![]() ![]() Ruffalo has openly admitted he was rather unconfident back when he joined Marvel, and assuming the same was true in this alternate timeline, there's no way he'd have been pushing his own interpretation of Bruce Banner. This naturally means Ruffalo's The Incredible Hulk would have been completely different, simply because he wouldn't have conducted the rewrite. As he explained in an interview with The Huffington Post, " The first half of the movie is really mine and the second half is the studio's expected Hulk movie - two giants kicking each other's ass." Letterier seems to have generally been on board with Norton's vision, but Marvel disagreed they were geared more towards making a commercially successful action movie. Norton pitched the Hulk as a two-part story like The Dark Knight, imagining it as what he called the modern " Promethean myth." He imagined the first part of the story as an origin, while the second would explore Bruce Banner as " the conscious dreamer, the guy who can handle the trip." An experienced scriptwriter in his own right, Norton actually reworked the script during production, although the extent of his rewrite remains controversial. The Incredible Hulk was a troubled production, in part because of contrasting visions of just what it should look like in the first place. Related: The MCU Just Confirmed Hulk's Endgame Snap Was Harder Than Thanos'īut how would the MCU have played out had Leterrier had his way over a decade ago, casting Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner? There's no way to view these alternate timelines in the real world, but it's likely the MCU would have been subtly different. It's actually not the first time Marvel did this a recent in-universe book called The Wakanda Files included an image with Ruffalo's Banner standing next to Liv Tyler's Betty Ross, but the change in the animated series is much more notable. It leads to an interesting moment in which Banner stands alongside forgotten Phase 1 character Betty Ross, the Hulk's classic love interest in the comics and from the movie. The clear implication is that everything in that film played out just the same, but Banner had a different face, voice, and mannerisms. Marvel recast Norton, of course, and Marvel's What If.? episode 3 has gone one step further by placing Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner into the story of The Incredible Hulk. ![]()
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