Hulk and Then They Call Us Monster Again

2003 film directed by Ang Lee

Hulk
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Directed by	Ang Lee
Screenplay by	James Schamus Michael French republic John Turman
Story by	James Schamus
Based on	Blob by Stan Lee Jack Kirby
Produced by	Avi Arad Larry Franco Gale Anne Hurd James Schamus
Starring	Eric Bana Jennifer Connelly Sam Elliott Josh Lucas Nick Nolte
Cinematography	Frederick Elmes
Edited past	Tim Squyres
Music past	Danny Elfman
Production companies	Universal Pictures[one] [two] Curiosity Studios[2] Valhalla Motion Pictures[2] Adept Machine[2]
Distributed by	Universal Pictures[i]
Release appointment	June 20, 2003 (2003-06-20)
Running fourth dimension	138 minutes[three]
Country	United states of america[1]
Language	English
Budget	$137 million[4]
Box function	$245.4 meg[4]

Hulk (also known as The Hulk ) is a 2003 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the aforementioned name, directed by Ang Lee and written by James Schamus, Michael France, and John Turman from a story by Schamus. Eric Bana stars as Bruce Banner/Blob, alongside Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas, and Nick Nolte. The moving-picture show explores Bruce Banner's origins. After a lab accident involving gamma radiation, he transforms into a behemothic, green-skinned creature known equally the "Hulk" whenever stressed or emotionally provoked. The United States armed forces pursues him, and he clashes with his biological father, who has dark plans for his son.

Evolution for the film started as far back as 1990. At one betoken, Joe Johnston and then Jonathan Hensleigh were to direct the flick. Hensleigh, John Turman, Michael French republic, Zak Penn (who would later write The Incredible Hulk), J. J. Abrams, Michael Tolkin, David Hayter, Scott Alexander, and Larry Karaszewski wrote more scripts earlier Ang Lee and James Schamus' involvement. From March to Baronial 2002, Hulk was primarily shot in California, mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The film was released on June twenty, 2003, and it grossed $245 1000000 worldwide, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of 2003. Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus calls it an ambitious and stylish film that focuses too much on dialogue at the cost of activeness. A planned sequel was repurposed every bit a reboot titled The Incredible Hulk, and released on June 13, 2008, equally the second flick in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Plot [edit]

David Banner is a genetics researcher for the government trying to improve human Deoxyribonucleic acid; his supervisor, General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, forbids human being experimentation, so David experiments on himself. His married woman, Edith, soon gives birth to their son, Bruce Banner. David realizes Bruce inherited his mutant DNA and attempts to find a cure. Subsequently discovering his unsafe experiments, Ross shuts down David'due south research; David rigs Desert Base of operations's gamma reactor to explode every bit revenge. Believing he's unsafe, David tries to kill Bruce just accidentally murders Edith when she gets between them; the trauma causes Bruce to suppress his early on babyhood memories. Ross arrests and sends David to a mental hospital and puts the four-year-old Bruce into foster care. Mrs. Krenzler adopts him, and Bruce assumes the surname, growing up believing his nascency parents are expressionless.

Thirty years afterwards, Bruce is a bright scientist working at the Berkeley Lab with his girlfriend and Ross's estranged girl, Betty Ross. Representing the private research company Atheon, the shady Glenn Talbot becomes interested in the scientists' nanomeds inquiry to create regenerating soldiers for the military-industrial complex. David reappears, working equally a janitor in the lab building to infiltrate Bruce's life. Ross investigates and becomes concerned for Betty's safety around Bruce.

