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Its Time For The Incredible Hulk To Return To TV


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If they were going to do the premise and character correctly, then It just isn't possible to do a Hulk television series without a budget that would be so large that it would be impossible for it to make a profit. It would need a budget of at least $10-$15 million per episode.

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CG is getting cheaper or better on TV look at Grodd and King Shark on Flash. They could do it on something like Netflix where the limitations would be completely wide open. Hulk wouldn't be in it all the time, be like the old series where you only saw the Hulk a few mins in the middle and a few mins near the end.

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I think it would be a disappointment if they couldn't use the Hulk very much, but the Hulk is the real attraction, which is why it isn't called The Incredible Banner.

Even in the comics, the reader is really just counting down the time until Banner transforms and the real fun begins. Remember that the biggest criticism of Ang Lee's Hulk was that the Hulk doesn't even appear until nearly an hour into the movie.

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Can't really please everybody. The reason Stan Lee added the Jekyll & Hyde element because it would become boring just doing a green monster running around all the time, can only use in like big action scenes. Even superheroes in costume get reduce to cameo like appearances in live action. Build up to Hulk outs shouldn't be as long as a hour useless there are other things to keep people going like The Avengers, in a TV series would up to 20 mins and then 10 or 15 mins to another and would have to be other things to keeps the whole show going.

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Problem is the more you give audiences what they want the more likely it is they'll become overly familiar with it all and is just no longer interested.

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All likelihood be more Banner concentric and only see The Hulk for a few mins towards the end of an episode.

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I think more like a continuation: A made for TV movie that they wanted to do before the rug got pulled out from under them. The hulk gets acquitted after Jack McGee confesses to starting the fire that killed Elaina Marks, then David Banner comes out of hiding and gets his job back at the Culver Institute.

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Unlikely, 26 years since Death of the Incredible Hulk, be like Superman Returns many years to where people are with the character, too much clinging to the past.

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When Guillermo Del Toro was trying to get a new Hulk show off the ground a few years back, I was really curious to see what could be done but it seems that the idea was dropped.

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It was gonna be a thing with Bruce Banner and Betty Ross, may have reused Ruffalo Hulk, it was gonna be before anyone knew Banner was the Hulk and before he became a hunted fugitive.

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Unlike the 70's show would likely be a serialized format, would be like Flash, Supergirl or Daredevil type show. Banner's childhood, multiple personality disorder and relationships etc would work for a serialized format, TV would have more scope than a movie.

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Would be monster of the week type show.

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Wouldn't just be an anthology type show with just two or three regular cast members or the same episode over and over, would have more supporting characters and would be more of a continuing story arc.

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