'Hulk' TV show planned for 2013, confirms ABC boss
Published May 15 2012, 18:04 BST | By Morgan Jeffery
A Hulk television series is still in development, ABC president Paul Lee has confirmed.An adaptation of the Marvel comic is being planned for the network's 2013 schedule, it was announced in a recent conference call.
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"The Hulk is in development," said Lee. "It wasn't going to be ready for this season, but we hope it will be ready for next season. We would like to see some Marvel projects move to television."
Lee also revealed that another Marvel project - AKA Jessica Jones - has stalled at the network.
"We did not pick it up for this season [and] we have another development which is further at the front of the queue," he said.
Other Marvel series may also be adapted for television by ABC Studios, but Lee refused to confirm specifics.
"We've got some in development, but none that I can talk about at this point," he explained. "Of course, we're immensely proud to be in a company with The Avengers and... we're going to continue to develop aggressively."
A Hulk TV project - produced by Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro and Battlestar Galactica's David Eick - was first announced in November 2010.
Mark Ruffalo recently played Bruce Banner / The Hulk in Joss Whedon's film The Avengers, which has made more than $1 billion (£623 million) worldwide.
If they do it, I want Mark Ruffalo in the lead role. That could be quite good.
July 17th 2012 at 10:28pm
BRING IT ON HULKY!!
May 16th 2012 at 12:05pm
Wow such negativity here, this could be good, the story is what counts, the CG is for one character confirmed to be the avengers model so that cuts costs on development, as long as we quickly go past the Bruce Banner/Hulk origin story and get on to some great stories it could be great..
Stargate was one series with poor special effects to begin with but the story was great, where as Terranova shows a massive budget and good for TV CG doesnt cut it always!
May 16th 2012 at 11:51am
the films were v bad this could work well as the original tv series was better than the newer films. transformers also pants films and also be better as tv show!
May 16th 2012 at 11:33am
I cn actually see this working as here is one common denominator is all of this - DISNEY and they definitely have the money to make the series.
Disney own the ABC Network and Disney own Marvel comics and characters.
May 16th 2012 at 10:54am