And what Chris Nolan had done with Batman was going down a path that I aligned with: long, dark and serious.
I laid out a two-film thing: The origin and then the idea of Hulk as the conscious dreamer, the guy who can handle the trip.
The movie did only okay at the box office, spawned zero sequels, and when the Hulk reappeared in The Avengers four years later, he was played by Mark Ruffalo.
If there was ever a thing that I thought had that in it, it was the Hulk.