

David subjects himself to the nanomeds and gammasphere, becoming able to meld with and absorb the properties of anything he touches. Deeming him doomed to follow in David's footsteps, Ross doubts helping Bruce, but Betty persuades Ross to let her try. The Hulk finds Betty at her forest cabin, saves her from the dogs, and changes back.īetty calls Ross the following day the army sedates and takes Bruce to Desert Base. Bemoaning the lab's destruction, Talbot attacks Bruce, who transforms, injuring Talbot and Ross's MPs. David calls Bruce that night, revealing he mutated his three dogs and sicced them on Betty, enraging him. After hours of interrogation, Ross seizes the lab and places Bruce under house arrest.

Ross arrives later to question Bruce before Betty locates David to investigate him. Betty finds Bruce unconscious in his home the next morning, barely remembering the previous night. Bruce's increasing rage from the tensions around him activates his gamma-radiated DNA he becomes the Hulk and destroys the lab. He later uses samples of Bruce's DNA for animal experimentation. Later, David meets Bruce, revealing their relationship and hinting at Bruce's mutation. Bruce wakes in a hospital bed and tells Betty he feels better than ever, but Betty cannot fathom his survival since the nanomeds killed everything else unknown to them, the radiation merged with Bruce's altered DNA. The now-general Ross investigates, becoming concerned for Betty's safety around Bruce.īruce saves a colleague named Harper from an accident with a malfunctioning gammasphere. David reappears as a janitor in the lab building to infiltrate Bruce's life. Representing the private research company Atheon, the shady Glenn Talbot becomes interested in the scientists' nanomeds research to create regenerating soldiers for the military-industrial complex. Thirty years later, Bruce is a brilliant scientist working at the Berkeley Lab with his girlfriend and Ross's estranged daughter, Betty Ross. Krenzler adopts him, and Bruce assumes the surname, growing up believing his birth parents are dead. Ross arrests and sends David to a mental hospital, putting the 4-year-old Bruce into foster care. Believing he is dangerous, David tries to kill Bruce but accidentally murders Edith when she gets between them the trauma makes Bruce suppress his early childhood memories. After discovering his experiments, Ross shuts down David's research David rigs Desert Base's gamma reactor to explode as revenge. David realizes Bruce inherited his mutant DNA and attempts to find a cure. His wife, Edith, soon gives birth to their son, Bruce Banner. His supervisor, Colonel Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, forbids human experimentation, so David experiments on himself. A planned sequel was repurposed as a reboot titled The Incredible Hulk and released on June 13, 2008, as the second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.ĭavid Banner is a genetics researcher for the government trying to improve human DNA. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its cast's performances, ambition and style, but criticism for its dialogue, lack of action sequences, and computer-generated imagery. Hulk was released by Universal Pictures on June 20, 2003, and grossed $245.4 million worldwide, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of 2003. The project was filmed primarily in California from March to August 2002, mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area. Abrams, Michael Tolkin, David Hayter, Scott Alexander, and Larry Karaszewski wrote more scripts before Ang Lee and James Schamus' involvement. Hensleigh, John Turman, Michael France, Zak Penn, J. At one time, Joe Johnston and then Jonathan Hensleigh were to direct. The United States military pursues him, and he clashes with his biological father, who has dark plans for his son.ĭevelopment started in 1990. After a lab accident involving gamma radiation, he transforms into a giant green-skinned creature known as the Hulk whenever stressed or emotionally provoked. The film explores Bruce Banner's origins. The film stars Eric Bana as Bruce Banner and Hulk, alongside Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas, and Nick Nolte. Produced by Universal Pictures in association with Marvel Enterprises, Valhalla Motion Pictures, and Good Machine, and distributed by Universal, it was directed by Ang Lee and written by James Schamus, Michael France, and John Turman, from a story conceived by Schamus. Hulk is a 2003 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
