I can see a proposed Hulk/Spider-Man post-series TV special since later in the '80s there were Hulk telefilms in which ol' greenskin met fellow Marvel Comics characters Thor and Daredevil. I wonder if this live-action Hulk/Spider-Man team-up for 1984 was going to depict the black-and-white Spidey costume as it was in comicbooks of the time - an outfit of weird alien material responsive to Peter Parker's thoughts. Before the then-new outfit turned against Spidey, he could make it change into inconspicuous clothing for his Parker identity, shoot an endless supply of webbing (from openings on the backs of the gloves), and hide small items (mainly his special camera for taking photos of himself in action against criminals) by creating a small portal to some other dimension. The Hulk/Spider-Man telefilm probably would have just presented this alien outfit as a normal superhero costume (like the later woven copy of the outfit from '80s comics), both to save money and to not take too much story time away from the Hulk.
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4-Kane
17 years ago
I wonder if this live-action Hulk/Spider-Man team-up for 1984 was going to depict the black-and-white Spidey costume as it was in comicbooks of the time - an outfit of weird alien material responsive to Peter Parker's thoughts.
You wonder right. In the interview for SFX magazine, Nicholas Hammond said that the proposed TV-movie was going to include the black Spiderman costume.
Despite the claim that Lou Ferrigno was unavailable, Ferrigno himself contradicted this. In his 2003 autobiography, My Incredible Life As The Hulk, he said that he was never contacted about doing the Hulk/Spiderman TV-movie. He was actually available for the project since he had already completed Hercules 2 a few months eariler. But the studio never contacted him to see if he was available. He said that he was unaware of any plans for a Hulk/Spiderman movie until he discovered the information while working on his autobiography.
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falloutboy73
17 years ago
That movie was a cool idea, too bad it never developed. There were also more solid plans for Iron Man to appear in a Hulk movie after the Daredevil one. I remember reading this around the time the Daredevil/Hulk movie first premeired. It never happened for one reason or another and the third movie turned out to be Death Of The Hulk.
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Kevjess74
17 years ago
Assuming the claim in Lou Ferrigno's book is true, then pre-production for the Hulk/Spider-Man telefilm never got very serious. Why wouldn't the studio want an actor who had then recently played the Hulk on TV with much success?! Especially since they were already involving the star of the short-lived Spider-Man series.
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mr_l_thompson
17 years ago
There were rumors of She-Hulk appearing in one of them. Of course, this was before the image of Brigette Nielson as She-Hulk on the poster surfaced.
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