For those unaware, Norton had some issues with the final cut of Louis Letterier's Incredible Hulk, which he had co-written. When asked about returning to work with Marvel in the future, Norton had been somewhat dismissive at the idea.

Since all the Marvel Studios' individual films are building towards the Avengers, in which the Hulk is rumored to be one of the villains, Norton was asked if there had been any communication between himself and the studio. Norton's response was cheerfully optimistic about things working themselves out. "Yeah, to some degree, through my agents. But there's always been an agenda I think to unspool a lot of the Marvel Universe and then come back. I think they've got a lot of new stuff that they're rolling out and then I think at some point they're going to figure out how they want to get around to Avengers."

"The main guy I had a beef with there left anyways, as always happens," he admitted. "As David Mamet said, 'Just wait 'em out cause they'll be gone, and you'll still be there.'"

Edward Norton stars in Leaves of Grass, an original comedy by his Incredible Hulk co-star Tim Blake Nelson, where Norton plays a dual role of two very different identical twins.

Speaking of Nelson and Norton, Ain't It Cool News talked to both of the actors at the film festival as well.

At some point, I looked over at Tim - and just had to tell him how much I hope he gets to play the Leader in a feature length Hulk flick or a future installment in the Marvel universe, and the reaction from the two of these guys was priceless. There was a twinkle of something unspoken and delightful between the two of them - and Tim responded, "Well, I certainly hope I get to, but that's up to Ed here," Then Ed quickly stated, "Actually, I think Harry has more pull than me on that" - but there was a smile on his face.

"Previz," or previsualization, is a 3-D digital representation of a sequence of a film using a virtual camera in order to simulate the look of a fully produced, edited sequence. Previz has become a very popular planning tool (like storyboarding) because it allows the director and his or her team to experiment and communicate sequences in the film.

I hate previz. I've never used it, and I will never use it. I didn't use it on the Wolfman, and I won't use it on Captain America. Hate it. Previz tells the crew this is exactly what you want, and I think it's much more of a crutch than anything else. It sends a message to the crew that you've worked out all of your problems, you've had your meetings and you've figured out exactly what you want to do, and here's the movie, take a look. But nothing could be further from the truth. It's a sequence that was created in a computer, and it has no relation to what it's going to be when you're really out there, on location, on a stage, with real actors who are hitting their marks and saying their lines. It's completely useless. There are visual effects people who will say, "Gee, we'd better previz this so we know exactly what we're doing," and I tell them to go ahead and waste money on previz because you need it to understand the elements of the sequence - for instance, identifying at what point you're going to duplicate the army or create set extensions - but don't show it to anybody and say this is what the director wants. Never.

I think storyboards are great and do more than previz can do, and they do it in a form that everyone understands. No one assumes it's exactly what you're looking for because it's a piece of paper, a static image. Animatics, while they sometimes stray dangerously close to the evil previz, are more like moving storyboards that can give you a sense of timing and, for people who look at storyboards and can't imagine what the sequence is, animatics are OK. But previz has an aura about it because it's so close to what they think you want. It moves, people change and look like they are walking; you're moving through a virtual set, and it all becomes very misleading. Previz is banned from the Captain America world.

I actually prefer to just work with a shot list on set and not even storyboards, because I think if the crew has previously seen the storyboards, and they're familiar with the sequence, then they can use the shot list on set to organize their knowledge of what the scene is, the same way I do. It's a more effective tool for making the day.

There's no hard Captain America news I can share with you right now. I'm really pleased with the team we're assembling, though. We're shooting in the UK, so we'll be hiring some people over there, and I've got Rick Heinrichs as my production designer (he was also my production designer for the Wolfman). Shelly Johnson is shooting the picture, and Rick Whelan (who saved my life many times on the Wolfman) is my first assistant director. We don't have an editor yet, but we're pulling the team together. Stay tuned, though; we're going to be assembling a tremendous cast.

Weaving played Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy and Elrond in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. If he takes on the role, Weaving would be reuniting with the Wolfman director Joe Johnston. Weaving also has previous comic book experience behind the mask in V for Vendetta.

The dealmaking with Weaving is in a delicate stage that will play out in the next day or so. Agencies claim that Marvel plays hardball in the negotiating process and also demands multi-movie commitments, though the latter usually applies to actors playing its heroes.

