Basically, I read one and said, “OK, there’s nothing here that I can use except that when he gets angry, he metamorphoses.” One of the first things I did was call Stan Lee and say, “Stan, why is he green? The color of rage is red.” Stan said, “You know, in the first edition he was grey and then the printer said ‘We can make a pretty consistent green.” And I said, “Stan! That’s not organic!” What I was trying to do was pull away from as much as the comic book-ness as I could, so that I could really create something that could live and breathe in the real world. It was just sort of a secondary title among the Marvel Universe at the time. There was not much from the comics that I could take. How much did you consult the comic books?
Do the Hulk and then we’ll do Ivanhoe.” So, I wrote the pilot for The Incredible Hulk in about seven days, and ask me if Ivanhoe ever got made. I’ll do the Hulk if it’s my casting.” I also said, “Oh, by the way, I want something in return: I don’t think Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe has ever been done successfully.” He said, “That’s fine. Hyde, and try to turn this ludicrous thing called “The Incredible Hulk” into an adult drama built in the traditions of Greek tragedy. I found myself thinking, Maybe I could take a little Victor Hugo and borrow a little from Dr. But my wife had given me a a copy of Les Miserables, so I had Jean Valjean and the fugitive concept in my head. I don’t get along well with primary colors and spandex I really saw myself doing more realistic kind of stuff. (Credit to the website of Incredible Hulk showrunner Kenneth Johnson, which includes a list of every single Hulk-out compiled by super-fan Kevin Koster.) 1.What were some of the other ones offered to you? Inevitably, this meant that, alongside some genuinely threatening situations – stabbings, shootings, near-drownings – David was also seen to lose his cool over matters that were either pretty trivial, or just flat-out bonkers.Ĭheck out some of the funniest below. Sticking to the rules set down by the original Marvel comic books – that Banner's transformations could only be instigated by fits of anger or great stress – the Incredible Hulk team had to dream up new scenarios for a Hulk-out every single week. Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner, we learn in 2012's The A vengers, is "always angry" – able to initiate his transformations into the Hulk seemingly at will.īut for the writers of earlier screen adaptation The Incredible Hulk, which aired on CBS from 1977 to 1982, starring Bill Bixby as 'David' Banner, there was no such shortcut.
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