Confirmed: Lou Ferrigno Voicing 'The Incredible Hulk'
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Back at New York Comic Con earlier this year, there was this very odd moment during The Incredible Hulk panel when Lou Ferrigno surprised everyone in the crowd and director Louis Leterrier had the old, TV Hulk scream out a little "Hulk smash!" for the fans. Half-jokingly, Leterrier then said Ferrigno would be the voice of the Hulk in the new film.Those of us in the crowd didn't really know what to think: Was Leterrier being serious? Were they just messing with us? Well, according to a new interview over in Variety, it would appear that Ferrigno is, indeed, voicing the Hulk.
When asked if we "finally get to hear a good 'Hulk smash!,'" Marvel's Kevin Feige and producer Gale Ann Hurd noted, "Yes. After five TV seasons, several TV movies and the first feature, Hulk will speak. (Yeah, he had a line in the Ang Lee film, but it was a dream.) Hulk's verbal skills and intelligence have varied in the comics, but he's never been as mute as the TV version. So it's a little ironic that TV Hulk Lou Ferrigno will give voice to the Hulk in this film. Producer Gale Ann Hurd says Ferrigno was a last-minute addition to a panel on the movie at New York's Comic-Con. Director Leterrier invited him to "audition" onstage. "Lou did this amazing, 'Hulk smash!' " says Hurd. "And (director Louis Leterrier) said, 'Come in, we'll record you next week.' Everybody thought it was either a staged event or we wouldn't really do it. But the next week Lou came in in L.A. and his voice is the voice of the Hulk."
Do you think the Hulk should speak in the new film? The Incredible Hulk hits screens on June 13.
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6-02-2008 @ 12:47PM
DAVID F said...
Sure! I'm up for it.
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6-02-2008 @ 1:32PM
GL said...
I just can't take this seriously.
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6-02-2008 @ 2:02PM
Riley Freeman said...
yes. i dealt with watching the last 30 minsof king king gruting all over the place and that was boring.
let the beast speak. and i JUSTTT watched rambo this weekend and i dont remember too much dialogue in that movie just a lot of violence. the movie was over and remember saying to myself when was the last time someone talked in this movie. so umm im definitely up for some talking. watching someone grunt around for 30 mins is annoying
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6-02-2008 @ 9:40PM
directing_mind said...
At first I was not to enthused to see this, but the more clips I see the more I realize that Ang Lees serious take on the hulk has benefited this story big time. It looks less like a campy superhero movie and more like a good big monster movie. Having the Monster speak for his disdain of humans would be awesome. "Puny Human" or Roaring out "SMASH" as he destroys some huge military vehicle and sends it flying miles away in his anger would be great!
Tim Roth looks like a royal a-hole in the clips, it'll be great to see him as the heavy. Norton actually makes a pretty decent Banner too, but will pass on Liv Tyler .
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6-02-2008 @ 3:38PM
Hugo said...
The thing is, im a lifelong comic book fan but the last movie somehow made me think that the Hulk didn't speak, after reading these comments from the director's I i knocked myself on the head for forgetting the charcater always spoke, even in a simple Hulk SMash kind of way.
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6-02-2008 @ 3:48PM
Pucky said...
Louis explained that they're approaching it as if the Hulk is growing, maturing, learning... So now, Banner has "hulked out" enough so that Hulk has enough experience to begin forming words with his "primal" brain. This is all paraphrasing. Louis said it much better in the article I read.
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6-02-2008 @ 4:46PM
Christian said...
Who wants to see the Hulk if he DOESN'T say "HULK SMASH?"
And they definitely have to get in a "Hulk is the strongest one there is."
Without it, it will FLOP. That was a MAJOR flaw in Ang Lee's version. And please, Bruce Banner is the sad one, HULK is ANGRY. ONLY ANGRY.
They should release a trailer with that.
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6-02-2008 @ 9:19PM
Mike said...
Of course Hulk should speak. He always could in the comics. I don't know why Hollywood reduces all their adaptions to grunts. They did the same thing with Frankenstein's monster for years, though he was quite articulate in the novel.
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6-08-2008 @ 4:05AM
Mark said...
For the record, Hulk had more than one line in the 2003 movie, and his second line was not a dream sequence.
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6-14-2008 @ 8:41PM
Rob said...
it was soooooo worth it everybody in the theatre went nuts when he said it
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