The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989) on Netflix
NR19891h 40mActionAdventureDrama
David Banner drifts into a city run by crime boss Wilson Fisk. When he intervenes in a subway attack, the woman accuses him. Blind attorney Matt Murdock offers to defend him.
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Plot summary
Still wanted, David Banner keeps moving and hopes to pass unnoticed in a large city, unaware that crime boss Wilson Fisk controls it and that a masked crimefighter called Daredevil watches over the streets. Riding a commuter train, David sees two men assault a passenger, Ellie Mendez, and steps in. They beat him, he transforms into the Hulk, and when he is himself again the police arrest him; Ellie says David was the attacker and that the two men rescued her. Blind attorney Matt Murdock, who takes on the masked work of Daredevil, offers to represent David for free. Murdock wants to bring Fisk down and thinks David can help, but David refuses to cooperate.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Hulk co-creator Stan Lee played the jury foreman in a dream sequence, but director Bill Bixby had a stunt double stand in for the moment the Hulk flips the jury box, even though Lee was disappointed and thought the low hydraulic lift made it perfectly safe for him to do himself.
- The movie was secretly built as a backdoor pilot meant to launch a Daredevil television series, but that spinoff never got made.
- Despite the movie's title, writer and executive producer Gerald Di Pego says the production never actually discussed putting the Hulk on trial in a courtroom.
