The script's second draft from February 2000, by Michael France, has some differences: Betty (renamed Betty Garrett) working in a hospital; she and Bruce being in their 20s; Talbot is a Major working under General Ross; Samuel Sterns becoming the Leader; Carl Creel becoming the Absorbing Man; Bruce and Betty going on the run, more Betty and Hulk scenes, and a scene featuring the Grey Hulk. The screenplay has moments of body horror, humor, more action scenes, and pop culture references. There are also nods to the comics: Bruce's full name, "Tales to Astonish," Gamma Base, Bruce's abusive father, Bruce fearing that he shares his dad's temper, Bruce pondering suicide to rid himself of the Hulk, and sequences of the Hulk as the "monster hero" (threatening and saving people). The gammasphere carried over to the final film (though it's 50ft big and suspended from the ceiling in the script), so does the Hulk fighting the Army in the desert, and him growing taller as his rage does. Bruce and Betty fleeing the Army, and a scene of Bruce falling from a great height to force a transformation, with the Hulk's hand emerging from a crater later appeared in L'incredibile Hulk (2008).

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