Edward Norton sounded off pretty well last year through his agent when Marvel Studios announced that he wouldn’t be returning to the role of Bruce Banner for a Hulk sequel or The Avengers as the studio had decided to go with Mark Ruffalo while making it sound like it was all about the money side of things. Norton lashed out then while still making plenty of praise for Ruffalo since the two are friends. It’s been just about a year since then and Norton is out and about again, this time talking up The Independent.
“I found it a cheap and unnecessary representation that it was about things other than money,” Norton said. “They came to me avidly to talk about it and then, at the end of the day, it was just flat out a business decision.”
Norton further says that the way Marvel went about their statement was , “low, unprofessional and dishonest.”
“I would say that blew back on them much worse than it blew back on me,” the actor further reveals about how the public declarations played out. “I couldn’t have been happier with the experience that I had making the film, but nor do I feel any kind of intensity about doing it again. A really good friend of mine’s going to do it now [Mark Ruffalo] and he’s awesome! Marvel’s going to have to deal with their own karma. They’ve got bigger problems than me.”