Q: What about the behind-the-scenes material?

Louis Leterrier: Oh there’s like tons of stuff like great stuff.  That’s actually much longer.  We’ve got like 3 hours of material—how we made the “Hulk” and everything.  That’s great stuff.

Q: Getting into the 70, is it all character stuff?  Is it certain…

Louis Leterrier: Oh, there’s action stuff. There’s everything. We cut everything.  We give you the nice haircut like yours.

Q: Yeah, exactly.  But I have to do the follow-up.  Obviously Edward has been…well was vocal a little while ago about wanting to want a more character…there was a lot of debate online…

Louis Leterrier: No, I know what you…

Q: And so what was he looking for vs. what was put out?

Louis Leterrier: I think he was looking for…I think what happened….no.  I’ll tell you what happened exactly because I knew the timing exactly.  You know when you do your first movie, you do an assembly. Everything that you’ve shot you put it into an assembly.  Then after the assembly, you screen it.  And it’s called a suicide run because it’s absolutely horrible.  You want to commit suicide after you see it.  You’re like, “oh I wasted 2 years of my life, $150 million.  This is the worst movie ever.  I’m like a terrible director.  You cannot act.  You’re a terrible producer.”  So after this we had a meeting—just like this—like a round table where I go okay we have to find solutions.  And then we were screaming stuff and everything.  Maybe somebody walked in, a PA or somebody walked in, somebody who’s not used to it and we’re having a conversation and Edward was like…no, Edward’s very vocal.  He won’t say….he’s like “come on man” and he’s not arguing.  That’s how Edward is. I’m sure you guys have met him, you know, he’ll be like (making sounds) and the guy walks in and he’s like okay, Edward Norton is arguing about the cut and everything.  And he walks out and (sounds of typewriter) they’re arguing.  The next day when the Nikki Finke…Nicky Fink or whatever her name is…article came out, Edward was right next to me.  He’s like “you want to laugh?” I’m like, “Yeah, what’s up?”  “Read this”.  “Oh, shit, you know.  But I thought it would blow over.  I was like…yeah okay.  It’s like the same thing you see Britney Spears and everything.  I was okay, funny.  It’s like TMZ.com.  I didn’t care.  I was like okay, cool.  And then we kept on cutting and cutting and it became bigger and bigger and people were calling me and then Universal were calling “everything’s okay and everything?” and I was like “Edward’s right here next to me.  Talk to Edward.”  “Hey man, we’re cool. It’s me it was just a little argument”.  Then Edward…because he finished…he was an actor.  He had written a couple of versions of the screenplay and then he moved on.  He did his thing.  It just blew over.  Everybody was really surprised and Edward was like, “yeah it must have been a slow week in Hollywood if I’m like the you know if I become the Britney Spears of Hollywood.”  So it’s just…

Q: So that was it?

Louis Leterrier: That was it.  That was it.  We had to kill babies.  We killed some of my babies, some of his babies.  Like in the 70 minutes in you’ll see a scene that was actually in the trailer where you see the Ty Burrell character having a nice introspective talk with Edward.  But you saw the movie guys.  You know, it’s the moment where he spends the night with Betty and then she has a boyfriend and then they talked together and then it’s everything you know. It’s like…it was a long scene to give us an excuse to get that cool punch line that was given in the trailer like you know, you’ve never seen something…you know maybe you should see a shrink and he says no, you’ve haven’t seen a patient like me or something like that.  Just for one punch line—a long scene like that.  I go, okay maybe we don’t need that.  And it just started moving forward.  The problem with that suicide run—that suicide cut—was that it was a lot of stops and go and stops and go and stops and go and just the way I describe it to you, you know.  The Arctic scene—stop.  The credit sequence—go.  Brazil—stop. Transformation—go and stop.  It didn’t feel like a good fugitive movie like the “Bourne Supremacy”, like “The Fugitive” with Harrison Ford. These movies keep on going. They never stop, you know and we had to find something that is and it takes time to do that, you know and next time I’ll know.  When I do the first screening first of all, don’t do your meeting right after it because everybody’s like ahh, I fucking hate you, you know?  Do it a couple of days after and then do it behind closed door because no one can understand that.  It’s really tough.  You become really emotional.  It’s 2 years of your life.  It’s your own thing.  It’s like…keep it for yourself.

Q: Silly question. What do you think will take to kill the Hulk?

Louis Leterrier: Not a lot.  He almost dies in our movie, right?  He’s kind of a weak bastard, you know?  I think his weak thing is that he’s got to big of a heart so I think his demise actually in the comic book that’s it’s his heart.  He’s too kind.  He’s too nice of a superhero, so that’s the downfall of all superheroes.  Their feelings bring them down, that’s all.

Q: And what was Edward’s input on the actual shooting script?  How much of his stuff is in there still?

Louis Leterrier: Oh the dialogue is definitely his. The changing of the boyfriend for example, the Ty Burrell character was like a…he was a bastard at first and now he’s like a nice guy that kind of makes a mistake.  It was really good…Ed was really good with shades of gray.  Not making things black and white which sometimes…most of the times superhero movies have, you know the really bad guys and the really good guys.  Ed’s really good on the shades of gray and his input was tremendous on this.

Q: I know you just wrapped the film but I have to ask.  What do you have coming up?  Are you going to jump right back into another superhero?  Are you…?

Louis Leterrier: I actually—for the first time in my life—and it’s not crap, I don’t know what I’m doing next.  Just because, like you said, I’ve just wrapped.  I was like in post forever and I was like so into it.  I was virtually working 20 hour days and sometimes I was not…I don’t know if it’s in the press notes but sometimes I wasn’t sleeping for a week, like not sleeping for a week and I don’t know if you guys have ever done that.  It makes you crazy.  Like on Diet Coke and Red Bull, I was like ahhhh, just because there was so much work.  So I haven’t had time to read anything that I liked and also with the strike, it’s kind of weird.  There’s nothing happening.  People are all sort of like stopped and going okay let’s see, you know?  So, we’ll see.  And also, you know, everybody still thinks….they don’t know if it’s going to be a good movie or not, so, yesterday it was good, because lots of movie execs came to see the movie and they were like, “this is actually a good movie”.  I was like, “oh, thank you”.

Q: Roger Corman liked your movie.

Louis Leterrier: Oh did he?  Oh really?  

Q: I talked with him after we were walking after the movie and he said it’s just absolutely fantastic.

Louis Leterrier: Oh, that’s who I want to work with.

Q: I have to do one quick follow-up.  Comic-Con’s coming up in July, obviously you might go down there for “Hulk”, do you think…

Louis Leterrier: I don’t know.

Q: …well, maybe. Do you think there’s any chance of you showing some of those deleted scenes you talked about the 70 minutes at Comic-Con for the fans?

Louis Leterrier: Guys, do not do this--and action.

Q: No, but I’m being serious.  That might a really nice treat for the fans.

Louis Leterrier: That would be nice, yeah.  We’ll see.  It’s just I tell you; it’s not that interesting.  I mean, it’s interesting….only the good stuff is in the movie.  We just took out the bad stuff that’s why.  We didn’t take out any of the good stuff otherwise it would be a shame.  No, really I swear.

Q: Anything about a sequel yet?

Louis Leterrier: Sequel? Maybe. Maybe.  We’ll know on Saturday.