Bruce saves his and Betty'south colleague Harper from an accident with a malfunctioning gammasphere. Waking in a hospital bed, Bruce tells Betty he feels better than always, merely Betty tin't fathom his survival since the nanomeds killed everything else; unknown to them, the radiation merged with Bruce's altered Deoxyribonucleic acid. David meets him after hours, revealing their relationship and hinting at Bruce's mutation. He subsequently uses samples of Bruce's Dna for animal experimentation. Bruce's increasing rage from the tensions mounting around him activates his gamma-radiated DNA; he becomes the Blob and destroys the lab. Betty finds Bruce unconscious in his habitation the post-obit morning, barely remembering last night. Ross arrives later to question Bruce earlier Betty locates David to investigate him. Afterwards hours of interrogation, Ross seizes the lab and places Bruce under house arrest. David calls Bruce that night, revealing he mutated his three dogs and sicced them on Betty, enraging him. And then Talbot attacks Bruce most the lab, so Bruce transforms and injures him and Ross's MPs. The Hulk finds Betty at her woods cabin, rescues her from the dogs, and changes back.

Betty calls Ross the following mean solar day; the army sedates and takes Bruce to Desert Base. Deeming him damned to follow in David's footsteps, Ross doubts helping Bruce despite attributable him Betty's life, but Betty persuades Ross to let her attempt. David subjects himself to the nanomeds and gammasphere, becoming able to meld with and absorb the properties of annihilation he touches. Talbot wrestles control from Ross, forcing Betty to return home. Seeking to profit from the Hulk's power, Talbot fails to provoke Bruce and puts him in an isolation tank. David confronts Betty at her house, offering to surrender himself and asking to speak to Bruce "ane last fourth dimension" in exchange. Talbot induces a nightmare from Bruce's repressed memories and triggers a transformation. Trapping the Hulk in sticky cream, Talbot tries taking a sample of him, just the Hulk'south rage enlarges him, and he breaks free. Talbot fires an explosive round, simply it rebounds into a back wall and explodes, and Ross resumes command upon Talbot'south death. The Hulk escapes the base, battles the army in the desert, and leaps to San Francisco to find Betty. She convinces Ross to accept her to the Blob, returning Bruce to normal.

Bruce and David talk at a base in the city while Ross watches, threatening to incinerate them. David has descended into megalomania, wanting Bruce's power to destroy his enemies. Subsequently Bruce refuses, David bites into a high-voltage cable when Ross powers information technology and absorbs the energy, mutating into a powerful electrical animal. Bruce becomes the Hulk and fights and overpowers him; they are presumed dead after Ross orders a Gamma Charge Flop to end the boxing. A year later, Ross has Betty under constant surveillance, and many Hulk sightings still occur since Bruce finds exile in the Amazon Rainforest equally a medical military camp doctor.

Bandage [edit]

