
Artist: Cantoma
Genre(s):
Dance
Discography:

Cantoma
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
 
Behind the Big Voice: David Archuleta
The Incredible Hulk
Dir: Louis Leterrier
Stars: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt
*** 1 / 2
The first and best sign that director Louis Leterrier understands the job in front of him in the second movie take on Marvel Comics' Hulk is the winking cameo he gives Lou Ferrigno � the big green monster in the �70s TV series � and the late Bill Bixby, glimpsed in a rerun of The Courtship Of Eddie�s Father.
For the audience buying tickets for the film this weekend, Ed Norton will be playing Bruce Banner, the character made famous for them by Bixby back in the �70s -- not by poor Eric Bana from the ill-starred Ang Lee film of 2003 to which this is, ostensibly, a sequel. Like an embarrassing relative or your high school haircut, Lee�s film is something no one wants to discuss, but its shadow hangs over Leterrier�s film.
To his credit, Leterrier has no interest in departing from the comic book film form. The film sets up the scenario quickly � Banner in exile in a favela in Brazil, searching for a cure for his �condition� � and rewards us with a big action set piece and the first appearance of Banner�s hulking alter ego within the first half hour. We get the love interest (Liv Tyler), the bad guys (William Hurt and Tim Roth) and the stock conspiracy theory plot mechanism with a secret military program; everything in its place and a place for everything.
What Ang Lee overlooked � or ignored � was that the comic book film is rarely interested in innovation, especially innovation that deprives it of brute thrills in favour of a more nuanced exploration of character. Like it or not, the successful comic franchise film audience craves the familiar - how else do you explain the roar that issued from the preview crowd during the film�s coda, featuring a cameo by Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, and borrowing the good karma of a much more successful summer comic franchise to give its audience the �happy ending� they craved?
Bruce Willis is in negotiations to star in game adaptation Kane & Lynch: Dead Men for Lionsgate films, reports claim.
If the Die Hard actor gives the deal his blessing, he will take the role of Kane, according to Variety.
The game tells of a Death Row escapee who is sprung from prison along with schizophrenic killer Lynch.
Hudson Hawk star Willis was first linked with the project in 2007, with Billy Bob Thornton predicted to take the part of Lynch. No mention of the latter has been made in the new announcement, with a co-star still being sought.
Directorial duties will be handed to Simon Crane, making his feature directorial debut, having served as assistant director on Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, X-Men 3 and Terminator 3.
Kyle Ward will be getting a script together, described by the Los Angeles Times as the "hottest" new writer in Hollywood in 2007.
IO Interactive, developers of Kane & Lynch, has had another of its games turned into a movie in recent years, with its Hitman series adapted last November, starring Deadwood's Timothy Olyphant.
Filming on the Kane & Lynch project should start before the end of 2008.
04/06/2008 13:32:16