Harry here, with AICN's own super-scientist... Copernicus. He's currently in contact with particles and stars and is blowing stuff up in galaxies far from here. He's currently on call for HULK watching! SO here's Copernicus... he's got to get back to his Gamma bomb...
Harry,
Copernicus here. Oh damn that would be cool if they film the HULK here
at Lawrence Berkeley Lab -- the very lab where I work! The lab is on a
hill overlooking Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco. There are around
a hundred buildings up here, doing such things as astrophysics (me), the
Human Genome Project, energy research, particle physics, high energy
physics, really too many things to name.
The building they are talking about using, the Advanced Light Source,
would be perfect. First of all, it is the most distinctive building,
and the symbol for LBL. It is the round building in the pictures. Yes,
that is the Golden Gate Bridge in the background, which would make for a
spectacular establishing shot. On most clear days you can see it much
better than you can in that picture. Plus, the building has a great
history. It used to house the 184 inch cyclotron, where all kinds of
Nobel prize winning research was done (there have been 9 Nobel laureates
from the lab).
But even better than the looks and history of the building is the fact
that what really goes on in there is the kind of stuff that created the
Hulk in the first place! We all know that the Hulk was created when he
was bombarded by gamma rays, and inside that building is the most
advanced X-ray source in the world (X-rays are the next closest thing to
gamma rays in energy). In other words, if there were a real Bruce
Banner, that is where he would work. I do hope they go with the
gamma-ray origins for the Hulk, but I have heard rumors that they might
go with some kind of genetic engineering origin. While that would make
sense from a "fear of the day" standpoint, I think it would ignite
another organic vs. mechanical web shooter type debate. Anyway, we have
genetics research here too, but not in the same building.
I have attached some pictures showing aerial views of LBL looking east
and west, as well as some pictures of some of the equipment inside the
ALS building. There are pieces of machinery like that all over the
place, so they might not even have to build much of a set. There is
more about what it looks like inside the ALS here:
CLICK HERE
-Copernicus
