Line #25 Trivia/Hulk


1	!! The 2003 film
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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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