We know Marvel is trying all it can to disconnect ‘The Incredible Hulk’ from the Ang Lee’s movie in 2003 – or should I say flop? But not only the marketing department is busy with distinguishing the new movie from ‘The Hulk,’ the creators are also pressuring the fact their movie is a totally fresh and original experience. Latino Review caught up with the director and producers of the new movie.

Director Louis Leterrier said, “I respect Ang’s movie tremendously and I love Ang’s movie. I just didn’t want to do the same thing. […] we have to all try together to make people understand that this is really not the sequel to the first movie, but it’s not a reboot of the first movie where you do the same thing.”

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Marvel plans to stay ‘faithful to the source material and completely traditional’ with their Captain America movie. ‘The First Avenger: Captain America’ will be a period piece taking place during World War II, just like the comic book, Marvel’s Kevin Feige said.

A couple of weeks ago, some websites claimed Matthew McConaughey was Marvel’s top choice for Captian America. While it would be pretty early to start casting for a movie released in during the summer of 2011 first of all, Feige says it’s simply not true. We all know how the internet works I guess.

Was the movie really that good or did ‘Iron Man’ just wake everybody up after all those slow weeks? Whatever the reason is, the balls are rolling and this is what came out of the success of ‘Iron Man.’

First, the confirmed sequel. Set for release in 2010, but who is involved? Robert Downey Jr. has been confirmed to be under contract for another film, but Jon Favreau hasn’t signed yet. “We’ve been speaking informally about it, and in concept we would all love to work together again. But I found out about the announcement last night, so it’s not something that — we would definitely love to collaborate more with the sequel,” Favrau told EW. Those are some careful words. Apparently Jon Favreau didn’t know about the confirmation of ‘Iron Man 2′ until Marvel announced it last Monday. You would think a man like him shouldn’t have to find out on the news.

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