Ang Lee: I could do 'whatever I wanted' with Hulk because 'superheroes were not a genre yet'
You simply can’t get that kind of freedom in comic book filmmaking these days. “I think it would be harder now because back then superhero movies were not a genre yet,” Lee reflects. “Six months before mine was coming out, there was [Sam Raimi’s]. You take the comic books, but you do whatever you want with them. It was not a genre.” It wasn’t just the genre that was new: “[With] movies that had over $100 million budgets, nobody really knew how to control them,” Lee adds.
,” Lee says. While he’s glad the film has found an audience, and “very proud of the filmmakers who made the movie with me,” he’s not looking to make a return to the now-ubiquitous genre any time soon. “I did it once and that was that.”
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