• Eric Bana equally Bruce Imprint / Hulk:
  A gamma radiation research scientist. After exposure to elevated gamma radiations levels, he becomes an enormous green humanoid monster when enraged or agitated. He is legally known every bit "Bruce Krenzler" throughout the film. Bana was bandage in October 2001, signing for an additional two sequels.^[5] Ang Lee felt obliged to cast Bana upon seeing Chopper and first approached the player in July 2001.^{[half dozen]} Other actors heavily pursued the role. Bana was besides in heavy contention for Ghost Passenger but lost out to Nicolas Cage.^[5] Bana explained, "I was obsessed with the TV show. I was never a huge comic volume reader when I was a child but was completely obsessed with the boob tube show."^[7] It was widely reported Billy Crudup turned down the part. Johnny Depp and Steve Buscemi were reportedly under consideration for the atomic number 82.^[8] David Duchovny and Jeff Goldblum auditioned for the part.^[9] Edward Norton, who went on to play Bruce in The Incredible Blob, expressed interest in the role but turned information technology down as he was disappointed with the script.^{[x] [eleven]} Tom Cruise was also offered the role only he turned it downward.^[nine]
  • Michael and David Kronenberg as Young Bruce Imprint
  • Mike Erwin as Teenage Bruce Banner
  • Ang Lee provided motion capture for the Hulk.^[6]
• Jennifer Connelly every bit Betty Ross:
  Bruce's ex-girlfriend and colleague, General Ross'southward estranged girl, and possibly the merely 1 who can make the Hulk revert into Bruce. Director Ang Lee attracted Connelly to the role. "He's not talking about a guy running effectually in greenish tights and a glossy fun-filled picture show for kids. He's talking along the lines of tragedy and psychodrama. I observe it interesting, the green monster of rage and greed, jealousy and fear in all of us."^[12]
  • Rhiannon Leigh Wryn equally Young Betty Ross
• Sam Elliott as Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross:
  A 4-star general and Betty'due south estranged father. Ross was responsible for prohibiting David Banner from his lab work after learning of his dangerous experiments. Elliot felt his performance was similar to his portrayal of Basil L. Plumley in We Were Soldiers.^[xiii] Elliott accepted the role without reading the script, being only as well excited to work with Ang Lee. Elliot also researched Hulk comic books for the part.^[xiv]
  • Todd Tesen as Immature Thaddeus Ross
• Josh Lucas as Glenn Talbot:
  A ruthless and arrogant onetime soldier who has a history with Betty. He offers Bruce and Betty a chance to piece of work for him at the enquiry company Atheon and make cocky-healing super soldiers.
• Nick Nolte every bit David Banner:
  Bruce'due south mentally unstable biological male parent who'south also a genetics research scientist. He spent several years locked away for causing a gamma reactor explosion and accidentally killing his married woman, Edith. David eventually gains absorbing powers, reminiscent of the comic book graphic symbol Absorbing Homo, which first appeared in the film's early scripts. At one point, he also becomes a towering creature composed of electricity, reminiscent of Zzzax, one of the Hulk's enemies in the comic series.^[15] Nolte agreed to participate in the film when Lee described the projection equally a "Greek tragedy."^{[sixteen] [17]}
  • Paul Kersey as Young David Imprint
• Cara Buono as Edith Banner:
  Bruce'south biological mother, whom he cannot think. She is heard just mostly appears in Bruce's nightmares.
• Celia Weston as Mrs. Krenzler:
  Bruce'south adoptive mother, who cared for him afterwards Edith'southward death and David'due south incarceration.
• Kevin Rankin as Harper:
  Bruce'due south colleague, whom he saved from the gamma radiation.

Blob co-creator/executive producer Stan Lee and old Hulk actor Lou Ferrigno made cameo appearances every bit security guards. Johnny Kastl and Daniel Dae Kim take modest roles as soldiers.

Production [edit]

Development [edit]

Jonathan Hensleigh [edit]

Producers Avi Arad and Gale Anne Hurd began developing Hulk in 1990,^[18] the same year the final TV movie based on the 1970s TV serial aired. They set the property upward at Universal Pictures in 1992.^[19] Michael France and Stan Lee were invited into Universal's offices in 1993, with France writing the script. Universal's concept was to have the Blob battle terrorists, an idea French republic disliked. John Turman, a Hulk comic volume fan, was brought to write the script in 1994, getting Lee's approval. Heavily influenced past the Tales to Amaze issues, Turman wrote ten drafts and pitted the Blob against General Ross and the military and ^[xx] the Leader, as well including Rick Jones and the atomic explosion origin from the comics^[21] forth with Brian Banner as the explanation for Bruce's inner acrimony.^[22] Universal had mixed feelings over Turman's script, but future screenwriters would use many elements.^{[20] [23]}

Hurd brought her husband Jonathan Hensleigh as co-producer the following year, and Universal hired Industrial Low-cal & Magic to create the Hulk with calculator-generated imagery. Universal was courting France once more to write the screenplay^[8] but changed their minds when Joe Johnston became the director in April 1997.^[24] The studio wanted Hensleigh to rewrite the script due to his successful results on Johnston's Jumanji. Universal fired France earlier he wrote a single page but gave him a buy-off.^[8] Johnston dropped out of directing in July 1997 in favor of October Heaven, and Hensleigh convinced Universal to make the Hulk his directing debut. Universal brought Turman back a 2nd fourth dimension to write two more drafts. Zak Penn then rewrote it.^{[eight] [25]} His script featured a fight between the Hulk and a school of sharks,^[21] and ii scenes he eventually used for the 2008 film: Banner realizing he cannot accept sex and triggering a transformation by falling out of a helicopter.^[26] Hensleigh rewrote from scratch, coming upward with a brand new storyline^[viii] featuring Bruce Imprint, who, before the blow which turns him into The Hulk, experiments with gamma-irradiated insect Deoxyribonucleic acid on three convicts, transforming them into "insect men"^[27] that cause havoc.^{[8] [28]}

