By Iain Blair

Chatting with Louis Leterrier, the tall French director helming the rebooted The Incredible Hulk movie due out soon. Louis made his mark with the action-packed “Transporter” series, although he told me, “I’m not really an action film director.” In his all-new, explosive and action-packed epic, scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him – the Hulk. Living in the shadows—cut off from a life he knew and the woman he loves, Betty Ross (Liv Tyler)—Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit of his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt), and the military machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his power.

Louis promises an exciting ride,  but he’s also well aware that after Ang Lee’s under-performing Hulk, the film’s also fighting some bad buzz. That includes rumors that star Edward Norton feuded with Marvel producers over the final cut. “No, it’s not over the final cut,” Louis tells me. “There was a little disagreement but it’s now all resolved. And it wasn’t about the final cut but an early cut, and it’s weird then as you don’t know what’ll stay in and what doesn’t. And Marvel wanted one thing, Edward wanted something else, and I was stuck in the middle. But on every film I’ve ever done there’s disagreements. It happens all the time.”

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