Louis Leterrier recently sat down with Wizard to chat up his work on "The Incredible Hulk," which is taking the "Batman Begins" route and kindasorta bypassing the continuity established by the earlier film.  There's a new Hulk, played by Edward Norton, and a new Betty played by Liv Tyler, and a new set of villains starting with Tim Roth's Abomination.  More importantly, the take is not going to be anything like the moody 2003 "Hulk."

Leterrier said, "It's a fresh start because I saw there is a real fan base for Ang Lee’s movie.  I didn’t want to offend [the fans] in any way, and also I like the movie. It was very interesting. [However] it was weaker ground to build a big franchise upon so we decided to scrap it and establish it from bases that are more comic book-based and TV show-based."

He added: "[T]he Abomination, Emil Blonsky, was who Marvel wanted to put in this chapter -- the first chapter of our new saga -- because he’s the most famous. He's an enemy that can actually threaten the Hulk. It's very important for me that there is a danger. When Bruce Banner is Hulk, I didn’t feel in Ang Lee’s 'Hulk' that there was any threat. He was invincible. So with Abomination there's actually a monster that can, you know, kill him when he's in the Hulk form."

The film is due out on June 13, 2008.