The last time I heard about a “She-Hulk” movie was in the late 80s, and back then, they wanted Brigitte Nielsen to don the green gunk [she’s probably been showered in worse goo]. Thankfully, that little beast – a film planned to be the launch pad for a series on CBS - never came to fruition (after the botch-job of 1989’s “The Punisher”, I think Marvel decided to hang onto their characters for a while longer) and Ms Nielsen returned to sticking bananas up Eddie Murphy’s tail-pipe. Or something.

Now, according to IESB, Bruce Banner’s cousin is a tad better looking – and might be hitting screens sooner rather than later.

“Ghost Rider” star Nicolas Cage tells the site that he’s trying to get a “She-Hulk” movie off the ground with Marvel, and wants Eva Mendes – his co-star in “Rider” – to play Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk.

Jennifer Walters is the cousin of Bruce Banner (Hulk) and is a small and somewhat shy daughter of Los Angeles County Sheriff Morris Walters. Agents of Nicholas Trask, a crime boss who had crossed paths with her father, shot and seriously wounded her on a day that Bruce Banner happened to be in town for a visit. Since no donors of her blood type were available, Banner provided blood for a transfusion; his radioactive blood transformed Jennifer into the green-skinned She-Hulk.

If Cage has as much sway as he seems to, then Eva Mendes will soon be enduring eight-hours-a-day of make-up.