I've been saying that a modern Hulk TV series would be awesome... but if it's just a body builder in green paint it'll get laughed off the TV...
There's also the problem of action, people expect SMASH these days, TV Hulk was always a bit wimpy, just lifting things mainly and always fighting normal people.
I doubt it will be any good. I never liked the original TV series myself, and they can't make a Hulk in the theatre with mass appeal. Personally I liked the Ang Lee Hulk better than Norton's take on David Banner. That rift exists in the fan base here as well.
I think if they made it a Saturday Morning show for the kids, then they could get away with is being a scrawny Bruce that turns into a roided out green painted guy....
Yeah, I'm really not sure we need a Hulk TV show remake, especially when we've got the Marvel movies and the Avengers cartoon.
Now if they were to make a new Flash TV show... that could be awesome! (Barry's a superhero CSI! It can't fail!) 
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I can't listen to that without crazy nostalgia and flashbacks to my childhood.
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Sid and Marty Kroft shows FTW!!
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Originally Posted by PowerStream
I think if they made it a Saturday Morning show for the kids, then they could get away with is being a scrawny Bruce that turns into a roided out green painted guy....
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Originally Posted by BlackArachnia
Sid and Marty Kroft shows FTW!!
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II was saying in the WW thread its about time they brought The Incredible Hulk and some of the other properties back to TV, especially the ones that are being flogged to death and / or rebooted constantly theatrically.
Marvel revives the art of the superhero tv show cliffhanger, puts enough money into these projects to make them essentially extensions of their cinema ncarnations and i don't see why this wouldn't be a winner. This new ultimate highschool Spidey should be a big budget 1 hour TV show with cliffhangers showcasing all of Spidey's gallery of foes - that would be far better than rebooting the character at the cinema all the time.
(edit becuase I quoted the wrong post)
I just lost at least 10 points of IQ reading the comments on that article.
I must not have had many to begin with, since I was dumb enough to start reading the comments in the first place.
Some of them were right about one thing though: Jeph Loeb = fail.
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Hulk is too big for live action TV if they want to do it right. However if you want to do a "The Fugitive" style show where he hulks out once every few weeks then maybe, otherwise you have to go the "large man in green makeup" route because the effects would cost too much for a live action TV series.
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
because the effects would cost too much for a live action TV series.
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Besides, all that CGI work, all those models and animation code still exists for them to make use of in a TV series.
Mark Ruffalo?
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Yeah, but it would still cost an absolute fortune to film and render all of that.
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Originally Posted by Mothers_Love
Really?, ... Marvels been accused of being short on lots of things - patience, fairness, foresight, but moneys certainly not one of them.
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Pfft, all they need is a dude in a green shirt, purple pants, and a pair of these.
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Hulk is too big for live action TV if they want to do it right. However if you want to do a "The Fugitive" style show where he hulks out once every few weeks then maybe, otherwise you have to go the "large man in green makeup" route because the effects would cost too much for a live action TV series.
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Yes but TV is still a very cost sensitive business, even with major networks. It doesn't take much in terms of ratings to cancel a show with a large budget.|
Originally Posted by Mothers_Love
Really?, ... Marvels been accused of being short on lots of things - patience, fairness, foresight, but moneys certainly not one of them.
Besides, all that CGI work, all those models and animation code still exists for them to make use of in a TV series. Mark Ruffalo? |
The thing is when you think about the Hulk there are two trains of thought. One is a revamp version of the 70s TV Hulk. He gets mad, bust through walls, stops cars, toss a few thugs of the week, save the girl/farm/child of the week. Then there's the comic book Hulk. The one that can fall from orbit and simply dust himself off. The one that can rip apart tanks. The one that can jump miles.
The comic one has the same problem as Superman does for TV. Simply too powerful to provide a creditable challenge on a weekly basis. They get away with it in Smallville because Clark is A) still learning his powers and B) has more self doubt and angst than all of LiveJournal and C) 99% of the villains are just as much a shadow of their comic book self as Clark. Then on top of it they pulled the "meteor freak" card every week for years.
