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I’m aware of the new photos that were released in Empire, but this story is more to talk about.

Since I don’t have the fiannances to be at the New York Comic-Con, which bugs the hell out me, but I guarantee possibly next year, a description has come out from The Hulk panel of new footage that was shown.

They showed a series of clips starting with one of Roth as Emil Blonsky talking
to William Hurt’s General Thunderbolt Ross. Ross tells Blonsky about a weapons
program initiated during World War II to create a “super soldier” (a far from
subtle reference to the serum responsible for creating Captain America), but
Blonsky is eager to do whatever it takes to become better and more powerful,
after facing the Hulk and being defeated. Ross says he can arrange Blonsky to
become a test subject for the serum, and we cut to a scene of a doctor warning
Blonsky that it requires two very painful injections, one into the bloodstream
and one into the bone marrow. Ross says that if there are any signs of side
effects they’d have to immediately stop the experiment—we all know that’s not
what will happen though, right?—and we then see Blonsky strapped to a hospital
table facing the floor with his back exposed and the doctor starts injecting one
of the shots into his back as he grimaces in pain.

Excellent Captain America reference, which was also mentioned in the first Spider-Man, with Oscorp developing the Human Performance Inhancers.

It seems nobody in the Marvel Universe can nail the Super Soldier serum, even when Cap was around or even in The Ultimates they couldn’t process his DNA. The injections are a much painful process then getting your brain exposed to Gamma Radiation.

The second clip shown, which probably takes place before Blonsky’s
conversation with Ross, was an extended scene in which Edward Norton’s Bruce
Banner first faces Emil Blonsky after a tussle with General Ross’ army. The
scene starts with Banner being chased into a glass overpass and trapped in there
with military personnel on both sides, and General Ross ordering his men to
launch gas grenades into the overpass, which they do. We get a brief glimpse of
Liv Tyler’s Betty Ross who looks pretty upset about how her father is treating
her boyfriend and she starts running towards the overpass with two soldiers
chasing after her. She elbows one of them in the head knocking him down but then
the other soldier tackles her to the ground. They start emitting gas and Banner
starts tensing up and he rips off his outer shirt to put over his mouth, but
obviously, he’s not in a good place. We then see the outside of the now
gas-filled overpass and a hand come up and hit the glass sides, which cracks
from the impact. We then see some of Banner’s transformation into the Hulk, particularly his feet expanding and breaking
open the sneakers. We then see the soldiers on the ground watching the overpass
as the Hulk smashes out of it, leaps to the ground and snarls at Ross and the
soldiers, who start firing their guns. This is a much bigger and more muscular
Hulk than the first movie, and even though the visual FX weren’t completely
done, you can tell that this is a far more detailed monster that’s taking full
advantage of the motion capture and facial capture techniques being used by
Letterier on the film.

Betty kicking ass, sweet, she’s the daughter of a general for crying out loud. Like Lois Lane, she had to pick some moves in her life. Like in the 90’s cartoon, Betty is held captive as she’s forced to watch her father try an kill the man she loves.

Hope the transformation is good, cause the CGI is starting to lenger in my mind. Something I noticed, Hulk’s teeth are green? Odd.

Ross commands two fast-moving jeeps armed with machine guns to go after the
beast, and they do so as the Hulk runs after one of them, side checks it and
then picks it up and uses the jeep to knock out a wall of soldiers with guns.
Ross orders Blonsky to do his thing, and Blonsky starts walking confidently
towards the rampaging monster firing a large gun at him, as the Hulk takes two
large pieces of scrap metal from the jeeps and uses them to stop the bullets.
Blonsky then does an impressive leap over the Hulk and shows off some impressive
acrobatic maneuvers as the Hulk starts swinging the giant metal slabs at the
soldier. Blonsky yells out, “Is that it? Is that all you got?” as the Hulk lifts
his enormous leg and kicks Blonsky full in the chest. (The clip ended there, but
as we’d see in the trailer later, the result of that blow is that Blonsky is
sent hurtling backwards, this humiliating defeat leading to him agreeing to be
given the serum that eventually turns him into the Abomination.)

Any blow from The Hulk or even Superman, you could get injured or possibly get killed.

Letterier said how much he hates those cheesy cameos by comic book creators in
recent Marvel movies, so he decided to give Ferrigno a real role in the movie
that he thought would be funnier. He then asked Ferrigno, who never spoke as the
Hulk on the original live action show but provided the voice for the Hulk in the
1996 cartoon, to give the audience a sample of his “Hulk Smash!” which prompted
Letterier to offer Ferrigno a job doing just that for the movie. This seemed far
too staged to be an impromptu job offer, but indeed, it seems like whatever the
Hulk might say in the movie, that voice will indeed be provided by Lou Ferrigno.

That would be a bonus if Ferringno did the voice, cause he brought heart, anger, and rage to the character in the animated series. If not fine, but I want Hulk to say more then just “Puny Human”.

After taking questions from the audience, they showed the new unfinished trailer
that will debut with Iron
Man (Paramount/Marvel Studios) on May 2nd which incorporates a lot of the
footage we had just seen of the Hulk taking on the army, as well as a great
scene of the Hulk ripping a car in half. The biggest surprise was a scene
afterwards that shows General Ross sitting in a seedy bar when a silhouette
appears at the door and it’s none other than Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark. The two of them basically
have a verbal exchange with Ross complimenting Stark on his suit and Stark
telling Ross that he can help him with his “problem.” It’s unclear whether this
scene will be shown as part of the official trailer and whether this scene will
be something saved for after the movie’s end credits, but it certainly is the
first step towards the set-up for the very much anticipated “Avengers” movie
that everyone has been hinting at for years.

This cameo will probably not be in the movie. But the fanboy in me wants it there, cause as mention earlier in the post, Marvel has the advantge to build the world in their upcoming projects more so then DC, which is clutterfucking itself.

Can’t wait for the new trailer when Iron Man comes out. The Big Movies start next month.