The Incredible Hulk

TIH Part 1: Flight Edward Norton First Draft 05-13-07 We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an Abomination, we shall find a God... And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world. Joseph Campbell BLACK: THE SOUND OF COLD WIND EXT. DECK OF AN ICE-BREAKING TUG BOAT - ARCTIC SEA - DAY A battered old rescue tug churns north through broken pack ice. A MAN stands in the prow staring at the world of ice. A wasteland. He signals up to CAPTAIN. The boat slows to a halt. The man shoulders a small pack. He climbs over onto a ladder and descends onto the frozen edge of the pack ice. He turns his back on the boat and starts walking toward the distant shore. The CAPTAIN stares at the receding figure, expressionless. He pushes the throttle forward and the boat moves on. EXT. GLACIER EDGE - DAY Small in the frame the man trudges resolute toward nothing. The wind starting to whip up. He climbs through the maze of ice and rock to reach the plateau of the glacier. He stops and shrugs off the pack, roots around and takes something out, we can't see what. He unzips the parka and puts the object in his waist and zips up and sets off again. Incomprehensibly he leaves the pack behind. EXT. PLATEAU OF THE GLACIER - DAY The man has been walking a long time. He stops and looks around. Ice. Mountains behind. The green-black of the sea out in front. Not a human sign, no life at all. Except...