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THE INCREDIBLE HULK FAQ
(last update: 6/13/08)

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When will the film hit theaters?

United States
  • June 13th, 2008

International
  • UK - June 13, 2008
  • Australia, Greece, Hong Kong, S. Korea, etc - June 12th, 2008
  • Brazil, Mexico, Finland, etc - June 13th, 2008
  • Egypt, Italy - June 18th, 2008
  • Argentina, Netherlands - June 19th, 2008
  • Iceland, Spain - June 20th, 2008
  • Belgium - June 25th, 2008
  • Denmark - June 27th, 2008
  • Switzerland - July 2nd, 2008
  • Israel - July 3rd, 2008
  • Germany - July 10th, 2008
  • France - July 23rd, 2008
  • Japan - August 1st, 2008

Any early screenings? Sneak previews?
Yes.
(last update: 6/11/08)



Who starring? Who's directing? Etc?
THE INCREDIBLE HULK ( 2008 )

The Cast

The Crew


Is this a sequel to Ang Lee's 2003 Film?
  • No. Similar to 2005's BATMAN BEGINS, this is a reinvention of the franchise.
  • Likewise, the James Bond franchise underwent a 4 year "reboot" from DIE ANOTHER DAY (2002) to CASINO ROYALE (2006)

Any sequels planned?
  • Norton stated that he wrote the screenplay with the intention of it being the first of three films.
  • Tim Roth has signed on for three films.

Do you have a link to the trailers?


What merchandise/tie-ins are available?

What about a soundtrack?

CONTESTS

Any notable reviews / articles / set visits?

DVD / BLU-RAY INFO (Release Date, Details, Pre-Orders)
  • Street Date : TBA (generally 3-4 months from release date, so around September/October 2008)

    Letterier: Yeah, because your movie lives for like three weeks, a
    month and a half if you're lucky in the theater. Then for the rest of
    its life it lives on DVD and now we're the first Universal Blue Ray
    DVD and so we're really putting everything into it with multi-layers.
    So everything, all this stuff - there's no secret - that was cut out
    of the movie will be put onto the DVD. It's a lot of stuff. Actually,
    we save time by doing the Kyle Cooper stuff in the beginning, all the
    sequences like the lab transformation, finding Banner - all of that
    stuff was like little flashbacks spread out throughout the film. That
    was one of the things that we took out of the film and so I'm going to
    unravel this thing and put them in there in their full length scenes
    on the DVD. I don't think it'll be like a long edition of the movie. I
    don't like because I think the movie now is in its perfect shape.
    Really, it's perfect shape as a movie. We've dropped some images but
    we've not dropped entire scenes. Initially we maybe dropped one or two
    scenes. These are scenes that'll be on the DVD, of course, but also
    the long version of these scenes that we compacted. I just don't think
    that I want to do a longer version of 'The Hulk', a two and a half
    hour version of this movie because for these kinds of movies, these
    chase movies I've done a few and I don't think it works. I think that
    you sort of, the audience gets out of breath after a while. That went
    an hour and fifty two minutes with the credit sequence and it's the
    longest chase movie that I've seen in a long time without losing it's
    pace. It's just really fast. So you'll get a whole lot of Hulk and you
    see a whole lot of scope. You start in the arctic and then you're in
    Brazil and then you go throughout America and you finish in New York
    City. It's huge.
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    Collider.com
    (excerpt)

    Question: I have to ask you there's been a lot of talk about the 2 different cuts that exist on the movie. Obviously the DVD is going to have more footage.

    Louis Leterrier: Yeah.

    Question: So, could you talk about what was cut out of the film, like is there 15 minutes?

    Louis Leterrier: No, the final way of me cutting this maybe there's like 10-15 minutes of stuff, but there's a lot of stuff like on the Blue-Ray I think we'll have 70 minutes of stuff.

    Question: Seventeen or

    Louis Leterrier: Seventy. 7-0.

    Question: 70!

    Louis Leterrier: Yeah, because you shoot a lot of stuff, yeah. What's another picture? Yeah, but that's what great. It's like the back story. It's more the sequel to the Ang Lee movie.

