Nelson Leaders The Incredible Hulk

By Ryan 'The Rican with the Irish name' McLelland on July 31, 2007

Tim Blake Nelson has joined the cast of Marvel Studios' "The Incredible Hulk" the Hollywood Reporter has announced.

The movie, which Louis Leterrier is directing, sees Bruce Banner/Hulk on the run, trying to avoid capture long enough to cure the condition that turns him into a monster.

Nelson will play a scientist named Samuel Sterns. In Hulk lore, Sterns, aka "The Leader," is one of the Hulk's major antagonists, a menial worker in a chemical research plant who is bombarded with gamma radiation. He emerges from his accident not only green-skinned but also superintelligent, with an oversized brain.

Nelson joins a strong comic book movie cast that includes two-time Oscar nominee Edward Norton (Banner), Liv Tyler (Betty Ross), Tim Roth (villain Emil Blonsky/the Abomination) and William Hurt (General Ross, Betty's father).

Zak Penn wrote the latest big-screen adventure of the green goliath,  however we now know that Edward Norton has tackled the screenplay himself.  Universal Pictures is distributing domestically June 13, 2008.

Source:Hollywood Reporter