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Acclaimed Oscar-winning filmmaker ANG LEE (Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon) turns his masterful eye to adapting the
classic Marvel Comics character for the big screen.
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What if you always had someone around to look
out for you?
To defend you when challenged by a bully, threatened by an enraged
driver, assaulted by a knife-wielding mugger? That at those moments
of stress and escalating violence, someone appears—an ever-present
avenger, fueled by righteous anger and possessing unequalled strength—and
vanquishes the antagonist, rights the wrong, settles the score. Without
remorse. Without consequence. Without memory.
And what if that someone...was you?
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Scoring the original soundtrack is famed composer,
Danny Elfman whose unmistakable music has been featured in several
blockbuster movies including Spider-Man, Batman and
Men In Black II.
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Acclaimed Oscar-winning filmmaker ANG LEE (Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon) turns his masterful eye to adapting the
classic Marvel Comics character for the big screen. Setting out to
faithfully transfer the Hulk comic book character from four-color
paneled page to motion picture screen, Lee combines all the elements
of a blockbuster visual effects-intensive Super Hero movie with the
brooding romance and tragedy of Universal’s classic horror films.
Staying true to the early subversive spirit of the Hulk as envisioned
by its creators (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby) while also tuning the tale
to current dangerous times, Lee presents a portrait of a man at war
with himself and the world, both a Super Hero and a monster, a means
of wish fulfillment and a nightmare.
Committed to bringing the Hulk to authentic life, director Lee and
his effects teams logged countless hours to assure a creature true
to the essence of Kirby’s powerful seminal artwork and Lee’s
mythic stories. Designers and artists returned to the original Hulk
character conceptions to honor the Marvel traditions and place the
creature in a motion picture world—grounded in reality, dictated
by time-honored practice and colored by comic book convention.
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What if you always had someone around to look out for you?
To defend you when challenged by a bully, threatened by an enraged
driver, assaulted by a knife-wielding mugger? That at those moments
of stress and escalating violence, someone appears—an ever-present
avenger, fueled by righteous anger and possessing unequalled strength—and
vanquishes the antagonist, rights the wrong, settles the score. Without
remorse. Without consequence. Without memory.
And what if that someone...was you?
After more than four decades of continuing popularity, one of Marvel
Comics’ most enduring and compelling comic book creations comes
to the big screen, continuing Marvel’s superlative track record
of bringing its classic characters to motion picture life: Blade,
X-Men, Spider-Man, Daredevil. And now, this summer,
The Hulk arrives. Scientist Bruce Banner (ERIC BANA) has, to
put it mildly, anger management issues. His quiet life as a brilliant
researcher working with cutting edge genetic technology conceals a
nearly forgotten and painful past. His ex-girlfriend and equally brilliant
fellow researcher, Betty Ross (Academy Award® winner JENNIFER
CONNELLY), has tired of Bruce’s cordoned off emotional terrain
and resigns herself to remaining an interested onlooker to his quiet
life.
Which is exactly where Betty finds herself during one of the early
trials in Banner’s groundbreaking research. A simple oversight
leads to an explosive situation and Bruce makes a split-second decision;
his heroic impulse saves a life and leaves him apparently unscathed—his
body absorbing a normally deadly dose of gamma radiation.
...And yet, something is happening. Vague morning-after effects. Blackouts.
Unexpected fallout from the experiment gone awry. Banner begins to
feel some kind of a presence within, a stranger who feels familiar,
slightly dangerous and yet darkly attractive.
All the while, a massive creature—a rampaging, impossibly strong
being who comes to be known as the Hulk—continues its sporadic
appearances, cutting a swath of destruction, leaving Banner’s
lab in shambles and his house with blown out walls. The military is
engaged, led by Betty’s father, General "Thunderbolt"
Ross (SAM ELLIOTT), along with rival researcher Glenn Talbot (JOSH
LUCAS), and both personal vendettas and familial ties come into play,
heightening the danger and raising the stakes in the escalating emergency.
Betty Ross has her theories, and she knows the shadowy figure lurking
in the background, Bruce’s father, David (NICK NOLTE), is somehow
connected. She may be the only one who understands the link between
scientist and the Hulk, but her efforts to stop the military threat,
deploying every weapon in its attempt to capture the monster, may
be too late to save both man and creature.
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Scoring the original soundtrack is famed composer,
Danny Elfman whose unmistakable music has been featured in several
blockbuster movies including Spider-Man, Batman and
Men In Black II. The soundtrack also includes a new exclusive
track, "Set Me Free," which was inspired by the film and
recorded by the all-new super group, Velvet Revolver, featuring Scott
Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots; vocals), Slash (Guns N' Roses; guitar),
Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses; bass), Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses; drums)
and Dave Kushner (Suicidal Tendencies; guitar). This is the first-ever
commercially available track from this new hard rock mega-group and
can be downloaded exclusively on Apple’s iTunes Music Store from
June 8, 2003 through June 17, 2003.
The band was invited by director, Ang Lee to see an early cut of the
film which inspired them to write a powerful song that would match
the movie in both theme and intensity. Slash commented, "Writing
songs is really cool, but if you get inspired to do it for a really
good movie, the outcome is more fulfilling. We got a certain energy
from watching the film, and we wanted to do something that would be
really appropriate for it. The Hulk is a very dramatic version
of the same stuff that we all go through. All this bottled-up tension
is what the song's about, so it's a pretty good marriage: the theme
of the song and what The Hulk is all about."
Lending his dramatic musical talents to the film, Danny Elfman composed
a riveting score highlighting the intensity of this compelling story.
It is no surprise that Elfman’s was chosen to score The Hulk
given his previous work on a wide variety of projects including; Spider-Man,
Red Dragon, Batman, Planet of the Apes, Men
In Black II, Good Will Hunting, Mission Impossible,
most of Tim Burton’s movies including Edward Scissorhands,
Beetlejuice and cult classic The Nightmare Before Christmas.
He is also the composer behind the infectious quirky theme for The
Simpsons. Tim Burton has described Elfman as "a real artist
in the sense that he is like his music and his music is like him.
He brings that intuitive excitement to a project. He respects tradition
without doing it exactly."
Always an active presence in the world of film world, Danny Elfman
has been nominated for several Grammys including Planet of the
Apes for "Best Score Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture,
Television or Other Visual Media" and Batman and The
Nightmare Before Christmas. He won a Grammy for "Best Instrumental
Composition" for "The Batman Theme."
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Photo
credits: ILM/Universal
1 Main Titles
2 Prologue
3 Betty's Dream
4 Bruce's Memories
5 Captured
6 Dad's Visit
7 Hulk Out!
8 Father Knows Best
9 ...Making Me Angry
10 Gentle Giant
11 Hounds of Hell
12 The Truth Revealed
13 Hulk's Freedom
14 A Man Again
15 The Lake Battle
16 The Aftermath
17 The Phone Call
18 End Credits
19 Set Me Free
PERFORMED BY SCOTT WEILAND (Stone Temple Pilots), SLASH, DUFF McKAGAN
and MATT SORUM (Guns n'Roses) and DAVE KUSHNER (Suicidal Tendencies)
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Bruce Banner Eric Bana
Betty Ross Jennifer Connelly
Genera "Thunderbolt" Ross Sam Elliott
Glenn Talbot Josh Lucas
David Banner (Bruce's father) Nick Nolte
Ang Lee Director
James Schamus Story
John Turman and Michael France and James Schamus Screenplay
Gale Anne Hurd, Avi Arad, James Schamus, Larry Franco Producers
Stan Lee, Kevin Feige Executive Producers
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