So this is how I get a message passed on to me in my house:
“Oh, dad. Somebody from Universal called four or five days ago about ‘The Hulk.’ I’ll go get the message; I wrote it down on a piece of paper and stuck it to the fridge. (Two minutes later.) I guess it got thrown out. They’ll probably call back.”
Ten minutes of screaming ensued as I envisioned Ang Lee saying, “Fine, if David couldn’t be bothered to call back, we’ll go to our next person on the list of people we have to do rewrites on the screenplay.” Well, it wasn’t about doing rewrites on the movie. Steve Saffel at Del Rey managed to put me together with the nice lady who had called here, namely Cindy Chang at Universal, who it turns out was calling me about the prospect of writing the novelization of the HULK movie. Apparently between the generally positive reception of the Spidey novelization and the fact that I do have *some* passing familiarity with the character, it was felt that I was the guy to turn the screenplay into a book.
And I said “Sure.” Because, y’know, why not? Which means, since I’m signing a non-disclosure agreement, that over the next months I will be *extremely* silent in terms of comments about the contents of the film. Although I do feel confident in saying that the Hulk will have absolutely no biological webspinners.
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