The Incredible Hulk: The Abridged Script
By: Rod Hilton on Jul 21st, 2008 | Movie Rating: 
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The Hulk's toilet did not survive his trip to Chick-fil-A.
(Holy shit, this is the 200th Abridged Script I’ve written for this site! And the 26th I’ve written sober!)
FADE IN:
INT. RESEARCH LABORATORY
We are shown a montage of EDWARD NORTON’S transformation into a green monster while the credits roll, allowing us to skip over all of that boring character development and jump right into scenes of EDWARD NORTON looking CONCERNED and GREEN CARTOONS BREAKING SHIT.
INT. SODA BOTTLING COMPANY - BRAZIL
EDWARD NORTON bottles soda and tries not to flip the fuck out. Some RANDOM JERKS start picking on an INNOCENT HOT GIRL.
EDWARD NORTON
Leave her alone. Don’t make me angry. You won’t like me when I’m angry.
RANDOM JERK
Why, because you’ll rewrite the entire script yourself if you get pissed off?
EDWARD NORTON
Well, yes. But moreover, I turn into a violent monster when I get angry. That’s why I got a job working in a dangerous manufacturing plant full of people.
EDWARD tries to remain calm, but accidentally cuts himself and a drop of blood falls into a soda bottle. EDWARD presses the EMERGENCY STOP button and grabs it.
EDWARD’S BOSS
Geeze Norton, chill the fuck out. What’s the big deal?
EDWARD NORTON
Wait, even if you don’t know that I have contaminated blood, shouldn’t you still be a bit disturbed by shipping out a soda with blood in it anyway?
EDWARD’S BOSS
This is Jones Soda Company, dude. We’ll just call it “Blood” and release it at Halloween.
One bottle with blood still in it gets shipped out, where it is drunk by STAN LEE in an GRATUITOUS CAMEO.
EDWARD NORTON goes online and talks to a mysterious stranger named MR. BLUE.
MR. BLUE
Hello Mr. Green. A/S/L?
EDWARD NORTON
39/M/Brazil. Figure out how to cure me yet?
MR. BLUE
No, I need you to send me some of your blood. Surely the suspiciously mysterious nature of our relationship shouldn’t be any cause for concern.
EDWARD NORTON
Alright fine. I’ll send some of my blood to you, even though it’s obvious that this is a mistake. Now what?
MR. BLUE
I put on my robe and wizard hat…
Meanwhile…
INT. PENTAGON - UNITED STATES
TIM ROTH enters WILLIAM HURT’S office.
TIM ROTH
There’s been a report of soda-induced gamma poisoning.
WILLIAM HURT
It’s summertime - it was probably just some new Mountain Dew flavor, that shit will kill you.
TIM ROTH
I checked, sir. It came from a soda company in Brazil.
WILLIAM HURT
Brazil! That must be where Edward Norton is! I’ll see to it that Edward is captured or my name isn’t General “Thunderbolt” “Sawdust” “Explosion” “Football” Hurt!
TIM ROTH
Are we just going to ignore the possible existence of a second Hulk created by drinking the soda? Yeah? We are? Alright.
TIM ROTH takes a team to BRAZIL to try and capture EDWARD NORTON.
EDWARD NORTON
Mr. Orange? What the hell are you doing in my movie? Are you trying to upstage me? I’m Edward Fucking Norton!
EDWARD becomes furious and turns into THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE HULK!
TIM ROTH
Holy shit, a broccoli monster! Aiee!
GREEN EDWARD NORTON
RAWWRR! HULK SMASH!
TIM ROTH
I’m sorry, did you just say “Hulk trash”? Because so far, I agree. It is.
GREEN EDWARD NORTON beats the MILITARY GUYS up and escapes to AMERICA.
INT. CULVER UNIVERSITY - VIRGINIA
EDWARD NORTON tries to get some records from his old computer and runs into LIV TYLER.
EDWARD NORTON
Liv! I need you to help me, when I get angry I turn into The Hulk.
LIV TYLER
Didn’t we just have a Hulk movie like five years ago? Does Hollywood get mulligans or something? Will they keep remaking this shit every five years until one of them doesn’t suck?
EDWARD NORTON
I guess we’ll know in five years.
LIV TYLER
Hopefully this movie, unlike the last one, will consist of more than just the Hulk trying to get away from the military the whole time.
EDWARD NORTON
Oh, is that what made the last one so boring? I thought we’d be safe if I just got rid of the Hulk Dogs.
The two of them hide from the GOVERNMENT and try to figure out how to cure EDWARD. They to go find MR. BLUE somewhere in NEW YORK CITY.
INT. NEW YORK CITY
They find MR. BLUE, who turns out to be TIM BLAKE NELSON.
EDWARD NORTON
Every time I get angry, I turn into an uncontrollable monster that never does anything evil and therefore isn’t really shown to be all that uncontrollable! You need to help me remain calm at all times.
TIM BLAKE NELSON
If you’re asking for a prescription for medical marijuana, I can’t help you…
EDWARD NORTON
No, you have to study my blood to figure out how to turn the green cells into red cells. Seriously, that’s what we’re going with for the science part of this movie.
TIM BLAKE NELSON
Well I’ve been studying your blood for months. I keep it stockpiled in the back so that I can turn it into a weapon for the government.
EDWARD NORTON
How unforeseen!
TIM ROTH breaks into TIM BLAKE NELSON’S lab and EDWARD runs away.
