Jon Favreau Shares His Thoughts On Marvel Recasting The Hulk!

I'm giving Ruffalo a chance.

ok i'll give ruffalo a chance

Ruffalo is a bad choice in my opinion... but the people will watch Avengers movie, don't worry f$%&$ marvel ;D

Awesome find Josh.

Favreau is real cool kat. I'll just have to give Ruffalo a chance too...Even if I don't like it.

team Ruffalo....Norton is a pain in the ass. the reason why Norton is not in the new Hulk offshoots is norton

I liked Norton's banner, and hate recasts, but if this had to happen I think Ruffalo is a great replacement.

I agree Ruffalo is a good actor, but do not judge by shutter island. That movie sux bad. It's not his acting it's just bad.

I'm giving Ruffalo a chance. He's a great actor.

whats Norton's thoughts on this?

Finally people are moving on and saying that they will give Ruffalo a chance.

(sigh) i'm still depressed about norton not coming back. maybe in my dreams though......

they should've just written banner out of the movie and had hulk the whole time until they could get things squared away with norton and bring him back for avengers in the future. there have been many hulk comics without banner in them. i am happy they are going to have the character of burce banner tho. but mark ruffalo doesn't strike me as the geeky science type. but he's a good actor so im sure he's capable of pulling it off.

what can i say tho? i want this movie to be so good and i believe it will. it just won't feel the same not seeing norton up there. oh well maybe my mind will change once cap and thor come out. might not care about banner so much then.

Here we go again. Give Mark Ruffalo a break. He's a really good actor. You can't blame the man for taking the role. Things didn't work out between Norton and Marvel. The role had to be cast. Bana wasn't chosen so I think that they made an excellent choice. So just be thankful that the film is getting made. Stop whinning and complaining. I remember this same vitriol directed at Micheal Keaton when he was chosen to do Batman...now you can't beat MF's saying how much they miss Keaton's version.

who the fawk is Mark Ruffalo?? well i'm as excited at looking forward to The Avengers the same way i am looking forward to seeing grass grow. thank God for bootlegs.

Nice interview Josh! :)

@ MarsAmbassador - Sir, I can see you're upset, and very passionate about the continuity of the last two Hulk films and the future of the Hulk line of films.

I'd like to point out that although Norton's movie was mostly a reboot, it wasn't a new origin story. They let Universal's take on Hulk stand as the origin, then followed up with Marvel's first take on the character with Hulk already running from General Ross.

There is as least some continuation of the story there, even if the continuity was a bit skewed. Marvel had just recently received the rights back, after all. But now, moving forward without the very talented Ed Norton, I have no doubt that the #1 goal for Marvel is to continue with the franchise that Ed Norton started, including more Hulk solo films after The Avengers.

Right now, we only have Iron Man and Hulk as our continuity base. That will all change next summer. Once Thor and Captain America come out, we will have a much fuller understanding of Marvel's cinematic universe, and by the time The Avengers hits theaters, the actor playing Bruce Banner will mean much less in the overall film than it might seem to us right now.

Plus, with Norton gone, Marvel believes they have a better chance of expanding the Hulk franchise, and doing so with less hassle and heartache, despite Norton's inspired performance for that single movie.

Rest your screaming green avatar, old chum. Things are always greenest before the dawn (of awesomeness!)

I don;t give a sh*t who the actor is, just get it right dammit

Mars@"It has as much to do with the Avengers now as the Bana Hulk movie does." - thats what bothers me so much. it's like the avengers is only building off of Iron Man right now. (EDIT: but Skylar was right. even tho it was a reboot it was sort of a pseudo-sequel.)

and yeah you get people going "oh here we go. people are hating on ruffalo. god they always hate" but it's like why can't that be seen as support for Norton? i dgaf if he's an asshole. he probably signed a multi-picture deal originally that he would've been happy with. but they probably tried to change it up for the avengers. to each their own - no bad guys, no good guys, just business. im just a little sad about it is all.... Norton was the perfect Banner. i still saw Norton when i watched him but that's not a problem if Norton looks like Banner.