So basically comic version is too powerful to go after thugs of the week and a weekly list of gamma superbaddies would seem as lame as meteor freaks. Depower him so he can go against more average bad guys and we end up with a wrestler painted green and not anything that resembles the Hulk from the comics.
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They can always go the Kevin Sorbo Hercules route: No need to have a body builder -- just assume magical great strength. This way, you only need someone just basically fit and can't act.
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Wow, this things really moving along nicely. The progress towards The Incredilble Hulk TV show;
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Marvel is swinging for the fences with its first live-action television project since being acquired by Disney, putting forth a new TV incarnation of the incredible Hulk devised by two fairly exciting names: Gullermo del Toro, the director of the Hellboy movies, Pan's Labyrinth, and Blade II; and David Eick, an executive producer of Battlestar Galactica and creator of the spinoff, Battlestar Galactcia: Blood & Chrome. The pair will co-create the new Hulk series and co-write its pilot episode, which del Toro may direct if he's available. The show is expected to debut on Disney-owned ABC sometime in 2012, after the release of Marvel's The Avengers movie, which also features the Hulk. The Hulk TV news comes courtesy of Deadline, who also report that Hulk alter-ego will be younger than in recent versions -- more like mid-twenties -- and "less reactive and more energized, as the world is still his oyster." It's too early to talk casting, but the star of this Hulk TV show will be the fourth actor in eight years to portray the Green Goliath. As for the depiction of the Hulk himself, Deadline wrote that the creature will be somewhat reimagined by del Toro, who is of course a monster fetishist of the highest order, having recently overseen designs for Peter Jackson's forthcoming The Hobbit films based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien. Unlike the character's appearances in the most recent Hulk films, where he was 100% CGI, del Toro's beast will be a mixture of prosthetics, puppetry and computer tricks. |
Gullermo del Toro's involved?
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So we should expect to see Hulk in a similar fashion as Hellboy? Which would probably be okay. Or it could be as long as they target a little younger audience and not 30 something fanboys looking for their childhood!
They should've went with a Luke Cage tv show. Super Strength, Invulnerable (But not at Superman levels so he's not impossible to hurt) and he's easy on the budget since he doesn't need to transform.
He's also well known enough that comic readers would know who he is and watch but unknown enough that you can be flexible with his stories. There's also lots of room for cameos from other Marvel characters from the A-listers to D-listers.
I'd love to see the Grey Hulk (Mr Fixxit) get a TV show. Peter David did some great work on the Hulk but the Grey Hulk is my favorite.
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Originally Posted by Talia_Rayvyn
They should've went with a Luke Cage tv show. Super Strength, Invulnerable (But not at Superman levels so he's not impossible to hurt) and he's easy on the budget since he doesn't need to transform.
He's also well known enough that comic readers would know who he is and watch but unknown enough that you can be flexible with his stories. There's also lots of room for cameos from other Marvel characters from the A-listers to D-listers. |
so im down with seeing a 'Hellboy' style Hulk running around, though id be more interested in seeing them redo a live action Flash TV show.
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Originally Posted by Veritech
id rather they make a TV show about a character id want to see.
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EDIT: Brain farted Smallville, but I can't see Luke Cage on the WB sticking around long at all.
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Throw in Danny and make it a Heroes For Hire show and I'd watch it.
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Originally Posted by Talia_Rayvyn
They should've went with a Luke Cage tv show. Super Strength, Invulnerable (But not at Superman levels so he's not impossible to hurt) and he's easy on the budget since he doesn't need to transform.
He's also well known enough that comic readers would know who he is and watch but unknown enough that you can be flexible with his stories. There's also lots of room for cameos from other Marvel characters from the A-listers to D-listers. |
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Just saw this, didn't see anything else and the search never works for me.
http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/abc-...e-hulk-series/
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