Trivia / Hulk

The 2003 film

• Awesome, Dear Boy:
  • Sam Elliott accepted the role of General Ross without reading the script, simply from being excited to work with Ang Lee.
  • Nick Nolte decided to join because he considered it to be about a Greek tragedy.
• Deleted Scene:
  • 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.
  • Betty and Bruce show a presentation on the failed nanomed test, explaining the technology.
  • Bruce calls Betty from the hospital, and they briefly discuss her dream.
  • Bruce informs a security guard (Lou Ferrigno's cameo) about seeing Lily in the lab building.
  • 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.
• Descended Creator: Ang Lee did the motion capture and voice for the Hulk.
• Disowned Adaptation: Stan Lee didn't like Ang Lee's interpretation, mainly because he thought this movie's version of the Hulk was "too big."
• DVD Commentary: By Ang Lee.
• Dyeing for Your Art: Nick Nolte had his hair grown wildly for this movie when he was arrested on drunk driving charges and photographed for his now-infamous mug shot.
• Executive Meddling: 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 Danny Elfman to rewrite the entire score.
• Fake American: Melbourne-born Eric Bana as the Californian Bruce Banner.
• Hey, It's That Place!: Betty's house also appeared in To Kill a Mockingbird.
• Image Links:
  • Chewing the Scenery
• In Memoriam: A dedication to Erik Grieve, a visual effects artist who worked on the film, appears in the end titles.
• Life Imitates Art: Over a decade since the film came out, nanomeds are real with the right technology.
• Missing Trailer Scene: The 2002 teaser is entirely original footage.
• Promoted Fanboy: Eric Bana decided to join because he is a Hulk fan, like Sam Elliott and Nick Nolte.
• Saved from Development Hell: The film was in development for 12 years, sufficient time for CGI to become sophisticated enough to render the visual effects needed.
• Stillborn Franchise: 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 better received than the film. There's also a 2004 limited series comic that occurred after the game.
• Those Two Actors: Jennifer Connelly and Nick Nolte previously collaborated in Mulholland Falls.
• What Could Have Been: See here

The 2003 tie-in game

• Celebrity Voice Actor: Eric Bana voiced Bruce Banner in the game.
• He Also Did: Graig Robertson, the game's composer, also provided voice samples for the Hulk himself and also composed music for Super Mario Strikers and Jackie Chan's Stuntmaster
• Real-Life Relative: Paul Dobson and Michael Dobson voice two brothers.
• Role Reprise: Michael Donovan appears in the role as the unlockable Grey Hulk, having previously played the character in the 1996 animated series.
• Sequel in Another Medium: 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 Continuity Reboot in The Incredible Hulk (2008).

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