Saw “Hulk” last night (great flick!) and was impressed by the array of modern weoponry they throw at him, like Comanches and F-22s.
There were also some “M1s,” but they looked like Centurions or Chieftains dressed up like M1s.
I recall hearing something about such fake “M1s” created for the film “Courage Under Fire,” and was wondering if these might be the same vehicles.
For those of you who have seen “Hulk” and have any idea of what I am talking about, what do you think?
Haven’t seen the movie yet but from what I’ve seen from the ads the tanks look like they are CGI like most of the stuff in the film, but as I haven’t seen it yet I can’t realy say. Be funny if they were the Centurions out of “Courage Under Fire” be an Aussie actor and Aussie armour.
I saw the Hulk a few weeks back, and the tracks did’nt look like either the old style or the newer style Abrams tracks. I’m guessing they were at one time, some other type of tanks built up and around to make them look like M1’s. panzeriv most of the scenes with the M1s are CGI, but there are a few with ‘real’ tanks.
they looked like m1a1’s to me
I havent seen Hulk yet… but maybe they stuck an M1 Turret on another tanks modified chassie… like they did in Kellys Heros… They stuck a Tiger 1 tank Turret on a modified T34 Chassie. just a thought
Word on the street is they used Centurions dressed to look like the Abrams just like they did in Courage Under Fire. Tank is way too small in the movie. I’m planning to do a diorama of one of those fake Abrams, I picked up a Hasegawa M1E1 to mate with another tank.
Yeah, the tracks and what you see of the running gear sure looks like Centurion gear. Even the CG stuff was the same, I think. I’ll have top check it out again.
Good to know you can swing an M1 around by the tube and toss it a klik or two and still have the crew walk away from it!
http://www.s-t.com/daily/08-96/08-05-96/c06ae079.htm
Here’s a very interesting (short) article about CUF and making movies with Armor in general, and about military suport in making movies.
I like this part. Typical Movie logic. Spend $1m on a prop. Make $100m on the movie. Sell prop for $100k. buy back prop for $2m in five years to make another movie. The Pentagon could take lessons from Hollywierd about wasting money.