The pairing of Hellboy‘s Guillermo Del Toro and ‘Battlestar Galactica’ creator David Eick should be enough to get any fanboy excited, but pairing them together on the new ‘Hulk’ television series is certainly one way to turn skeptics into believers. According to Deadline Hollywood, these two critical acclaimed creators will serve as Executive Producers with both men breaking the story for the pilot together. Eick will then write the pilot script and Del Toro will direct it. The TV project is aiming to launch right after the release of ‘The Avengers’ in 2012. While details are still in the planning stages, the story will be a origin story and the Hulk will be created on screen using a mixture of prosthetics, puppetry and CGI.
Del Toro offered these thoughts on the project:
“I have always been attracted at the combination of comic book heroics and monsters, Jack Kirby’s Demon or Kamandi or DC’s Deadman or Marvel’s Dr. Strange, Morbius, Metamorpho, Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, etc.”
As I said in the beginning, the pairing of these two gentlemen should be a win, but I don’t want to see another Hulk origin story. What are your thoughts? Sound off in our comments below!
Source: Deadline Hollywood
