Breaking news at Variety: Edward Norton has been cast as Bruce Banner in the new movie based on the Marvel Comics character The Incredible Hulk. Bruce Banner, as you may well know, is the man who is also The Hulk, a giant unstoppable creature triggered and controlled only by rage.

Norton takes up the reins from Eric Bana, who starred in the Ang Lee directed The Hulk in 2003. This new movie, as has been stated and re-stated is not a sequel or in anyway related. Marvel Studios got the rights back from Universal and is moving forward with a more traditional vision for the film.

So what do you think? Edward Norton is certainly a great actor, and though he hasn’t been in too many huge movies lately American History X and Fight Club more than prove his worth. Leave us a comment!

Bragging to all your friends that you’re the one who bought them: Priceless

Don’t worry, they didn’t really kill Wolverine and auction pieces of him off, Ferengi style. These are just the claws they used in X2: X-Men United. So that’s still pretty cool. I mean, it’s not like they were the claws from X3, right?

ComicsAlliance.com has a lengthy article on the sale, and some further insight into other movie memorabilia auctions, including costumes for Superman ($115,000), Batman ($63,000), and the Rocketeer (only $23,000 – what a savings!).

IGN has posted a preview of the pair of Transformer DS games. Sounds pretty interesting, the games are completely different and will feature levels and playable characters unique to each version. Perhaps the most intriguing detail is that it will support Nintendo WiFi Connection for “Allspark War” with up to 4 players in Team Deathmatch and other gametypes. Considering there is no online multiplayer in the console versions, this is a very welcome surprise!

Speaking of the console versions, today you can put $5 down on any of these games at GameStop (yeah, I know) and they’ll give you the movie poster. I placed my reserve on Transformers Collector’s Edition on Xbox 360, weighing in a $69.99. If past Collectors Editions are any indication, I should get a second disc full of concept art and documentaries in steel book packaging.

A trailer has surfaced for the forthcoming Transformers Movie this summer. This version has a bit more action in it, but most importantly, we get our first listen at Optimus Prime speaking. Watch for yourself.

UPDATE – The YouTube video has been taken down. Once we find a new one, we’ll be sure to post it for you, but until then you can access the file directly right HERE. Watch out dial-uppers, it’s about 2 MB.

Mark your calendars!
7/4/07

Thanks to Elysa for the tip!

Speed Racer

Emile Hirsch has already been cast as Speed. Susan Sarandon and John Goodman have already been cast as his parents. And the newest member to join this awesome freakshow? Christina Ricci as Trixie! You know, the girl from Casper and The Addams Family! (I haven’t seen any movies since 1995.)

Fantastic Four 2

Totally unconfirmed, but I just thought the rumor that Laurence Fishburne may be the voice of Galactus was pretty entertaining. Let the Ba-lack-tus jokes commence!

Courtesy IGN, we have the Stan Winston built suit for Iron Man. This is the first of many Iron Man suits the character Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr) will wear in the movie. Its highly reminiscent of the suit that first appeared in “Tales Of Suspense” where Iron Man was first published. The more familiar ketchup & mustard flavored suit will still be in the movie.

Directed by Jon Favreau, Iron Man is due May 2008.

David Goyer, most recently known for his work writing Batman Begins, is going to be putting his pen to work on a movie called “Super Max.” This seems to be a name of a supervillain jail, but the movie is focusing on one specific prisoner – a fella named Oliver Queen. (You may know him better as the Green Arrow.) The premise sounds awesome, but don’t take my word for it. Here’s Goyer’s description:

He’s Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he’s arrested and his secret identity is revealed … They shave his goatee and they take his costume and send him to prison for life, and he has to escape. It’s like ‘Alcatraz,’ and he has to team up with, in some cases, some of the very same villains he is responsible for incarcerating in order to get out and clear his name. Of course, tons of people try to kill him while he’s in there. We’ve populated the prison with all sorts of B and C villains from the DC Universe. For the fans, there will be all sorts of characters the hardcore comic book junkies will know, but they’re all going to be there under their human names and no one is wearing a costume, but there will be a lot of characters with powers and things like that.

Sounds like a fantastic premise for a movie, an excellent use of the DC Universe, and an interesting application of the character. Can’t you just imagine Ollie use a sharpened plastic fork and elastic from his underwear to impale a man 2,000 yards away?

Hugo Weaving may have landed the role of Megatron in the 2007 Transformers movie, but the video game adaptation will feature Frank Welker. This will be the first time Frank Welker has voiced Megatron in over 20 years, last seen in Transformers The Movie in 1986. According to GameSpot, Welker will be joined by Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime. GameSpot also has an interview with Frank Welker, and one with Peter Cullen.

GameSpot also released 3 new screenshots from the game, shown here. All three feature Bumblebee fighting Decepticons.

Update! The rub with posting stuff like this in the morning is that by the evening all the press-releases are out and I gotta update the post. So, check out the new game site, http://www.transformersgame.com/. Make sure you’ve got your flash up to date and you’ll get more screen shots from the game , the developers’ blog, and, even a poll to name some of the new Transformers that appear in the game. Coolest of all is a new interview with Peter Cullen and Frank Welker. Just click through to the videos section for that. Bonus: watching Welker talk and hearing Fred from Scooby Doo.