It was announced on December 10, 2020 that Mark Ruffalo will be reprising his role as Bruce Banner/The Hulk along with Tim Roth reprising his role as Emil Blonsky/Abomination from The Incredible Hulk (2008).Marvel's first full solo Hulk project. The Incredible Hulk (2008) was partly developed and distributed by Universal Studios. Up to this day, Marvel Studios still hasn't purchased the distribution rights to a Hulk film from Universal. This explains why a Hulk film featuring Mark Ruffalo could not be made despite Ruffalo taking the role in The Avengers (2012).On July 6, 2021, the site The Direct reported that there will be "many instances" of Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk (Tatiana Maslany) breaking the fourth wall or talking directly to the audience. The report also claimed that Jennifer will even be aware of and acknowledge that she is a character within the MCU. Both of these aspects of the character were a major part of the 1985 graphic novel and continuing comic series entitled, "The Sensational She-Hulk" by writer/artist John Byrne.Although each transformation from Jennifer Walters to She-Hulk and back is created using CGI, Malia Arrayah plays She-Hulk on-set for having reference of She-Hulk size (her face is replaced by the Tatiana Maslany using CGI). Maslany is 5' 4" (1,63 m) tall, while Arrayah is 6' 5¼" (1,96 m) tall.The original creation of the title character came from the success of The Incredible Hulk (1977). During that series' run, producer Kenneth Johnson was rumored to be considering creation of a female version of the Hulk. The character would be used on the series with the intent of possibly spinning her off into her own series (as Johnson had done with the The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)/The Bionic Woman (1976)). Their plan was to take David's sister, a character already established by early episodes, and have her receive an emergency blood transfusion from him. Due to the show's cancellation, this story never came to pass. However, Marvel Comics learned of this development and created She-Hulk so they would own the rights to any such character. The character's comic-book origins turned out to be similar to the plan in the tv show. The blood transfusion is still the reason for her mutation, but she is Dr. Banner's cousin rather than his sister. Furthermore, the character was established to have a milder version of her cousin's Hulk condition since she keeps her personality, albeit less inhibited, and her intelligence and continues to work as an attorney in her Hulk form.In 1989, it was rumored that She-Hulk would appear and co-star in the TV film The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989), but it did not happen. Around that time, a TV series about the character was planned for ABC starring Mitzi Kapture (5' 4"/1,63 m) and volleyball champ Gabrielle Reece (6' 3"/1,91 m) as She-Hulk. It would have been a direct sequel to the TV series, The Incredible Hulk (1977). But the project was officially declared dead in 1991 because they couldn't find the right actress to play her alter-ego Jennifer Walters. Eventually, a live-action film about She-Hulk was being developed in the early 1990s. Larry Cohen was set to write and direct the film, while Brigitte Nielsen ended up being cast as Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk. Although Nielsen posed for photos dressed as the character, the film was scrapped and never happened.Gillian Jacobs, Betty Gilpin, Zoe Chao, and Alison Brie were considered for the role of Jennifer Walters before the casting of Tatiana Maslany. Brie was originally considered the "archetype" for the character during the casting process.The second MCU project to acknowledge the events of The Incredible Hulk (2008) after Bruce Banner quoting "I broke Harlem" in The Avengers (2012). Although William Hurt reprises his role of Thaddeus Ross in Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Black Widow (2021), he never acknowledged the events of that film.In the trailer for She-Hulk, when Jennifer Walters is told by a colleague that she could be an Avenger, Walters replies that is something for billionaires, narcissists and, for some reason, adult orphans. The category of adult Marvel orphans includes Spider-Man, Magneto, DeadPool, Rocket Raccoon, Gamorra, Star Lord, Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, Steve Rogers, The Winter Soldier, The Falcon, Natasha Romanov (forcefully removed from her parents), and Tony Stark, who was orphaned by the Winter Soldier.The main setting