Hancock is a superhero whose ill-considered behavior regularly causes damage in the millions. He changes when the person he saves helps him improve his public image.Hancock is a superhero whose ill-considered behavior regularly causes damage in the millions. He changes when the person he saves helps him improve his public image.Hancock is a superhero whose ill-considered behavior regularly causes damage in the millions. He changes when the person he saves helps him improve his public image.
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- 4 wins & 14 nominations
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- TriviaThe original screenplay was much darker. Apart from being a low-life, Hancock was supposed to be sexually frustrated because he couldn't have sex with a woman without killing her. The MPAA actually cleared a scene involving Hancock's explosive orgasm, but it was removed from the final cut because a test audience didn't find it funny. The tone was lightened considerably for a summer release aimed at a wide audience, but the MPAA gave the film an R twice before language and violence cuts resulted in a PG-13.
- GoofsWhen the people are running away from the tornadoes, suddenly a strange character runs from the left to the right of the screen. The character is twice as tall as everyone else, and looks like a robot or an alien. It may be a street performer, on stilts and in costume.
- Quotes
John Hancock: All of you people, blocking the intersection, you're all idiots.
Rail Crossing Crowd #1: You're the one that threw the dude's car at her. And what's with the train?
Rail Crossing Crowd #2: Why didn't you just go straight up in the air with the car? You've obviously injured that poor woman.
Rail Crossing Crowd #3: She's right. She should sue you.
John Hancock: Okay. Well, you should sue McDonald's, 'cause they fucked you up.
- Crazy creditsA scene after the credits start to roll.
- Alternate versionsAn extended cut was released on DVD and Blu-Ray featuring several additional and modified scenes. The additional scenes include, but are not limited to: Hancock bringing a girl to his trailer to have sex, Mary Embrey driving to Hancock's trailer instead of flying there, and Hancock getting off a prison bus while chained to other prisoners whom he drags behind him.
- SoundtracksWhammer Jammer
Written by Stephen Bladd, J. Geils (as John Geils Jr.), Seth Justman, Daniel Klein, Magic Dick (as Richard Salwitz), and Peter Wolf
Performed by The J. Geils Band
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
- Look, I have an idea. Let's make a Superman flick, but instead of everybody liking this Superman-like character, everyone could, like, hate him.
- Hmm.. interesting. But why would they hate him? Is he a villain or something?
- No, no. He is..well.. a jerk. He still catches bad guys and stuff, but he, like, insults people, creates a lot of collateral damage.. you know. A jerk.
- I like it, I like it. He's like a superhero dr. House or something, right?
- Right. Only less witty and more bitter. We can also make him a drunk.
- Well... I dunno if it would fly. Perhaps if we could get Will Smith to do the role. People dig Will Smith.
- I'm with you there. Will Smith, flying around, insulting people.. man, this will be great!
- Right. But we have to go with it somewhere, we can't just let him do superhero stuff while being a jerk, this would get old pretty fast. How about he somehow gets involved with a PR specialist, who will, like, try to improve his public image?
- Great idea! And wait..wait.. what if we get that Michael Bluth guy from Arrested Development to play, umm... Michael Bluth the PR guy?
-Terrific! We're seriously up to something. Let's write!
(scrib scrib scrib... hours pass..)
- Congrats, we have a hit! Let's celebrate!
- I'll get the champagne!
- Umm hold on just a minute...
- What?
- I just realized.. this script is only good for about 45 minutes of the movie! Hour tops!
- Oh no! What can we do? Can we pad it a little?
- No! It's unpaddable! I even added a female lead as Michael Bluth's wife, it still only added about 5 minutes of the movie. Nope, sorry. This is a dud.
- Oh come on...
- Look, look..perhaps we can think of something. Think, think...how do we further the story along, put in, like, some kind of a twist...
- They are all dead or something?
- No, no.. how about..
(scrib scrib.. hours pass)
- Hmmm... I don't think this will work. No chance.
- Why?
- Just look at it! It's stupid, insultingly illogical, and the ending.. it's horrible. Look, I've greenlighted Jaws 4, so I know what I'm talking about.
- But, but.. Will Smith.. Bluth guy.. maybe we can get Charlize for the wife...
- I know! But this stuff... it.. just does not make any sense! The second half is nothing like the first half. It kills the movie!
- Yeah, perhaps we should just rewrite the whole thing..but..know what?
- What?
- Remember "I am legend"? With Will Smith?
- Yeees....
- That one also had a great first half, right?
- Yes. The first half was good.
- And the second half royally sucked, right?
- Riiight...
- And it still was a success, right?
- I see.. what you're saying is that a Will Smith flick can have a great first half, idiotic second half and still come out a winner?
- Exactly!
- Well it IS kind of late and I'm kinda tired.. What gives, let's do it. Although it *does* sound kinda hancock to me. Btw, how do we call this thing?
- baba44713
- Jul 10, 2008
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- John Hancock
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- Budget
- $150,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $227,946,274
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $62,603,879
- Jul 6, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $629,443,428
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1