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With hours to go before the release of The Incredible Hulk...

Garth Franklin of Dark Horizons posted 2 interesting Hulk stories recently:

Talking with G4's Attack of the Show..director Louis Leterrier hints that "Captain America" himself makes an appearance in the sequel (best guess - probably in a photo in the background somewhere).

Ever since the brief appearance of Captain America's shield in "Iron Man", the talk of crossover elements between the upcoming films has been building.

As already reported, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) makes a cameo in the film.

In the same interview, Letterrier says that "I'd love to do it" in regards to a sequel and that this first film definitely lays the groundwork for further films, but it will depend on the film's box-office success.

He cites the previously publicised disagreement between him and Norton as to being over the film's first three-hour cut, NOT the film's final cut as earlier reported. The removal of Edward Norton's screenwriting credit is also said to be due to WGA arbitration....the DVD will have some deleted scenes, there will not be an extended cut of the film....

A few days later:

Of course the final film is much shorter than that, a breezy 106 minutes, which has resulted in some mixed early reviews and complaints of it being truncated. Letterier has also previously stated that he does not intended to do an alternate or 'extended' cut of the film either.

Now in an interview with Collider, he reveals that he intends for the eventual Blu-ray and DVD release film to contain all that cut footage - a total of 70 minutes of footage not included in the final theatrical cut including two scenes shown in the trailers that definitely didn't make the final version of the film.

One of those scenes includes the Captain America cameo says Judao. Whilst the serum is mentioned frequently throughout the film, the crew shot a whole quite dark sequence where Bruce Banner travels to the Arctic Circle and meets up with Captain America.


I'm still feeling rather "meh" about this film But I am a bit curious about how the 70 DVD minutes thing will play out...I find it fascinating that for all of the media's attention to the fact that Norton wrote the script and then he loses in writer's arbitration...Ah that's Hollywood...