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May 3, 2007 —

IGN reports that writer-director Zak Penn is at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this week to promote his new movie "The Grand," but during his visit the man who helped write such films as "X2" and "X3" also proved willing to talk a bit about his various upcoming superhero movies. First off, he acknowledged today that rumors placing the Abomination as the villain in the next "Hulk" film are true...well, sort of.

"On The Hulk, one of the big discussions has been -- God, I hope I don't get in trouble for this -- the villain is going to be this character from the comics, the Abomination, who will not be called the Abomination out loud in the film because it's a silly, silly name," laughs Penn, who wrote the film. "It just is; it's so hard to work in. 'Hey, what should we call that guy?' 'He's an abomination!'"

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