Released: 2008
Budget: 150 million
Gross: 263 million
Marvel Character Cast:
Bruce Banner/Hulk: Edward Norton (Lou Ferrigno voices the Hulk and has a cameo)
Elizabeth “Betty” Ross: Liv Tyler
General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross: William Hurt
Emil Blonsky/Abomination: Tim Roth
Doctor Leonard Samson: Ty Burrell
Samuel Sterns/Leader Tim Blake Nelson
Synopsis:
Bruce Banner, while doing a military research experiment, has an accident that effects his body chemistry. Now when his heart rate increases to fast in times of stress or anger, he becomes a giant green monster known as the Hulk. In the process he injures fellow scientist and girlfriend Betty Ross, whose father General Ross oversaw the project. Banner becomes a fugitive and tries to find a cure, while on the run from Ross and the army. General Ross attempts to turn Emil Blonsky into a super-soldier to fight the Hulk, with abominable results.
Marvel Universe References:
In the opening montage we see several documents and newspaper clippings. The names Nick Fury and Rick Jones flash on the screen, as does the logo for Stark Industries.
General Ross tells Emil that in World War Two there was a super soldier program, referred to as bio-tech force enhancement. The project was abandoned for unknown reasons but Ross revived it. Banner was helping with this but didn’t realize it.
In another scene Ross takes some old super soldier serum out of cold storage. On the storage unit it says Weapon Plus Program, Dr. Reinstein. It also as a Stark Logo on it.
Also of note is Jack McGee appears as a college journalist. This was a reporter character from the TV series. He is onscreen with Jim Wilson, who in the comics was a friend of the Hulk.
