For a little while now, we’ve been hearing about the dispute Marvel got into with Edward Norton about the final cut of THE INCREDIBLE HULK. Norton was particulary sensitive on the issue considering he not only stars as the not so jolly green giant but he’s producer and wrote huge chunks of the script. An article in Entertainment Weekly recently surfaced, however, explaining that the whole thing was just blown out of proportion by our gossip hungry internet minds. Both director Louis Leterrier offered their opinions with Norton himself issuing a statement, part of which reads:
Every good movie gets forged through collaboration, and different ideas among people who are all committed and respect the validity of each other’s opinions is the heart of filmmaking. Regrettably, our healthy process, which is and should be a private matter, was misrepresented publicly as a ‘dispute,’ seized on by people looking for a good story, and has been distorted to such a degree that it risks distracting from the film itself, which Marvel, Universal and I refuse to let happen.
Read the rest of what Leterrier and Norton had to say over HERE. Hulk squares off against Abomination on June 27th.