In the comics, Red Skull has been Captain America's archenemy since 1941, when he engaged in espionage and sabotage as Hitler's right-hand man. In his final battle with the superhero, he was buried under the rubble of a bombed building but - as would occur later with Captain America - fell into a state of suspended animation. Both were revived in modern times.

The character was the villain in the low-budget 1990 Captain America movie. In February 2010, Johnston confirmed that Red Skull would be the villain once again.

Johnston and the studio are currently casting Steve Rogers/Captain America. The film is expected to hit theaters on July 22, 2011.

Thanks to Superhero Hype for the update.

Was Samuel L. Jackson telling the truth when he said that he doesn't appear in Thor?

Yes. In the official script version, he is not. That could change in time though. He wasn't in the original script of Iron Man either but they changed it late in the game. The same can be said for Robert Downey Jr. In fact the only cameo of great significance is from Stan Lee.

Besides Thor, what other Asgardians from the comics are a part of the story.

Idris Elba, who did some great work on HBO's the Wire plays Heimdall, the keeper of the Rainbow Bridge that connects Asagard to Earth. He basically controls who crosses that bridge and [who] comes in and out of Asgard. Basically, there are nine realms. Earth is one of the realms and Asgard is another. Heimdall watches over the nine realms from his observatory. What's great is, the Asgardians are supposed to be Norse gods, but a black actor was chosen to be one of them. Someone like Idris Elba is a leading man type of guy and is nice to have. Some people may think "Oh, he shouldn't be black," but Elba has a strong presence and it's really good casting.

Editor's Note: Personally, I think the casting of Elba is fantastic. A clip of his performance from American Gangster can be viewed here (which includes an interview) while the trailer for another of his films, Obsessed, can be found here.

The same could be said for Hogun, who's also a Norse god, but in the comics actually looks Mongolian. In the film he's played by a Japanese actor. That's what's so great about Branagh, this is a multi-cultural cast and he doesn't care because wants the best people. There's even a Hispanic actor playing a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Branagh doesn't care what an actor's nationality [is], he just wants the best performers and treats everyone, big and small, like they're important. The film has a pretty relaxed set too, because everyone here are professionals and know what jobs they have to do. And then there's Stuart Townsend.

What's the real story about Townsend's abrupt exit from the production?

It appears he wasn't happy with the limited screen-time of his character Fandral. There was friction with him from the very beginning as far back as his screen test which he basically blew off. He wasn't the first choice of either Marvel or the film's producers to begin with, but when they brought him in, they liked him. They thought he did a good job. It looks like the fact that his character doesn't have a pivotal role in the movie made him sort of slack off and say, "Well, [expletive] this movie. I'm not the lead, so who [expletive] cares?" They say he had a similar attitude when he made the Lord of the Rings ten years ago and look how that turned out. They replaced him with Viggo Mortensen and the rest is history.

He failed to realize the movie is not called Fandral, it's called Thor. The movie's not about him. Its surprising, because he was one of the longest working actors on the project yet he still acts like a diva. There was an incident where he had a costume test and blew that off. The studio had people working under deadlines fly in to meet him and he showed up six hours late. When they complained, his response was something like "Oh, well could we just do it now?" Talk about arrogance. Townsend's been replaced by another actor named Joshua Dallas and he's just come from doing Red Tails near San Francisco where the rumors of George Lucas directing re-shoots on the film are not rumors, they're true.

Have they completed any visual F/X work on Thor like Red Tails?

Some. All the work they are doing now is the difficult stuff like the Asgard sequences. The sound stages for that have already been completed and they are beautiful. They're shooting it out at Raleigh Studios in Manhattan Beach and the sets they've built are six stories high. You're inside a gigantic building and you're like, "This is unbelievable. I can't believe that people physically built this." It looks like something that's ancient and from another world. They really did a great job. Natalie Portman should be heading there soon, she just finished Black Swan and has just started shooting her scenes in New Mexico.

What about Tom Hiddleston as Loki the film's main villain?

He's great and what's funny is that Tom had actually come in to audition for Thor but he's very tall and very thin. Kind of lanky. Marvel said, "No," but then it came up that maybe he should audition for Loki and he apparently put himself on tape and was amazing. He had also worked with Kenneth Branagh already in London. This movie is as much an origin story for Loki as it is for Thor and he's not only the hero's nemesis but [also] his brother. How do you deal with a situation like that where the very person who is trying to destroy you is your adopted brother?

