is what he said about the changes made to the movie:

"I had him walking east down the street wearing a blue hat and now he’s walking west down the street wearing a red hat. And I had named his downstairs neighbor Lorina, and he changed it to Malina or something.”

Penn then went on to talk about the big change that Norton made to the end of the movie that he obviously didn’t like, saying:

"There was some stuff at the end that he really changed. I had a scene where, when Ross picked Banner up from the hospital earlier in the movie, he throws him out of the helicopter. It was a pretty shocking moment. They moved that to a moment when he chooses to jump into Harlem.

"So that’s a big difference: I felt like [the original version] would have been a really cool scene and I didn’t totally understand why he would jump out into Harlem, given that he could theoretically kill a lot of people."

Yeah, that doesn’t make any sense at all. Those are definitely some interesting and pointless changes that Norton made, but he got his credit. Many of the changes that he made were scrapped in the post-production process, such as The Hulk not showing up until 40 minutes into the movie. This is the reason why Norton refused to promote the movie.

Marvel Studios was unhappy with how the actor conducted himself and the publicly fired Norton, who was later replaced with Mark Ruffalo.

The Incredible Hulk ultimately ended up being a decent movie, but it only grossed $264 million globally.

Via: CBM