The Trial of the Incredible Hulk
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The Trial of the Incredible Hulk is a 1989 TV movie sequel to the 1970s Incredible Hulk television series, featuring both the Hulk and fellow Marvel Comics character Daredevil. As was the case with the 'The Incredible Hulk Returns, this television movie also acted as a backdoor television pilot for an unproduced series featuring Daredevil.
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An increasingly despondent David Banner, played by Bill Bixby, has been framed for a subway mugging and is now faced with standing trial, where his condition could jeopardize lives if he is angrily provoked. He is pressured to take the stand by his lawyer Matt Murdock (played by Rex Smith), who is secretly the street vigilante Daredevil.
Banner and Murdock help each other with their own problems, and together battle crime boss Wilson Fisk (played by John Rhys-Davies), and clear Banner's name (the villain is known in the comics as the Kingpin although that nickname is not used here). During the course of the adventure, Banner finally gains a small victory over his transformations and remains calm long enough to save several lives from the clutches of Fisk.
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This movie was the first Marvel film or television project to feature a cameo appearance from famed creator Stan Lee, as the jury foreman in Banner's imagined trial. During this scene the Hulk also wears his signature purple pants, the first and only time the Bixby/Ferrigno Hulk did so.
In a note of irony, Rhys-Davies would later appear with Lou Ferrigno on the animated Incredible Hulk series voicing Thor, whom Ferrigno allied with in the live-action movie The Incredible Hulk Returns. However, due to the lack of a Hulk-Out from Banner in the final act, this marked the first time the two really worked together.
In Sweden they did change the name on the movie to Den otrolige Hulken i New York (The Incredible Hulk In New York) even that the city in the movie is a fictional city and not New York City.
[edit] Comics vs. Film
- In the comics, Daredevil wears a red costume that does not give an indiction that he is blind. In the television film, he wears a black, Ninja-inspired costume which overtly states his blindness. Stan Lee was publically critical of the costume and how it appeared to let the bad guys know of his disability.[citation needed]
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