In the script, Thor is basically banished to Earth because he's arrogant and proud and must learn what it is to live among mortals. And while the cat's away, the mouse will play. While he's gone, Loki starts discovering things about himself, including his desire to be all powerful. He wants to be as well loved as Thor and that jealousy starts creating these complications. "Why can't I be the ruler? Why am I always in his shadow?" So he starts developing those feelings while Thor's gone. It's a very good script with pretty much half of the movie in Asgard and the other half on Earth. I think people will be pleased with the way it unfolds.

When might we finally see a teaser trailer?

Probably at Comic-Con. The scheduled release date is May 6, 2011. I think that's the actual release date, handed down from Marvel. They could put it in front of the new Iron Man 2 movie, but that's this May and a little too soon. Marvel wants to release the film exactly a year after Iron Man 2. The release is almost 365 days later. And then Captain America in July 2011 and the Avengers will be the following year, 2012. That's what they're trying to do, line them up like that. May of every year, there will be a new Marvel movie out.

Are there any Easter eggs or hidden clues in Thor?

No, in terms of the script, it's pretty straight forward. It's more through the dialogue, here and there that they'll say something. Everything’s obviously connected, like every piece of S.H.I.E.L.D. tech has the Stark Industries logo on it. Even on a pen or computer screens in the movie. You'll notice it on the computer screen's upper left-hand corner, everything says Stark Industries. You already know that we have a deal with Tony Stark, which you kind of got from the first Iron Man's conclusion. Now you know S.H.I.E.L.D. is officially in league with him. And you'll probably see stuff like that in Captain America or the Avengers on a S.H.I.E.L.D. heli-carrier.

More Thor information from Latino Review can be found here.

Kathryn Bigelow, the veteran filmmaker who won Oscars on Sunday for best picture and best director, has also been cautious about signing on to a new film. The Hurt Locker director-producer has turned down a host of jobs on big-budget movies, including an offer to direct the relaunch of the Spider-Man franchise - the job wound up going to (500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb. Instead, she'll likely concentrate on a passion project called Triple Frontier for Paramount that she signed up to do long before the Oscar talk started.

Other directors that were considered for the job included Michael Bay, Gary Ross, Matthew Vaughn, best director nominee James Cameron, David Fincher, and Wes Anderson.

• Number - 306 (Season 3, Episode 6)
• Title - Framed
• Original Airdate - September 21, 1996
• Synopsis:
  Peter believes his luck is changing for the better when Richard Fisk, son of Wilson Fisk, hires him for a job. Things turn out to be too good to be true when Fisk frames Peter for a federal crime. Enter Peter's lawyer Matt Murdoch, also known as the vigilante Daredevil.

A full episode guide with each episode released so far can be viewed here.

We all know that the events in Iron Man (and possibly Iron Man 2) take place before the Incredible Hulk. How does Thor fit into this time-line?

In terms of timeline, Thor is set after the Incredible Hulk. In the script we make mention of gamma radiation and one of the scientist characters, I think Stellan Skarsgard's Professor Ford recalls, "There was brilliant scientist (Bruce Banner). He was a genius with gamma radiation and somehow S.H.I.E.L.D. made him disappear." So Thor's story would take place after the Incredible Hulk.

Editor's Note: In February 2010, Jon Favreau tweeted that Iron Man 2 takes place before the Incredible Hulk.

How does Thor figure into the Avengers? Does he become a full-fledged member of the team?

Basically, at the end of the movie, Thor makes mention to Clark Gregg's character Agent Coulson that his kingdom of Asgard and S.H.I.E.L.D. are on the same side and whenever they need his help, he will be there to assist them in battle. It does leave it open, with Thor basically saying "When you need me and you want to assemble a team, I'm down." So, this is obviously pre-Avengers, post-Incredible Hulk.

So at this point are the Avengers already assembled like when Tony Stark told General Ross (William Hurt) at the Incredible Hulk's conclusion: "We're putting a team together"?

At this point, Nick Fury and Tony Stark would have already started amassing people.

How is an actor and director as deeply rooted in the world of Shakespeare like Kenneth Branagh handling comic book material like Thor?

