VFX Supervisor Explains How 'Grey Hulk' Was Almost Introduced In AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
It was previously revealed that the Incredible Hulk was initially a few shades darker while under the Scarlet Witch's control in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but now more details about what could have been.
"What Joss wanted to do was he said, “I wanted to have a Hulk that’s this berserker Hulk,” said Townsend. "Berserker Hulk was this Hulk that Hulks out, was what we had come up with on set. And then we sort of started talking about, 'Well what are those extremes?' And ILM started playing with a deformed body with a deformed face with one eye larger than another. You know, like crooked teeth, and drooling, and red eyes, and all this kind of stuff. Then we started playing with color and we started to de-saturate him and give him sort of red around his eyes and made him look strung-out heroin addict Hulk was the idea. Sort of like where he has totally lost it and he’s gone totally crazy. And then we gradually tended towards a grayer and grayer version till effectively we got grey Hulk."
Townsend then explained why this gray Hulk was ultimately excluded from Avengers: Age of Ultorn. "We tried a few shots in the film with that sort of much grayer version," he said. "And then we’re thinking, 'Will people confuse this with the gray Hulk from the comics? And is that a good thing or a bad thing?' Eventually, I think we backed off a little bit of that and made him greener so that…we didn’t want to confuse people in creating a new character, per se, in that way. So we ultimately backed off. But we had gone pretty extreme in the looks for him." What do you think?
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