Oscar-nominated actor Tim Roth (Rob Roy, Planet of the Apes) will take on Marvel’s mean, green superhero as the main villain in the upcoming live-action/CG feature The Incredible Hulk, reports Daily Variety. The pic is slated to begin principal photography in Toronto this summer and will be released by Universal Pictures on June 13, 2008.

Roth’s character, a KGB agent named Emil Blonsky, will expose himself to the same gamma rays that turned Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) into the Hulk. Getting an extra dose of the green stuff, Blonsky will become Abomination, a monster larger and stronger than Hulk, but will be unable to return to human form. Blaming Banner for his malady, Abomination sets out to destroy him and his muscle-bound alter-ego.

Liv Tyler, best known for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, recently signed on to play Banner’s love interest, Betty Ross, in Marvel’s second attempt to make a flagpole film franchise of the comic book property created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Louis Leterrier (The Transporter 2) is directing from a script by Zak Penn, who wrote X-Men: The Last Stand and Universal’s upcoming video-game adaptation Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run. He’s also attached to script Marvel’s planned feature based on its Avengers comics.

Self-financed by Marvel, The Incredible Hulk is being produced by former Marvel Ent. CEO Avi Arad, Gale Anne Hurd and Marvel’s Feige. Stan Lee is an exec producer, along with Arad, Jim Van Wyck and David Maisel. The movie is currently slated to arrive in theaters a little over a month after the May 2 bow of Marvel Studios’ Iron Man, which stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard and Jeff Bridges.