{"id":9057,"date":"2010-07-12T22:46:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T03:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=9057"},"modified":"2018-11-20T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T04:03:09","slug":"norton-weighs-in-on-avengers-casting-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/12\/norton-weighs-in-on-avengers-casting-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Norton Weighs In On AVENGERS Casting Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8992\" title=\"NortonHulk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NortonHulk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/>We&#8217;ve heard the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/10\/norton-is-out-of-avengers\/\" target=\"_blank\">original story<\/a> that Marvel Studios wasn&#8217;t going to be bringing back Edward Norton to reprise his Incredible Hulk role of Dr. Bruce Banner. Then Marvel Studios released an official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/10\/update-marvel-confirms-norton-out-of-avengers-offers-reason\/\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> as to why they were going to recast the role. Norton&#8217;s agent wasn&#8217;t to thrilled with what Marvel had to say, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/11\/update-update-nortons-camp-responds\/\" target=\"_blank\">decided to tell<\/a> the world about it.<\/p>\n<p>But up until now, the one person who has been strangely silent on the whole controversy is Norton himself. That is, like I said, up until now.<\/p>\n<p>Norton took to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/officialedwardnorton\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> and released this statement &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NortonAvengersStatement1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9062\" title=\"NortonAvengersStatement\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NortonAvengersStatement1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NortonAvengersStatement1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NortonAvengersStatement1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NortonAvengersStatement1-550x393.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a>And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you take the high road.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, responding with a blistering attack could only be seen as reinforcing Feige&#8217;s assertion that Norton is not &#8220;an actor who embodies the creativity and collaborative spirit of our other talented cast members.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Either way, I&#8217;m hoping that we have now put the whole story behind us except for seeing who Marvel ultimately casts in the vacated role. Will it be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/12\/joaquim-phoenix-replacing-norton-in-avengers\/\" target=\"_blank\">rumored<\/a> Joaquim Phoenix? With the San Diego Comic Con coming up next week, I don&#8217;t think we have to wait too long to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">We&#8217;ve heard the original story that Marvel Studios wasn&#8217;t going to be bringing back Edward Norton to reprise his Incredible Hulk role of Dr. Bruce Banner. Then Marvel Studios released an official statement as to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/12\/norton-weighs-in-on-avengers-casting-controversy\/\" title=\"Norton Weighs In On AVENGERS Casting Controversy\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[31,465,460,1972,684],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-comics-and-film","9":"tag-edward-norton","10":"tag-incredible-hulk","11":"tag-kevin-feige","12":"tag-the-avengers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9057"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=9057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}