    Question: I have to ask you, so the Blue-Ray, the DVD just has a little bit�

    Louis Leterrier: No the Blue-Ray, it's whatever we can put on the DVD. Like DVD's you have like 3 hours of like yeah, you have a limit of 3 hours of footage and stuff. The Blue-Ray you have something like 100 hours, so if they do a double DVD but like the Blue-Ray is what's going to be good. So on the Blue-Ray I'm trying to put as much of the stuff, I want to put everything we shot, you know? I'm not the kind of guy that likes to keep the stuff for myself. I'm like, okay you student filmmakers, here's what I did right and here's what I did wrong and in some of the stuff, in the 70 minutes, there's some great stuff and there's some really horrible stuff, but you'll see it all, you know?

    Question: What about the behind-the-scenes material?

    Louis Leterrier: Oh there's like tons of stuff like great stuff. That's actually much longer. We've got like 3 hours of material, how we made the Hulk and everything. That's great stuff.

    Question: Getting into the 70, is it all character stuff? Is it certain�

    Louis Leterrier: Oh, there's action stuff. There's everything. We cut everything. We give you the nice haircut like yours.
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MISCELLANEOUS
  • Why does the Hulk never speak? Are they planning on having him speak?
  • Letterier has stated that Lou Ferrigno has been hired to do the voice of the Hulk. As for why he rarely speaks, this interview gives some insight:

    Feige: He's never dumb. Speaking or not speaking I'm not sure that The
    Hulk was ever dumb. He is not verbose in his linguistics.

    Letterier: You get an understanding, and as I was talking to you as we
    met about this that was just my stupid French guy analogy of that.
    Let's say Banner has Hulked out nine times, three times, five times
    since we've met this guy and when we see him for the first time
    onscreen. It's like a five day old baby therefore. Hulk is a new
    creature, a five day old baby. Hulk, like a baby, every time he opens
    his eyes has people shooting at him or hitting him, everything and so
    he becomes a reactive and aggressive creature, a defensive creature.
    In this movie he gets to Hulk out a few times and he gets to learn
    things along the way, meeting people, different characters and
    opponents. That's why in the beginning he's very primal in his way of
    fighting, but once he fights Abomination at the end he has learned new
    trick and new things. So his evolution is quite important.
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  • Letterier & Marvel's take on the HULK franchise

    The greatest thing that's happened in the last few weeks is that people having seen the
    movie are calling us and sending us emails saying, 'You did it.
    Everything you said you were going to do two years ago for the
    franchise, for the character you've done.' That's been encouraging and
    that's why I just can't wait for people to see the whole movie and
    each TV spot and you guys seeing more scenes and things like that. I
    think the reality of what this is and what this can be - even before
    Louis came onboard, just when we used to sit around at Marvel and talk
    and go, 'You know what we need? We need a "Wrath of Kahn".' It wasn't
    Star Trek The Motion Picture that launched five more series and nine
    more movies. It was 'The Wrath of Kahn' and that's what we need. It's
    not throwing the baby out with the bath water and tapping into what
    people really, really like about the franchise and I hope that's what
    we've done.
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  • Letterier and Norton re-enacting fight scenes at the offices of Marvel.

    Letterier: It was actually really funny. Very early on we talked about
    the fights and the fighting style and Edward and myself, in the middle
    of the Marvel offices, pushed all the furniture back and I was like,
    'Then Abomination stabs him with this thing!' It was Mr. Intellectual
    Actor rolling around with me and studying with each other. 'And he
    tears the bone!'
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FILM EASTER EGGS (SPOILERS)

  • Easter egg defined in this instance as things to keep an eye out for that some people may miss upon first viewing.
  • Bill Bixby's cameo (on Bruce's TV in Brazil)
  • Stan Lee's cameo -- the ship is named Excelsior
  • Stark Industries references galore
  • Super Soldier Serum (Red, white and blue) - Weapon Plus; J. Reinstein; Vita-Rays
  • "Lonely Man" piano theme (updated)
  • Tony Stark's cameo at the end of the film
  • Captain America appearance (may be in a deleted scene for the DVD)
  • Memo to Nick Fury
  • SHIELD database/documents
  • In Guatamale - Hulk writers names on green roller door (Banner on run, sleeping on streets)
  • Lou Ferrigno - Security Guard
  • Jim Wilson is interviewed by Jack McGee
  • Culver University - nod to the TV show - Banner worked at Culver Institute
  • Cave/Thunder/Rian scene - http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b351/taxman31/Untitled-3copy.jpg

