Marvel films: Is She-Hulk a possibility?

[Guy Gardener]

Eliza Dushku is playing animated She-Hulk right now, and it was two seasons before they mentioned her law degree, because she is also a stunt woman and a test pilot which is more comforting to a nine year olds definition of a super hero.

Howard the Duck and She Hulk have had some traumatic adventures together over the years. Was Howard a back door into She Hulk? Seth Green did the voice acting for Howard, who is also in Agent's of S.M.A.S.H. as Rick Jones/A-Bomb.

 

[Nightowl1701]

**Almost questions/mocks Guy's grammar on Howard being a 'back door into She Hulk,' thinks better of it**

Casting-wise, here's your perfect Jennifer Walters right here: Mandy Moore. Fits Jen's description to a T, height and all, and we know she can act.

 

[Guy Gardener]

5 foot nine?

I suppose if no one else in the cast is above 5 foot 8, she could pull off a relative jade giantess.

I need more Mandy in my life.

Did you see her in that youtube parody/documentary as Lois Lane?

I gave her 3 and a half Margot Kidders.

 

[Nightowl1701]

Actually, according to Marvel, 5'9 (5'10, really) is Jen's height pre-transformation. Shulkie's about 9 inches taller. How much CGI ripped-muscle enhancement you'd have to do depends on how much gym time Mandy's willing to put in* - otherwise, you could get away with green body paint, greenish-black wig, lifts and a bit of Lord of the Rings forced perspective to pull Shulkie off. (Bonus points if you throw in the Bixby eyes.)

* Originally in the comics, Jen was average build. Eventually she figures out 'the stronger Jen gets, the even stronger She-Hulk gets' and starts working out in human form.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

To me, they should go a Lou Ferrigno route and use green makeup for She Hulk. Unfortunately, because She-Hulk is so talkative, it would mean having an actress who's essentially a co-star with whoever plays Jennifer Walters.

 

[Reverend]

To me, they should go a Lou Ferrigno route and use green makeup for She Hulk. Unfortunately, because She-Hulk is so talkative, it would mean having an actress who's essentially a co-star with whoever plays Jennifer Walters.

Or they could pull a similar trick to what they did with Steve Rogers: hire an actor with the appropriate build (or close enough to fake it with some forced perspective/platform shoe trickery) and just paint her green, then comp her face onto a body double to play the character pre-transformation. Maybe even a subtle silicone muscle suit to wear under her costume since the odds of finding a good dramatic/comedic actress who is also a seven foot tall body builder are decidedly slim.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Sure, for a movie. I was thinking a TV show.

 

[JD]

Couldn't you just use one actress and keep her in loose clothes and use camera tricks to make her look shorter when she's not Hulked out?

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Well, she's gotta wear court appropriate attire, which doesn't really lend itself to loose-fitting clothing.

 

[Guy Gardener]

You know it's easy to tell a She Hulk Story where we never see pink Jennifer Walters.

"But what about her origin?!?"

"My idiot cousin gave me a blood transfusion... Tadahhh!"

 

[Awesome Possum]

Just saying she's the Hulk's cousin would be enough for most audiences.

 

[Guy Gardener]

One drop of blood fell into that bottling plant in the Hulk movie.

Sticking 2 pints into Jennifer is an awful idea.

 

[Reverend]

Sure, for a movie. I was thinking a TV show.

Theoretically speaking they'd only need do the body double trick in the pilot (assuming they even bother with an origin story) as I gather she tends to stay green almost all the time.

 

[Guy Gardener]

In her first series, Walters switched back and forth quite a lot because she was living in a small town (in her parents house?) as her father the Sheriff was hunting her... Later Jennifer was stuck as a Hulk, and later still in the Dan Slott series the law firm hired her only so long as their officespace was a She-Hulk free zone.

Captian American also had a very disturbing talk with She-Hulk (in Dan's first issue) that the physchological manifestaiton of gamma radiation (The Leader was a janitor who got super intelligence, Banner was a weakling who got strength.) on people, inverted mousey Jennifer Walter's sexuality, then Steve said something like "Avenger's Tower is not a Brothel", and kicked Shulkie off the team.

 

[Nightowl1701]

In her first series, Walters switched back and forth quite a lot because she was living in a small town (in her parents house?) as her father the Sheriff was hunting her...

Yeah, nobody's gonna want to see that. A bit too Bixby/Ferrigno.

Captain America also had a very disturbing talk with She-Hulk (in Dan's first issue) that the physiological manifestation of gamma radiation (The Leader was a janitor who got super intelligence, Banner was a weakling who got strength.) on people, inverted mousy Jennifer Walter's sexuality, then Steve said something like "Avenger's Tower is not a Brothel", and kicked Shulkie off the team.

Except the Leader in the MCU was already a pretty smart biochemist before getting some Hulk blood dripped on his injured head. And while you could call Ed Norton a bit of a beanpole, Mark Ruffalo ain't exactly a pushover.

One drop of blood fell into that bottling plant in the Hulk movie.

Sticking 2 pints into Jennifer is an awful idea.

You do have a point there - the origin would need some tweaking. Jen was shot only once (in the back) in the comic. To be believable that she would need a blood transfusion (with no blood of her type on hand other than Bruce's) right that minute to survive, she'd have to be shot up worse than pre-cyborg Robocop. And if anything would push Bruce over the edge into a Hulkout, seeing his cousin bleeding out in front of him would do it.

Hmm. Whatever happened to Mr. Blue, anyway? Maybe instead have him pull a switch and slip Jen some re-engineered Hulk blood at the hospital, to see what it'd do before he tried it on himself (to get a supersized physique to match his now supersized skull).

 

[Guy Gardener]

Does she have to get bigger?

Green should be enough.

Although, what about Grey?


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[HIjol]

((((((((The Green Zone is for...))))))) nah, that's been beaten to death...

How about, she gave blood at a Blood Bank, and something went tragically, irreversibly wrong?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Bruce tried to shield the wee lawyer from machine gun fire with his milksop body, which sprayed Jennifer in her cousin's blood, until she hulked out.

 

[Nerys Myk]

She was bitten by a radioactive cousin.

 

[HIjol]

TrueBlood:

"Jennifer, I am your Cousin...search your feelings...you know it to be true..."