What does one do after having starred in these three towering achievements of recent American cinema? And before you answer, note that said one is Edward Norton, in c4ts' view the most interesting American actor of his generation--a man so persnickety he turned down Matt Damon's role in Saving Private Ryan, a man so protective of his career he fought Paramount tooth and nail when it forced him to make good on an obviously valid old contract? (The studio's efforts resulted in Norton reluctantly playing the mustachioed villain in The Italian Job, a middling, though not embarrassing, remake of a cockney Mike classic.)Well, apparently what one does is to strip down to his tattered purple chinos (pictured) and jump head-first into the sea of artistic compromise: Norton is set to play the Incredible Hulk in a sequel to a movie I am pretty sure no one even saw. Here's to hoping this arrangement is part of some sort of Faustian bargain that will result in Motherless Brooklyn actually being made and released. Or maybe the two movies could be combined: Bruce Banner gets exposed to gamma rays and develops a weird form of melanoma and a bout of Tourette's? Hollywood, thoughts?