Concept art for Jonathan Hensleigh's script

Filming was to start in December 1997 in Arizona for a summer 1999 release appointment, but filming was pushed dorsum for four months.^{[28] [29]} Hensleigh later on rewrote the script with J. J. Abrams. Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski were too brought on board to rewrite, with Hensleigh still attached as director.^[8] In October 1997,^{[thirty] [31] [32]} Hulk had entered pre-production with the cosmos of prosthetic makeup and reckoner animation already underway. Gregory Sporleder was cast as "Novak", Banner's archenemy, while Lynn "Red" Williams was cast every bit a convict who transforms into a combination of man, ant, and beetle.^[29] In March 1998, Universal put Hulk on hiatus due to its escalating $100 meg upkeep and worries of Hensleigh directing his first film. $xx one thousand thousand was already spent on script development, reckoner blitheness, and prosthetics work. Hensleigh immediately went to rewrite the script to lower the budget.^[33]

Michael France [edit]

Hensleigh found the rewriting procedure as well complicated and dropped out, feeling he "wasted nine months in pre-production".^[34] It took some other 8 months for France to convince Universal and the producers to let him endeavour to write a script for the third time. France claimed, "Someone within the Universal bureaucracy wasn't certain if this was a science fiction run a risk, or a comedy, and I kept getting directions to write both. I think that at some point when I wasn't in the room, there may have been discussions almost turning it into a Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler movie."^[8] French republic was writing the script on the fast track from July—September 1999. Filming for Hulk was to showtime in Apr 2000.^{[35] [36]}

France stated his vision of the film was dissimilar from the other drafts, which based Bruce Imprint on his "amiable, nerdy genius" incarnation in the 1960s. France cited inspiration from the 1980s Hulk stories, which introduced Brian Banner, Bruce'south abusive father who killed his mother. His script had Banner trying to create cells with regenerative capabilities to convince himself that he is not similar his father.^[8] However, he has anger management problems before the Blob is built-in, which makes everything worse. The "Don't make me aroused..." line from the TV series became the dialogue that Imprint'due south father would say before chirapsia his son.^[37] Elements such as the "Gammasphere," Bruce and Betty's tragic romance, and the black ops made it to the final film. France turned in his final drafts in late 1999 – January 2000.^[8]

Ang Lee [edit]

Michael Tolkin and David Hayter rewrote the script later, despite the producers' positive response over France's script. Tolkin was brought in Jan 2000, while Universal brought Hayter in September of that year. Hayter's typhoon featured The Leader, Zzzax, and the Arresting Man as the villains, who are depicted as Imprint's colleagues and go caught in the same blow that creates the Hulk.^{[eight] [fifteen] [38]} Director Ang Lee and his producing partner James Schamus became involved with the film on Jan 20, 2001.^[39] Lee was dissatisfied with Hayter'south script and commissioned Schamus for a rewrite, merging Imprint's father with the Absorbing Man.^{[8] [xl]} Lee cited influences from Male monarch Kong, Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, Beauty and the Animal, Faust, and Greek mythology to translate the story.^[41] Schamus said he had constitute the storyline that introduced Brian Banner, allowing Lee to write a drama that once more explored father-son themes.^[42]

