Hulk smash!: Eric Bana’s vilified Marvel flop deserved so much better
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIn the summer of 2002, producer and screenwriter James Schamus went to Times Square to see Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. Schamus, a frequent collaborator with director Ang Lee, went for two reasons: to celebrate the star-making moment of Tobey Maguire, with whom Lee and Schamus worked on The Ice Storm; and to “scope out what was going in Marvel-land”. Lee and Schamus were deep into…