Hulk - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Hulk or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Hulk

[amber]

A rollercoaster at Universal Studios theme park is based on this movie. This is especially noticeable when entering the cars of the ride. The platform is designed to look like the interior of the underground labs where Bruce Banner is taken to after being drugged. In the movie, after Talbot is killed, the Hulk escapes to a control room that he begins to destroy. General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross instructs one of the soldiers to light the tunnel to "Show him the way out". This control room and tunnel are the same design used on the rollercoaster, with the tunnel being the accelerating climb that begins the ride.

[caroline]

The Hulk was originally supposed to be an animatronic.

[miriam]

The Abrams tanks that confront the Hulk in the desert are in fact former British Army Chieftain tanks that were dressed to represent the Abrams. The mock-ups are very convincing and quite difficult to spot. The Chieftain has six wheels per side, whereas the Abrams has seven.

[frederick]

The frog is fake. The crew pumped air into it to make it look like it was breathing.

[kristen]

Cinematographer Frederick Elmes worked on The Ice Storm (1997) with Ang Lee.

[ivan]

In April 1997 Joe Johnston was going to direct the film, but dropped out of the project in July of that year to film October Sky (1999). Johnston directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).

[maureen]

The helicopters were made with computer graphics, but based on military designs.

[jamie]

The computer graphic of the underground base took three months to make. The bunker was built at Universal Studios, Burbank, California, on the seventh largest soundstage in the world.

[sylvia]

The first production to be filmed in the Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest within the Sequoia National Forest, outside of Springville, California.

[phyllis]

Costume Designer Marit Allen had to come up with unflattering, nerdy clothes for Bruce Banner, to disguise the fact that Eric Bana was actually in perfect shape.

[camila]

The amount of CGI involved in the Hulk's battle against the three mutant dogs was one of the hardest, most complicated scenes ILM had ever done. Ultimately, what ended up on-screen was only one third of what was originally storyboarded. To have filmed all of it would have been simply too expensive.

[lena]

The storage units and town were built just for this movie in Victorville, California.

[harry]

Nick Nolte and Bill Bixby, star of The Incredible Hulk (1977), appeared in Rich Man, Poor Man (1976).

[bessie]

A lot of the microbiology work we see on-screen is real, and is the work of Director Ang Lee's wife.

[sara]

This film holds the record for largest second weekend box-office drop for a film that opened at number one, with a 69.7 percent drop.

[frances]

Contrary to common knowledge, the film had a sequel in the form of a video-game tie-in of the same name released at the same time as the film. This generally well-received and bestselling game, along with the successful merchandising, furthered the chances of a potential 'Hulk 2' film to be greenlit by Universal, when the film itself turned out to be just a marginal success at the box office. The game also has a limited series comicbook tie-in called "Hulk: Gamma Games"

[oscar]

Ang Lee was asked to direct after the huge success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).

[clayton]

The Hulk's starfish motif is the result of director Ang Lee's desire to hang some natural science on the Marvel Comics fantasy. "Ang was interested in knowing, could this actually happen to a human being?" says producer Larry Franco. Hence, extensive research by an MIT scientist reeled in jellyfish that turn green, sea cucumbers that grow thick, hard skin, and starfish with regenerative powers -- all attributes shared by The Hulk.

[ronnie]

Eric Bana (Bruce Banner) and Sam Elliott (General Ross) share a birthday of August 9.