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Marvel’s mobile gacha game, Contest of Champions, is giving away science unit She-Hulk to all new and existing players who log in between today and Septmber 28. The freebie is part of a celebration of She-Hulk: Attourney At Law, which premieres its first episode on August 18 on Disney+.
She-Hulk is just one of over 200 champions currently available in the mobile hero collector, which is available on iOS and Android. While the new Disney+ series marks the character’s debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, She-Hulk has been part of Contest of Champions since 2016, her in-game appearance aligning more with the comic book version than Tatiana Maslany’s take on the character.
For long-term Contest of Champions players who’ve already added She-Hulk to their collections, the most recent Champions to be added to the game are Galactus variant Galan, and speedster Quicksilver, who was chosen by player vote to be added to the roster.
Ahead of its impending premiere on Disney+, She Hulk head writer Jessica Gao has revealed more about what parts of the show have changed in post, and what elements have remained since its conception. In an interview with Variety, Gao talks budget constraints, expensive CGI, and how to pace the introduction of a new hero.
In writing the show, Gao admits that she didn’t have as much understanding as she might have liked around the logistics of filming such a CGI-heavy show. “When we were writing the show, I don’t think anybody really knew exactly how we were going to do this CGI character,” she explains. “From the beginning, I asked Kevin [Feige], ‘How much can we do? How cost-conscious should I be? Give me some guidelines.’ And he said, ‘If I’m gonna watch a show called She-Hulk, I want to see She-Hulk.’ That kind of was the carte blanche to just write it however I wanted.”
When budget issues did come to the fore, it required cutting more scenes involving She-Hulk. “Once we got into pre-production and production itself, once somebody had to sit down and start figuring out the cost of everything, it was like every week, I was told, ‘Can you cut more She-Hulk scenes? Can you change more She-Hulk scenes to Jen? Can she be Jen in more scenes?'” Gao explains. “Even in post, you know, we had to cut a lot of shots by virtue just because it was She-Hulk.”
In his time with the MCU, there seem to be two things we can say for sure about Mark Ruffalo: he likes playing the Hulk, and he often opens his mouth when he shouldn’t when it comes to Marvel Studios secrets. Now, Ruffalo is hinting that his character’s cousin She-Hulk might figure into future Avengers movies, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
While bantering with She-Hulk herself, actor Tatiana Maslany, at the premiere for She-Hulk: Attorney-at-Law, Ruffalo spilled beans that surprised even Maslany herself.
Maslany asked Ruffalo to “give [her] one year” of being the central Hulk, to which Ruffalo replied, “All right, you can have a year. No, she’s in now, there’s not going to be another Avengers without her.”
She-Hulk comic book fans might be a little confused later this week when the character finally makes her debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the comics, the character’s origin happens when Jennifer Walters, successful lawyer and cousin to Bruce Banner, is shot in a mob hit. Her cousin tries to save her but…
When the She-Hulk: Attorney at Law trailer debuted at San Diego Comic-Con, fans got quite the shock with the reveal that Charlie Cox is reprising his role as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in the series. This is incredibly exciting–especially when you consider the upcoming standalone series for the character on Disney+. However, Cox’s portrayal of Daredevil so far has been decidedly serious and often dark. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, on the other hand, is a half-hour sitcom about a lawyer who just happens to turn into a big, green rage monster. How, exactly, do those two pieces fit together?
According to showrunner Jessica Gao, it wasn’t as hard as you might think. “It’s so fun to take these characters that you’ve only seen in these kinds of very serious dramatic roles and situations and [bring] them into our show where they get to kind of take a break from all that because in our show the universe isn’t going to end,” she told GameSpot. “It’s slice of life. It’s daily life. It’s like a chill Tuesday. They don’t have to be so heightened because of that. They get to live a regular life, and we all get together to explore a different side of them when they’re not in these heightened situations.”
Not surprisingly, Cox had a pretty good understanding of how to fit his version of Daredevil into the show. “Charlie is so wonderful,” Gao continued. “He has such reverence for the character that he’s played, and he loves being Daredevil so much. He was definitely part of the conversation. And I don’t think we did anything that made him feel like we were betraying the character.”
Throughout the many trailers and promos for Marvel’s She-Hulk, two things have been made clear: Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) is a lawyer suddenly tasked with handling superhuman-related cases, and she’s not terribly good at having a dating life. San Diego Comic-Con say the attorney-at-law open a hotline for…
“In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the people are protected by two separate yet equally important groups: The heroes who save them, and the attorneys who clean up their collateral damage. But only one can be both. This is her story.”
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The latest trailer for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law adds an MCU spin to the iconic Law & Order opening, reminding us that this She-Hulk is, first and foremost, a lawyer show. Yes, Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) is a Hulk. But more importantly, she’s a lawyer! And she’s working on cases involving superpowered clients like Emil Blonsky, aka the Abomination, (Tim Roth) and Sorcerer Supreme Wong (Benedict Wong). Think of it less like WandaVision and more like Ally McBeal and The Practice.
She-Hulk hits Disney+ Aug. 18.