Louis Leterrier talks "Incredible Hulk" BD w/ 70 minutes extra footage

[GreenScar]

Originally Posted by KenThompson

Wow/ 70 minutes is alot. They would probably do the seamless branching to fit it in the extended cut. I'm going this weekend to see the movie. The last few weekends there has been nothing to get excited about.

Originally Posted by jmlalit5

I'd like to see a feature where you could select which cut scenes you want put back into the movie. Especially since he said some of the stuff was cut for a reason.

Originally Posted by DRS

So the movie will have 10-15 extra minnutes on DVD/Blu-Ray and then 7- minutes of Deleted Scenes?

Originally Posted by EricJ

Think it's more like "The alternate cut of the early-shooting scenes, before Edward Norton rewrote it"--
Not as drastic as the two "Exorcist: the Beginning"'s, but close.

For all of you: The movie in the theaters is the Directors cut. It is the version that will be on DVD and blu-ray. The 70 minutes will be among the extras. The article alludes that it will be part of the movie. this is not true. It also alludes that Captain America himself is in the movie. This is also not true.

Louis Leterrier is French. English is not his first language. He gets very excited in interviews and says things that don't interpret well, and in english mean things a little different than what he means to say. Some interviewers know this and ask for clarification and at that point he will clarify correctly when he realizes that he was misunderstood.

The 70 minutes includes EVERYTHING that was filmed. Much of it will probably be very rough. No FX. Some of it will be very good. Some of Ed Norton's scenes he didn't want cut, and some of Leterrier's scenes that he didn't want to see cut. Leterrier goes on to say in the interview:

Question: I have to do one quick follow-up. Comic-Con’s coming up in July, obviously you might go down there for “Hulk”, do you think…

Louis Leterrier: I don’t know.

Question: …well, maybe. Do you think there’s any chance of you showing some of those deleted scenes you talked about the 70 minutes at Comic-Con for the fans?

Louis Leterrier: Guys, do not do this--and action.

Question: No, but I’m being serious. That might a really nice treat for the fans.

Louis Leterrier: That would be nice, yeah. We’ll see. It’s just I tell you; it’s not that interesting. I mean, it’s interesting….only the good stuff is in the movie. We just took out the bad stuff that’s why. We didn’t take out any of the good stuff otherwise it would be a shame. No, really I swear.

The interviewer has no clue that these are just extras. I'm sure in the next couple of days someone will ask him to clarify and he will.

spoiler tags added just in case. what's discussed next is NOT in the movie:

A lot of the scenes that are cut are

[Show spoiler]the flashbacks (everything that is in the opening montage was actually filmed). The arctic scene that was going to open the film (he is in the arctic and he goes to the middle of nowhere to kill himself. When he finally puts the gun to his head, that arm turns into the Hulk and prevents him from doing it. he then transforms and falls into the ocean. supposedly, this is where we get a quick glimpse of Captain America frozen). and almost everything with Leonard Sampson (he's Betty's new flame until Bruce comes back into the picture. he also tries to psycho analyze Bruce and a few other tidbits that MAY be in the movie so I won't spoil).

One last quote from Leterrier about the 70 minutes:

You know when you do your first movie, you do an assembly. Everything that you’ve shot you put it into an assembly. Then after the assembly, you screen it. And it’s called a suicide run because it’s absolutely horrible. You want to commit suicide after you see it. You’re like, “oh I wasted 2 years of my life, $150 million. This is the worst movie ever.

That's the version with 70 extra minutes. It's a cool EXTRA, because no one's ever done it before. Show the public EVERYTHING. Most of it will probably be pretty lame, but there should be some gems in there.

[GreenScar]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

Fantastic! I am sure Jasonbird will also be happy.

You know me too well!

[Entertainment72]

This movie looks so fake and cheesy.. I predict a bomb..

[PS3-Playb3yond]

Originally Posted by Entertainment72

This movie looks so fake and cheesy.. I predict a bomb..

I predict a sequel.....

[Marine Mike]

Originally Posted by Entertainment72

This movie looks so fake and cheesy.. I predict a bomb..

I assume you are talking about the extra 70 minutes of footage as thats the topic of this thread.


How do you know? You haven't even seen the extra 70 minutes of footage to know if it'll bomb. Also, you haven't seen the theatrical release to make a somewhat intelligent argument supporting your opinion.

[aramis109]

Originally Posted by Entertainment72

This movie looks so fake and cheesy.. I predict a bomb..

After reading this and the Patton thread, I wonder if you're just trying to rile up members? A lot of folks are pretty excited about this. Why rain on their parade if you've not seen it?

I'm interested in seeing it with my family. It looks like fun.