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Pling in harness gag1/10/2024 Stand-up comedian and Hulk fanatic Stewart Lee did a well-known routine around the same pun.) “One of the Variety reporters snagged my arm and said, ‘Mr Johnson, don’t make me Ang Lee, you wouldn’t like me when I’m Ang Lee.” (That reporter wasn’t the only one to make the gag. “At the end of the premiere, the lights came up and everyone was sneaking out of the back door, trying not to talk to anybody because it was just so bad,” laughs Johnson. He created and executive produced the 1978-1982 television series, The Incredible Hulk, which starred Bill Bixby as Dr Banner and bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno as his monstrous alter-ego, the Hulk.Īng Lee’s film, starring Eric Bana, was the first attempt at a live-action (well, CGI) Hulk since – 25 years after Bixby uttered the immortal line: “Don’t make me angry, you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.” But Ang Lee flourishes aside (“A genius,” says Johnson, “but miscast as a director”), the 2003 Hulk was a turgid, oddly primitive effort – part of that first wave of 21 st Century superhero flicks, largely predicated on the allure of digital effects. Johnson certainly knows a thing or two about un-jolly green giants. “After 10 minutes, my wife Susie said, ‘Is it me, or is this the worst movie I’ve ever seen?’” “Everybody was groaning,” recalls Johnson. In 2003, writer-producer Kenneth Johnson attended the premiere of Hulk – the Ang Lee-directed, critical non-smash.
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