Branagh is fantastic. The guy is a passionate director. He makes everything and everyone important, no matter how small their role in the production is. He's keeping the material very close to the comic. The tone is - even the way the stuff looks - is darker. So it's cool. Iron Man was cool because it was light, but not too light like the Batman movies that Tim Burton made and it was not as heavy as say, Chris Nolan's the Dark Knight. Iron Man was the perfect comic book movie because it was the light and the dark sides sort of mixed together. Thor balances the same things as well. It plays the light side with the stuff on Earth and then the heavier side with what happens up in Asgard and the battle that occurs. Marvel has done a really good job of trying to blend what they need to have a successful movie and what they need to keep all the fan boys happy. They're doing an excellent job.

Chris Hemsworth in the lead role of Thor.

He's not only [expletive] great, but a cool guy and about as normal a guy that you'll ever meet. I know everyone is saying that. Chris had auditioned for another movie, but failed to win the part, yet he was very open and self-deprecating about it. He even said "Yeah, yeah. I auditioned for that. But apparently I was pretty terrible." He'll have that sort of attitude about it and kind of make fun of himself. "Yeah, I pretty much stunk the joint up when I went in and auditioned for that." He's got that kind of self deprecating humor. Very, very cool dude. He is a perfect Thor. The guy's a physical specimen. He's 6'4"/6'5" and he's built like a brick house. He looks like he came down off that Rainbow Bridge and was ready to rock.

What about the look of Thor's costume and the iconic hammer?

Surprisingly, the costume looks amazing. We could tell early on from the production sketches of costumes and sets that this was going to be something good. It's just beautiful and the designers really took it to heart. If you look at some of the more recent Thor comics that are out now, the tone and the costuming is that. It's basically, the way you read the comics now, [they've] updated the way they are now and that's how the costumes are. I think everyone is going to be very, very happy. Nothing looks cheesy or cheap. Everything looks like it's real. Everything looks like it came from that period. And everything looks right on all the actors. Nothing looks stupid. I guess that's the best word. It's just jaw-dropping even to the Marvel executives.

What's funny is that when you see these Marvel executives you immediately think, "You guys are young. You guys read the comics?" They're involved in everything and they're the first ones to make a joke. So they would be like, "Yo, that hammer is [expletive] wrong", because they know that they have this fan base and they have to respect them. They know that those comics are their bread and butter. They took a big gamble with Marvel Studios and it's paying off because they pay attention to detail. And not only that, it's their movie watching experience. They want to watch it too and not be distracted by how bad the costumes are. So they really paid attention to it and they made it look flawless. It just looks flawless when you watch it.

Insiders at the Marvel compound say that Krasinski is close to landing the superhero role of his life, Captain America. John, who plays Jim on the Office, has appeared in front of producers repeatedly since the start of the new year and since rumors began in February.

"John has read four times and is doing screen tests," a source confirms. "He has screen tested two times so far. It's very likely that he will be the new Captain America. He is a favorite among the key decision makers and has been asked to come back for more this week."

"The big bosses are having him read with multiple actresses up for the female leads. They want to lock down the role and then they will narrow down everyone else."

Unfortunately, the Office star is not the chosen one for many comic fans who work for Marvel. "It's a surprise and we are bracing ourselves for 'that guy from the Office' to land Captain America. They are not really looking at the other guys, so it's time to get ready to work with him."

"If John gets offered the role, the pay will not be outrageous but it would be a multi-film deal. Marvel has big plans to tie the movies together and John would have parts in all of them since the first Captain America will be an origin story. The movie will break down how Steve Rogers becomes Captain America."

The First Avenger: Captain America is set for release on July 22, 2011.

Update: Deadline New York and Heat Vision are reporting that John Krasinski is out of the running.

Update #2: (March 10, 2010) According to the Hollywood Reporter, John Krasinski is in negotiations to join the romantic comedy Something Borrowed. The article states that the film, directed by Luke Greenfield, will start filming in the spring.

Joe Johnston previously stated that the First Avenger: Captain America will start filming at the end of June.

Schreiber also restated thoughts from February 23rd, saying he doesn't know if Sabertooth will be returning because the character is not in the Japan storyline. He hopes he comes back because he likes the character but seemed unsure and nothing's definite.

It was recently reported that screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie finished the script and that filming could commence as early as January 2011.