Schamus was still rewriting the script in Oct 2001.^[5] In early 2002, as filming was underway, Michael France read all the scripts for the Writers Guild of America to make up one's mind who would go final credit. France criticized Schamus and Hayter for challenge they were aiming to make Imprint a more than in-depth grapheme, saddened they had denigrated his and Turman'south piece of work in interviews. Schamus elected to get solo credit. France felt, "James Schamus did a significant amount of piece of work on the screenplay. For example, he brought in the Hulk dogs from the comics and he made the decision to use Imprint'due south father as a existent character in the present. Merely he used quite a lot of elements from John Turman'south scripts and quite a lot from mine, and that'southward why we were credited."^{[viii] [43] [44]} France, Turman, and Schamus received final credit. In Dec 2001, a theatrical release appointment for June 20, 2003, was announced, with the film's championship as The Hulk.^[45]

Filming [edit]

Filming began on March 18, 2002, in Arizona and moved on Apr nineteen to the San Francisco Bay Area. Locations included Advanced Calorie-free Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oakland, Treasure Island military base, and the sequoia forests of Porterville, before several weeks in the Utah and California deserts. The penultimate battle scene between Hulk and his begetter used the existent Pear Lake in Sequoia National Park as a backdrop. Filming and then moved to the Universal backlot in Los Angeles, using Stage 12 for the water tank scene, earlier finishing in the kickoff calendar week of August. Filming of Blob constituted hiring 3,000 local workers, generating over $10 million into the local economy.^{[46] [47] [48] [49]} Mychael Danna, who previously collaborated with Lee on Ride with the Devil and The Ice Tempest, was set to compose the picture show score earlier dropping out. Danny Elfman was then hired.^[50]

Eric Bana commented that the shoot was "Ridiculously serious... a silent prepare, morbid in a lot of ways." Lee told him that he was shooting a Greek tragedy: he would be making a "whole other moving-picture show" most the Hulk at Industrial Light & Magic. An example of Lee's arthouse approach to the film was taking Bana to scout a bare-knuckle boxing lucifer. Bana would afterwards disfavorably reflect on his experience making the moving-picture show every bit the majority of the time he was working indoors while the rest of the bandage interacted with a CGI recreation of the Hulk, somewhat limiting his screen time.^{[42] [51]} Computer animation supervisor Dennis Muren was on the set every day.^[18] 1 of the many visual images in the film that presented an acting challenge for Bana was Lee'southward split up-screen technique to mimic comic book folio panels cinematically. This technique required many more than takes of individual scenes than usual.^[52] Muren and other ILM animators used previous engineering science from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (for the Dobby graphic symbol) to create the Hulk with computer-generated imagery. Boosted software used included PowerAnimator, Softimage Artistic Environment, Softimage XSI, and Pixar'southward RenderMan. ILM started computer animation work in 2001 and completed it in May 2003, just one month earlier the film'southward release.^[53] Lee provided some motility capture work in mail service-production.^[6] Gary Rydstrom handled sound design at Skywalker Sound.^{[54] [55]}

Music [edit]

Hulk: Original Picture show Soundtrack
Moving picture score by Danny Elfman
Released	June 17, 2003
Genre	Film score
Length	63:41
Label	Decca Records
Marvel Comics flick series soundtrack chronology
X2: Original Move Picture Score (2003) Hulk: Original Motility Picture Soundtrack (2003) The Punisher: The Album (2004)

Danny Elfman equanimous the film score for Hulk later scoring Spider-Man the previous year. Frequent Ang Lee collaborator Mychael Danna was the film'south original composer; all the same, studio executives rejected Danna'south score for its non-traditional approach, which featured Japanese taiko, African drumming, and Standard arabic singing.^[56] Then Elfman was approached by Universal'southward president of film music, Kathy Nelson. With 37 days to etch over ii hours of music, Elfman agreed out of respect to Lee.^[57] While instructing to retain much of the character of Danna's score, Lee pushed Elfman to write material that didn't sound similar his previous superhero scores.^[58] "They did leave some of my music in the movie," said Danna, "then the Standard arabic singing and some of the drumming is mine. What happened is that they panicked, they brought in Danny and he heard what I've been doing and I judge he liked it."^[59]

A soundtrack album was released on June 17, 2003, past Decca Records.^[sixty] It features the song "Ready Me Free" by Velvet Revolver, which plays during the stop credits.

