1 | !! The 2003 film |
2 | |
3 | * AwesomeDearBoy: |
4 | ** Creator/SamElliott accepted the role of General Ross without reading the script, simply from being excited to work with Creator/AngLee. |
5 | ** Creator/NickNolte decided to join because he considered it to be about a Greek tragedy. |
6 | * DeletedScene: |
7 | ** A girl named Alice teases Bruce in their school lab by pretending to put the moves on him. Bruce—uncomfortable and confused by Alice's advances—trips and falls over a stool. Then a group of students—some of them friends of Alice—appear and mock Bruce, with Alice joining them. Bringing himself back up, a convulsing and enraged Bruce accidentally knocks down a Bunsen burner and a test tube filled with alcohol that catches fire. While the others flee, Bruce stays behind as his body shakes. |
8 | ** Betty and Bruce show a presentation on the failed nanomed test, explaining the technology. |
9 | ** Bruce calls Betty from the hospital, and they briefly discuss her dream. |
10 | ** Bruce informs a security guard (Lou Ferrigno's cameo) about seeing Lily in the lab building. |
11 | ** After meeting David Banner, Betty returns home to discover [=MPs=] sent by her father, seizing everything connected to the lab and one parked across the street for her protection. |
12 | * DescendedCreator: Ang Lee did the motion capture and voice for the Hulk. |
13 | * DisownedAdaptation: Creator/StanLee didn't like Ang Lee's interpretation, mainly because he thought this movie's version of the Hulk was "too big." |
14 | * DVDCommentary: By Ang Lee. |
15 | * DyeingForYourArt: Creator/NickNolte had his hair grown wildly for this movie when he was arrested on drunk driving charges and photographed for his now-infamous mug shot. |
16 | * ExecutiveMeddling: Mychael Danna, Ang Lee's longtime composer, wrote the initial score; unfortunately, Universal felt that the score was non-traditional, so their film music president, Kathy Nelson, asked Music/DannyElfman to rewrite the entire score. |
17 | * FakeAmerican: Melbourne-born Creator/EricBana as the Californian Bruce Banner. |
18 | * HeyItsThatPlace: Betty's house also appeared in ''Film/ToKillAMockingbird''. |
19 | * ImageLinks: |
20 | ** ChewingTheScenery |
21 | * InMemoriam: A dedication to Erik Grieve, a visual effects artist who worked on the film, appears in the end titles. |
22 | * LifeImitatesArt: Over a decade since the film came out, nanomeds are real with the right technology. |
23 | * MissingTrailerScene: The 2002 teaser is entirely original footage. |
24 | * PromotedFanboy: Eric Bana decided to join because he is a Hulk fan, like Sam Elliott and Nick Nolte. |
25 | * SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The film was in development for 12 years, sufficient time for CGI to become sophisticated enough to render the visual effects needed. |
26 | * StillbornFranchise: As the quote atop that trope's page shows, they had to follow this with a reboot. However, a video game continued the movie's events and was [[EvenBetterSequel better received than the film.]] There's also a 2004 limited series comic that occurred after the game. |
27 | * ThoseTwoActors: Creator/JenniferConnelly and Nick Nolte previously collaborated in ''Film/MulhollandFalls''. |
28 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Hulk}} See here]] |
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30 | !! The 2003 tie-in game |
31 | * CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/EricBana voiced Bruce Banner in the game. |
32 | * HeAlsoDid: [[http://graigrobertson.com/ Graig Robertson]], the game's composer, also provided voice samples for the Hulk himself and also composed music for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioStrikers'' and ''Jackie Chan's Stuntmaster'' |
33 | * RealLifeRelative: Creator/PaulDobson and Creator/MichaelDobson voice two brothers. |
34 | * RoleReprise: Creator/MichaelDonovan appears in the role as the unlockable Grey Hulk, having previously played the character in [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1996 the 1996 animated series]]. |
35 | * SequelInAnotherMedium: Even though the game came out a month before the film, it continued its events. It's also the only direct follow-up to the film's story since whatever planned film sequels were scrapped for a ContinuityReboot in ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008''. |
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