BOX OFFICE NUMBERS
(to be updated when numbers are available)

$0 million - DOMESTIC (to date)
$0 million - INTERNATIONAL (to date)
$0 - WORLDWIDE (to date)

$0 - Previews
$0 - OPENING DAY (June 13th, 2007)
$0 - OPENING WEEKEND (domestic) (Fri - Sun only - 3 days)

Box Office Guru Prediction: $53 million opening weekend
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This FAQ will be updated with new questions as necessary.

If you can think of any commonly asked questions to add, PM me. The purpose of this FAQ is to help any casual/new fans who may visit the forum.
 
Wait...


...there's a new Hulk movie coming out?

Didn't they just make one not too long ago?

Why are they making another one?


Just kidding, Cth, kudos on a slick thread! Thank you!
 
You didn't include the UK release date, for shame! :oldrazz:.

Just to add, the part about sequels, Tim Roth said in an interview he'd been signed up for 3 movies.

Good idea for a thread.
 
Groovy! Getting near go time.
 
I guess we know whether Abdomination survives this movie or not then.
 
Kirmit said:
You didn't include the UK release date, for shame! :oldrazz:.

Just to add, the part about sequels, Tim Roth said in an interview he'd been signed up for 3 movies.

Good idea for a thread.
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Updated the first post with UK release date and Roth info.

ROTH INFO:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/05/sm_timroth05.xml&page=3

'I think it's fantastic,' he says of The Incredible Hulk with unabashed enthusiasm. 'I did it purely for my little boys, and my older son. If you're going to be on a lunchbox, it should be cool. The director [Louis Leterrier] came to me and pitched this story. This is like the graphic novels, it's got some darkness in it. And he got Ed Norton in, which is great.' Roth says they have signed him for three Hulk films, but he is, as usual, blithely dismissive of whether that will actually mean anything: he suspects his baddie will perish.
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Anyone have links to info about Liv Tyler, Ed Norton, etc as well?

LL said he'd be interested in returning if they wanted him, but I don't think he's signed for multiple films either.
 
Yah I wouldn't read into it too much...after all, this is not a reality-based world we are being brought into with this movie!
 
Added the new MTV TV Spot to the list.
 
Kirmit said:
Thanks man it was really bugging me :yay:.

I don't think this gives away if abombination bites the dust or not, he may die but not stay dead, I'm sure someone like the leader could bring him back to life :cwink:.
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Tim Roth said in the Marvel Spotlight interview that he signed onto three films and if Marvel want Abomination back in sequels they will find ways of bringing him back and he will happily come back.

Leterrier also mentioned a bit where he said he reads these forums and wants to respond to posts but is not allowed to. He also says if people don't like something then he will change it if he agrees to what they are saying.

Go to the Marvel Spotlight thread and check out the scans I posted, it is a good read.
 
yeah, delete my thread and sticky this one Show :up:
 
Anybody know when the hollywood premier is?

Also, who is running the advance showings? I live in freakin' Raleigh and I want to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Just wondering/worrying...is the final battle with Abomy still gonna be 30 minutes long or so? Please don't tell me that's been cut down.
 
webhead731 said:
Just wondering/worrying...is the final battle with Abomy still gonna be 30 minutes long or so? Please don't tell me that's been cut down.
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I seem to remember them saying the actual fighting was about 15 minutes...
 
webhead731 said:
Just wondering/worrying...is the final battle with Abomy still gonna be 30 minutes long or so? Please don't tell me that's been cut down.
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nope, teh final act is 26 mins long, the final fight could be about 15 or 10mins long, 26 is just way too much IMO
 
Updated the first post with some info about the DVD, American Gladiator tie-in, new clips, etc.
 
Thanks, added them to the original post!
 
Updated original post with another screening @ Indianapolis.
 
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