Deadline Hollywood is reporting that they have “learned” that Mark Ruffalo is in “late-stage” discussions to replace Edward Norton as Bruce Banner in The Avengers movie.
He’s always been an actor’s actor and is getting critical raves in Focus Features’ The Kids Are All Right which oepned last weekend. But I’ve learned that he’s now in late-stage discussions between Marvel and his brand-new agency United Talent to play this key member of The Avengers ensemble.
Of course, file this away in your “rumor file” for now (as always), but there’s no debating this guy is a really good actor. It might be hard to envision this guy as an “action star”, but considering the likelyhood of all his action-screen time would be done by a giant “hulking” (LOLZ, Punny!) CG version of him, I think he could do it. He’d make a great Banner I think, so I hope there is some truth to this. That, and I have never heard any reports of Ruffalo being an ass on the set of a movie.