{"id":9097,"date":"2010-07-14T19:48:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T00:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=9097"},"modified":"2018-11-20T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T04:03:08","slug":"is-mark-ruffalo-the-new-hulk-in-the-avengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/14\/is-mark-ruffalo-the-new-hulk-in-the-avengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Mark Ruffalo The New Hulk In THE AVENGERS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mark-ruffalo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9098\" title=\"mark-ruffalo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mark-ruffalo-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Well, if this was true, Edward Norton wasn&#8217;t all that hard to replace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2010\/07\/mark-ruffalo-in-late-stage-talks-to-be-marvels-new-hulk-in-the-avengers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dateline:Hollywood <\/a>is reporting that actor Mark Ruffalo is in &#8220;late-stage talks&#8221; with Marvel Studios to take over the role of Bruce Banner, a.k.a. the Hulk in <strong>The Avengers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While Ruffalo might be a great one, I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d call him a &#8220;name actor.&#8221; He is probably most known for playing the lead opposite Reese Witherspoon in <strong>Just Like Heaven<\/strong>. Other than that, he has played character roles in bigger films like <strong>Collateral <\/strong>and <strong>Reservation Road <\/strong>and leads in indies like <strong>You Can Count On Me<\/strong>. He might be a recognizable faxce, but he&#8217;s not quite a household name as of yet.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time he has been up for a role in a comic book film. MTV&#8221;S <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150928085524\/http:\/\/splashpage.mtv.com\/2010\/07\/14\/avengers-hulk-mark-ruffalo-comic-book-movies-the-dark-knight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Splash Page <\/a>remembers an interview Ruffalo did while promoting <strong>Blindness <\/strong>in 2008 where he admitted to auditioning for the role of Harvey Dent in <strong>The Dark Knight<\/strong>. The role eventually went to Aaron Eckhart.<\/p>\n<p>In the same interview, Ruffalo also admitted to being a comic book reader in his younger days (Name dropping Frank Miller and <strong>Uncanny X-Men<\/strong>) and expressed doubts that he would ever work in a comic book film. Let&#8217;s see if he was wrong on that way of thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Well, if this was true, Edward Norton wasn&#8217;t all that hard to replace. Dateline:Hollywood is reporting that actor Mark Ruffalo is in &#8220;late-stage talks&#8221; with Marvel Studios to take over the role of Bruce Banner, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/14\/is-mark-ruffalo-the-new-hulk-in-the-avengers\/\" title=\"Is Mark Ruffalo The New Hulk In THE AVENGERS?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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":[106,84],"tags":[1021,763,2700,465,246,2954,2663,564,1372,2955,684,279,2957,2956],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comicsandfilm","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aaron-eckhart","9":"tag-blindness","10":"tag-collateral","11":"tag-edward-norton","12":"tag-frank-miller","13":"tag-just-like-heaven","14":"tag-mark-ruffalo","15":"tag-marvel-studios","16":"tag-reese-witherspoon","17":"tag-reservation-road","18":"tag-the-avengers","19":"tag-the-dark-knight","20":"tag-uncanny-x-men","21":"tag-you-can-count-on-me"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9097"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=9097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}