of the show is Los Angeles, which was the main setting for the first She-Hulk comic series, "The Savage She-Hulk".In November 2019, Feige stated that after She-Hulk is introduced in the series, the character will cross over to the MCU films.It is the last television series of Phase Four in the MCU.It was revealed that Marvel Studios was working on a Hulk/She-Hulk team-up series for Disney+ and according to the original report, Mark Ruffalo would reprise his role of Bruce Banner/Hulk, as his character would pass the baton to She-Hulk during the series.This will be the first time since The Incredible Hulk (2008) where Emil Blonsky/Abomination (Tim Roth) is featured as a full character in an MCU project. Roth previously made a brief appearance as Abomination in the film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021). Prior to that he was mentioned in an episode of 'Agents of SHIELD.'During an interview with the Sudbury Star on Oct. 15, 2020, Tatiana Maslany initially denied rumors that she's playing She-Hulk. Two months later, she officially confirmed on Twitter that she will be playing the part.In Feb. 2020 it was rumored Marvel Studios was looking for an "Alison Brie" type for the titular role of Jennifer Walters in their Disney+ series. Several fans of Brie's started asking, "Why not cast Brie, herself?" which started rumors that she may be up for the role, though she wasn't.According to former Ms. Olympia and fitness personality, Corinna Everson, she and Oliver Stone discussed shooting what she called an "animated live action" She-Hulk TV series with her as She-Hulk back in the early '90s. They met with Stan Lee and he was 100% onboard. She said it was never produced because Stone was too busy shooting movies.Nikki Ramos, played by Ginger Gonzaga, is an original character created for the series.In June 2021, actor Lou Ferrigno, who played the first live-action Hulk in the TV series The Incredible Hulk (1977) by wearing green make up on his exposed skin, said he believes that Disney+'s upcoming She-Hulk should not have too much CGI. In an interview with TooFab, Ferrigno said he liked the idea of She-Hulk getting a TV show but explained how CGI often overshadows storytelling. He said "the more authentic, organic the character can be, the more believable." He didn't specify if he meant an actress should play She-Hulk in green make up rather than creating a CGI character or if he meant using too much CGI in general.This show was inspired by the 2004 She-Hulk comics which were written by Dan Slott.During a meeting with the executives and the showrunners, director Kat Coiro suggested Patty Guggenheim, with whom she had worked before in other projects, for the part of Madisynn. Although they were not familiar with her, they agreed to invite her to an audition. Guggenheim showed up, and improvised a scene, with her cat, and the executives and showrunners loved her performance so much that she landed the part on the spot.Tatiana Maslany tweeted images of Thermos products showing her as the She-Hulk character in March 2022. It was the first reveal of the character.The first MCU TV series to show a sex scene.Jameela Jamil had previously played Wonder Woman in DC League of Super-Pets (2022). She-Hulk and Wonder Woman had previously met each other and teamed up in the DC-Marvel comic crossover "JLA/Avengers".This is Jameela Jamil's fifth comic-book feature, after having appeared in DuckTales (2017), Harley Quinn: Bachelorette (2020), Marry Me (2022) and DC League of Super-Pets (2022).The character Madisynn, who appeared in the episode She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Is This Not Real Magic? (2022), became so popular that a cult following developed around her immediately. Contrary to fan's expectations, she only appeared in no other episodes. According to writer and producer Jessica Gao, Patty Guggenheim was cast in the role after the series has already been written. She also said that had she known that Madisynn would become so popular, and that Guggenheim would play her, she would've definitely been featured in more episodes.This is the third TV attorney role for Renée Elise Goldsberry, having played Geneva Pine in both The Good Wife (2009) and its spin-off series The Good Fight (2017), as well as defense attorney Evangeline Williamson on daytime drama One Life To Live.The second Marvel TV series where the protagonist is a lawyer. The first series was Daredevil (2015). Actor Charlie Cox will reprise that role in this series.

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