TIM ROTH
Despite having no motivation to do so, I want you to inject me with Norton’s blood.
TIM BLAKE NELSON
That’s a bad idea. You may become some kind of… ABOMINATION!
TIM ROTH
No, this whole movie is an abomination. I’ll just look stupid.
TIM ROTH gets injected and turns into a BROWN GLOB OF PIXELS.
EDWARD NORTON
Oh no! Another person has been afflicted with my power, and the only way for me to stop them is by embracing the monster within myself and fighting!
LIV TYLER
Oh yeah. This movie is totally different from Ang Lee’s version. So glad we made this.
EDWARD turns into a GREEN GLOB OF PIXELS and the two PIXEL GLOBS are rendered far apart, then close together, then far apart, and then close together.
WILLIAM HURT
Is this really supposed to pass for entertainment? CGI shit throwing other CGI shit around? It’s 2008 for christsake.
Eventually, the machine rendering BROWN TIM ROTH runs out of DISK SPACE and he is DEFEATED.
INT. BAR
EDWARD goes back into HIDING. ROBERT DOWNEY JR approaches WILLIAM HURT.
ROBERT DOWNEY JR
Samuel L. Jackson and I are forming a group and we’d like to talk to Edward Norton about joining.
WILLIAM HURT
God damn, are all of these movies just 2-hour trailers for some unwatchable Avengers movie to be released in a few years?
ROBERT DOWNEY JR
Yes.
WILLIAM HURT
I guess we should all brace ourselves for the release of a Wonder Man movie.
END
Gotta fix this:
BALE went to NINJA SCHOOL and KILLS THE FUCKING SHIT out of EVERYONE there when he graduates, except LIAM NEESON, which will TOTALLY NOT COME BACK TO BITE HIM IN THE ASS.
Can The Dark Knight be mocked here? Certainly. The Deus-Ex-Totally-Unnecessary-Machina Batman uses near the end needs a send-up.
As for Katie Holmes, I didn’t find her to be that bad in Begins. But that might be because she was in it for about ten minutes, and Batman wasn’t lusting after her like some sort of crazed stalker (or Spiderman, if you’d prefer).
July 26th, 2008 at 11:14 pmMR. BLUE
I put on my robe and wizard hat…
Heeeeeheeee :D
July 27th, 2008 at 3:35 amIm not gong to lie, I like your scripts when they’re good and draw on actual flaws of the movie, however one passage was entirely incorrect:
TIM BLAKE NELSON
Well I’ve been studying your blood for months. I keep it stockpiled in the back so that I can turn it into a weapon for the government.
EDWARD NORTON
How unforeseen!
TIM ROTH breaks into TIM BLAKE NELSON’S lab and EDWARD runs away.
TIM ROTH
Despite having no motivation to do so, I want you to inject me with Norton’s blood.
Samuel Sterns/The Leader (Tim Blake Nelsons Character) wasnt going to use it as a weapon. He was going to synthesize it and use it as a cure. Banner knew that the government would just take it and turn it into a weapon. And, Emil Blonsky was shown early on as a consummate soldier, if he didnt get the job done he’d keep at it until he did. He got injected with the serum in the first place to be able to go toe to toe with Hulk. That failed but he was at that point becoming addicted to the power he had and longing for the power the Hulk had. To say he had no motivation to inject himself with further dosages of the serum is incorrect.
Like I said, I love it when you expose the flaws of a movie but at least let them be actual problems with it.
And also, Tony Stark wasnt approaching Ross to have Norton join the Avengers. The Avengers were first formed to stop the Hulk, same as the Ultimates (the Ultimate Universe’ Avengers). Stark was approaching Ross to let him know that a solution to the Hulk problem was coming and presumably to get all the info that Ross had on the project since though SHIELD in the movies is a US government branch the Gamma project was top secret.
side note: Without CG how WOULD they render the Hulk character? A man in green makeup? I think that’d be worse.
July 27th, 2008 at 11:10 ammy favorite line was ” I put on my robe and my wizard hat” nice reference dude!!!
bloodninja, right? :D
Laterz. Keep up the good work!
July 27th, 2008 at 1:27 pmI’m looking forward for the Wonder Man movie!
July 28th, 2008 at 3:58 pm“side note: Without CG how WOULD they render the Hulk character? A man in green makeup? I think that’d be worse.”
obviously, you’ve never watched the hulk tv series.
August 5th, 2008 at 10:29 pmHey Mike ,what was the machina here i’m not sure Batman even WON in that movie, badass tough it may be.
August 8th, 2008 at 5:08 pmGreat sript as usual but one thing
August 11th, 2008 at 5:42 amCan we stop the CGI bashing for once? Okay sometimes movies use CGI but sometimes its god damned necessary! Its either that or Edward Norton running around painted green with fake muscles duct taped to his arms and legs.
To address a frequent point made in these comments:
My objection to the CGI in this movie is not with the CGI itself, it is with the fact that this movie (and others like it) rely on CGI as the only mechanism for entertainment.
Meaning, rather than a compelling, suspenseful fight sequence, the filmmakers simply render a boring fight sequence using “never-before-seen” CGI and hope to pass that off as entertainment. My point here is that, it’s 2008 - CGI is commonplace. CGI alone cannot wow audiences like it used to. The end of this movie wasn’t bad because it was CGI, it was bad because it was ONLY CGI.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:25 pm*cough* Transformers *cough*
August 13th, 2008 at 6:35 am