8 People Who Hated Working For Marvel Studios
2. Edward Norton - The Incredible Hulk
Edward Norton has had a reputation as a troublemaker his entire career, so Marvel knew what they were getting into when they hired him to play Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk. Already by that point, Norton had shut American History X director Tony Kaye out of editing and cut the film himself, and clashed with the Writers Guild of America after he claimed he, and not the three screenwriters credited, wrote the film Frida.
Perhaps Marvel expected Norton to have matured by the time he made The Incredible Hulk, but nope - he was just as difficult as ever. After again getting involved in editing a film that wasn't his, Norton disagreed with Marvel over the running time of the film.
Where Norton and director Louis Leterrier (who, god bless him, seems to have just gone along with whatever Norton wanted) asked for a longer cut, Marvel wanted Hulk to come in at under two hours. Marvel won and Norton sulked - apparently, when Bruce Banner gets angry, he doesn't go green, he just refuses to promote his own movie.