All tracks are written by Danny Elfman.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Primary Titles"	4:36
ii.	"Prologue"	4:38
3.	"Betty's Dream"	2:xiv
4.	"Bruce'southward Memories"	2:45
five.	"Captured"	iii:41
half-dozen.	"Dad's Visit"	2:xv
seven.	"Hulk Out!"	4:00
8.	"Father Knows All-time"	iii:34
ix.	"...Making Me Aroused"	four:02
10.	"Gentle Giant"	1:02
11.	"Hounds of Hell"	iii:47
12.	"The Truth Revealed"	4:19
thirteen.	"Hulk's Freedom"	2:36
fourteen.	"A Man Again"	vii:48
fifteen.	"The Lake Battle"	4:32
16.	"The Backwash"	0:56
17.	"The Phone Call"	1:34
18.	"End Credits"	i:13
xix.	"Ready Me Free" (performed by Dave Kushner, Duff McKagan, Slash, Matt Sorum, and Scott Weiland)	iv:09
Total length:		one:03:41

Release [edit]

Marketing [edit]

Universal Pictures spent $2.one million to market the moving picture in a thirty-2d television spot during Super Bowl XXXVII on January 26, 2003.^[61] A seventy-2d teaser trailer debuted in theaters with the release of Spider-Homo a year earlier on May 3, 2002.^[62] Just weeks before the pic's release, several workprints leaked on the Internet. The public already criticized the visual and special effects, although it was not the film's final editing cutting.^[63] The moving picture received a novelization written by Hulk comic writer, Peter David.^[64]

Home media [edit]

Hulk was released on VHS and DVD on Oct 28, 2003.^[65] The DVD included behind-the-scenes footage, enhanced viewing options that permit users to dispense a 3-D Hulk model, and cast and crew commentaries.^[66] The motion-picture show earned $61.2 million in DVD sales during 2003.^[67] Hulk was released on Hd DVD format on December 12, 2006, and it was later released on Blu-ray on September 16, 2008.^[68] Hulk was released on Ultra Hard disk Blu-ray on July nine, 2019.^[69]

Reception [edit]

Box role [edit]

Hulk was released on June 20, 2003, earning $62.one million in its opening weekend, which made information technology the 16th highest always opener at the time. Information technology was topped at the box part upon opening, chirapsia out Finding Nemo. Moreover, the film surpassed Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me to score the biggest June opening weekend.^[seventy] With a 2d weekend drop of seventy%, it was the showtime opener above $20 million to drop over 65%.^[71] The motion-picture show grossed $132.2 million in Northward America on a upkeep of $137 million. It made $113.2 million in foreign countries, coming to a worldwide total of $245.4 million.^[4] With a concluding N American gross of $132.2 million, information technology became the largest opener non to earn $150 million.^[72]

Critical response [edit]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Hulk holds a 62% approval rating based on 237 reviews and an average rating of six.two/10. The website's critics' consensus reads, "While Ang Lee's ambitious film earns marks for style and an attempt at dramatic depth, there's ultimately too much talking and non enough smashing."^[73] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the flick a score of 54 out of 100 based on 40 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[74] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an boilerplate grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.^[75]

Roger Ebert gave a positive review, explaining, "Ang Lee is trying to actually deal with the issues in the story of the Hulk, instead of only cutting to dotterel visual effects." Ebert likewise liked how the Blob's movements resembled Rex Kong.^[76] Although Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt Hulk should have been shorter, he heavily praised the activeness sequences, particularly the climax and cliffhanger.^[77] Paul Clinton of CNN believed the cast gave strong performances, but in an otherwise positive review, heavily criticized the estimator-generated imagery, calling the Hulk "a ticked-off version of Shrek".^[78]

Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle considered "the film is more thoughtful and pleasing to the center than any blockbuster in recent memory, but its epic length comes without an epic reward."^[79] Ty Burr of The Boston Globe felt "Jennifer Connelly reprises her stand-past-your-messed-upward-scientist turn from A Beautiful Mind."^[80] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly stated, "a big-budget comic-book accommodation has rarely felt so humorless and intellectually defensive about its own pulpy roots."^[81]

Hulk received retrospective praise from critics for its creative deviation from other superhero films by Curiosity and DC comics, etc. In 2012, Matt Zoller Seitz cited the movie equally one of the few large-budget superhero films that "really departed from formula, in terms of subject matter or tone", writing that the film is "pretty bizarre... in its former-school Freudian psychology, but interesting for that reason".^[82] In Scout Tafoya's 2022 video essay on some other movie directed by Ang Lee, Ride with the Devil, he mentioned Hulk as "Lee's sick-fated simply quietly soulful and deeply sad adaptation of The Incredible Hulk comics".^[83] In 2018, Peter Sobczynski of RogerEbert.com wrote that the motion picture is "a genuinely great example of cinematic pop art that deserves a reappraisal".^[84]

Accolades [edit]

Connelly and Danny Elfman received nominations at the 30th Saturn Awards with All-time Actress and Best Music. The film was nominated for Best Science Fiction Flick but lost out to X2, another movie based on Marvel characters. Dennis Muren, Michael Lantieri, and the special effects crew were nominated for Best Special Effects.^[85] The film is notably the offset to make the Hulk through CGI.

Honour	Category	Nominee	Issue
30th Saturn Awards	Best Science Fiction Film	Hulk	Nominated
	Best Actress	Jennifer Connelly	Nominated
	Best Music	Danny Elfman	Nominated
	Best Special Furnishings	Dennis Muren, Michael Lantieri	Nominated

Future [edit]

Cancelled sequel [edit]

In March 2002, during filming for Hulk, producer Avi Arad targeted a May 2005 theatrical release engagement for a sequel.^[86] Upon the picture'southward release, screenwriter James Schamus started to program a sequel featuring Hulk'south Grey Blob persona and considered using The Leader and the Abomination every bit villains.^[87] Marvel asked for Abomination's inclusion to be an actual threat to Hulk, unlike General Ross.^[88] The project ultimately never got off the ground due to Universal not meeting the borderline to begin filming.

Marvel Cinematic Universe [edit]

In January 2006, Curiosity Studios reacquired the motion-picture show rights to the graphic symbol, and writer Zak Penn began work on a sequel titled The Incredible Hulk.^[89] However, Edward Norton rewrote Penn'due south script after signing on to star, retelling the origin story in flashbacks and revelations, to establish the pic as a reboot; manager Louis Leterrier agreed with this approach.^[90] Leterrier acknowledged that the only remaining similarity betwixt the two films was Bruce hiding in South America.^[91]

Amidst the rumours of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield returning to reprise their roles in Spider-Man: No Fashion Dwelling house which later came out be true, Bana was interviewed by Jake Hamilton to promote his new film The Dry. When asked if he would be willing to reprise his role equally his version of Bruce Banner in a futurity MCU projection aslope Ruffalo's version of the character, Bana replied:

When I went and did that motion-picture show, I mean, that was kind of, like, pre-Marvel universe, right? That universe didn't fifty-fifty really exist. And so, it always only felt like a one time film for me, y'know? That world of, 'Y'all go and do a film and there's going to be sequels and you lot're going to exist doing it for a bit.' That, actually, that framework didn't fifty-fifty exist dorsum so. And so I guess the answer, the short answer, is no, I never felt like it was something I was going to reprise or do once again and I still feel, even after all this time, I yet feel... aye, I tin't see that happening.^[92]

Run into also [edit]

• Hulk (video game)

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• Blob at IMDb
• Blob title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Blob at AllMovie
• Hulk at Box Role Mojo

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_%28film%29

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