The Avengers': Joss Whedon promises 'fresh' take on Hulk
Joss Whedon has promised a "fresh" take on the Hulk for the Avengers movie.
The director has explained how he and actor Mark Ruffalo, who will play Bruce Banner and his big green alter ego, based their inspiration on the Bill Bixby television show.
"He and I did the most character work of anyone, because we really were starting fresh, but we were starting with something that had been embodied several times," Whedon told Movie Talk.
"And both of us agreed upfront that the template for who we wanted this guy to be in his life was Bill Bixby, the TV [show character] who was busy helping other people. That was more interesting to us than the Banner in the first two movies who was always fixated on curing himself.
"We spent a lot of time talking about what makes us Hulk out, the nature of anger, how it feels.
"We even fought some. I mean literally we actually got some pads out and did some tussling. Just to talk about the physicality, and also the physicality of somebody who has to control this thing, and the way he moves in space and the way he relates to the people and the objects around him.
"It was extremely fun. What we found was that he could be very bumbling and kind of awkward, but at the same time very graceful and in this almost transcendent control of himself."
The makers of the upcoming Incredible Hulk television show are planning to use CGI from the Avengers film.
Bixby's television show ran from 1977 to 1982.
The Avengers is scheduled for release in cinemas on May 4, 2012.
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