Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
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Hancock: [comes flying in a leather suit and the police men are looking at him] What? It`s a little tight.
Rail Crossing Crowd #2: I can smell alcohol on your breath!
Hancock: That`s cause I`ve been drinking bitch!
Michel: Asshole.
Hancock: [leans in close to Michel] Call me an asshole one more time.
Michel: Asshole.
Hancock: [grabs Michel and launches him into the sky; turns to chubby kid] You got a problem Thickness?
[chubby kid shakes his head; turns to kid with glasses]
Hancock: How about you Goggles?
[kid with glasses shakes his head]
Boy at Bus Stop: [taps a sleeping Hancock] Hancock!
Boy at Bus Stop: [hits him to wake up]
Boy at Bus Stop: Hancock!
Hancock: What, boy?
Boy at Bus Stop: [points to TV screens] Bad guys.
Hancock: What, you want a cookie? Get the hell out my face.
Boy at Bus Stop: Asshole.
Hancock: What?
Boy at Bus Stop: You heard me.
[repeated line]
Hancock: Call me an asshole one more time.
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.
Hancock: Okay. Well, you should sue McDonald`s, `cause they fucked you up.
Hancock: [to pinned-down cop] Good job! Do I have permission to touch your body?
Female Cop: Yes!
Hancock: It`s not sexual. Not that you`re not an attractive woman. You`re actually a very attractive woman and...
Female Cop: [screaming] Get me the hell out of here!
Asian ganster: [in foreign language] Beat it, Soulja Boy!
Ray Embrey: People should love you. They really should, okay? And I want to deliver that for you. It`s the least that I can do. You`re a superhero. Kids should be running up to you, asking for your autograph, people should be cheering you on the streets...
Hancock: [yelling to crowd of neighbors watching] What the hell you pricks looking at?
Hancock: I gotta wonder what a kind of a bastard I must have been, that nobody was there to claim me. I mean, I am not the most charming guy in the world, so I`ve been told, but... nobody?
Ray Embrey: [shows Hancock a comic book with a picture of a spandex clad superhero on it] What do you think of when you see this?
Hancock: Homo.
Ray Embrey: [shows him another comic with a hero in red spandex] And this?
Hancock: Homo in red.
Ray Embrey: [shows him a third comic with a blonde-haired hero] And this?
Hancock: Norwegian homo.
Criminal: [Hancock arrives on the scene] Damn. Handjob. Where you come from?
Hancock: All right, relax. Just - Just tell me what you need.
Criminal: Tell them cops to turn - Tell `em to take their guns off me. Tell `em to take the guns off of me.
Hancock: [to the cops] Just take them off, guys. Lower your weapons.
Criminal: You gonna get us out of here. With that tight-ass Wolverine outfit on. Now, let`s make it happen, asshole.
Hancock: The way you deal with bullies - you take your right foot, bring it right up and catch him in his little piss pump.
Mary Embrey: You don`t have to do that, honey. Okay? Seriously.
Aaron Embrey: It`s a good idea.
Hancock: You aim straight, make sure he can`t use that thing for nothin` but a flap to keep the dust out of his butt crack.
[an elderly woman in a bar stares at Hancock after seeing a news story featuring him]
Hancock: I`ll break my foot off in your ass, woman...
Hancock: [on Aaron`s learning to deal with bullies] Ah the whole turn the other cheek thing huh?
[pats Aaron`s butt]
Hancock: Just never turn this cheek. Don`t let them punk you.
Hancock: [flying around while carrying SUV full of Asian gangsters] Konnichiwa!
Asian gangster: What? I`m not Japanese, man! Put us down!
Hancock: Oh, now you speak "Engly," huh? "Speak Engly," now?
Mary Embrey: Call me crazy one more time.
Hancock: [to Asian gangsters] If you don`t give yourselves up quietly, I swear to Christ, your head is going up the driver`s ass, his head is going up your ass, and you drew the short stick, cause your head is going up my ass!
Hancock: [after seeing a video of himself throwing Walter, the beached whale, back into the ocean, knocking over a sailboat] I don`t even remember that.
Ray Embrey: Hmmm... Greenpeace does.
[pause]
Ray Embrey: Walter does.
Ray Embrey: Did you shove a man`s head up another man`s ass?
Hancock: [nods]
[repeated line]
Hancock: Good job!
[first lines]
Police Officer: All units. All units. Code 3 pursuit of 2-11 white SUV heading east on Alameda service road. Suspects: three Asian males. Request back-up immediately. Be advised. Shots fired. Shots fired.
Mary Embrey: [referring to Hancock] Did he... just take the whiskey bottle to the bathroom?
Ray Embrey: Do you want him to kill us all?
Ray Embrey: My basic diagnosis of your fundamental problem is... do you want to hear it?
Hancock: No.
Ray Embrey: You`re an asshole. I know. I call it like I see it, though. It`s not a crime to be an asshole, but it`s very counter-productive. Not a crime, but you are an asshole, don`t you think?
Hancock: Be careful.
Ray Embrey: Right now, there`s a DA trying to coming up here and put you in jail.
Hancock: [while eating banana] Bitch can try!
Ray Embrey: I say you go.
Hancock: [confused] Hmm?
Ray Embrey: People take you for granted, you know. We gotta make people miss you. People don`t like you, Hancock.
Aaron Embrey: [yelling from other room] I do!
Hancock: [reading prepared text] I apologize to the people of Los Angeles. My behavior has been improper and I accept the consequences. I ask my fellow Angelinos for their patience and understanding. Life here can be difficult for me. After all, I am the only one of my kind. During my incarceration, I will be participating in alcohol and anger management treatment. You deserve better from me. I can be better. I will be better.
Ray Embrey: So you`ve used the door, the building`s still intact, people are happy you`ve arrived, they feel safe now, there`s an officer there and he`s done a good job, so you might want to tell him he`s done a good job.
Hancock: What the hell did I have to come for Ray if he`s done a good job?
Ray Embrey: [showing Hancock his uniform] For when they call.
Hancock: I ain`t wearing that, Ray.
Ray Embrey: Yes, you are.
Hancock: Oh no, I`m not.
Ray Embrey: No, you are.
Hancock: Actually, I`m not Ray.
Ray Embrey: You think you`re not, but you are.
Hancock: I will fight crime butt-ass naked before I fight it in that, Ray.
Ray Embrey: You know, you have fought naked. We got that. That`s on Youtube.
Hancock: You and I...
Mary Embrey: You and I what?
Hancock: ...we`re the same.
Mary Embrey: No. I`m stronger.
Hancock: Really?
Mary Embrey: [smiling] Oh yeah.
Hancock: Who are we?
Mary Embrey: Gods, angels... Different cultures call us by different names. Now all of a sudden it`s superhero.
Hancock: Are there more of us?
Mary Embrey: There were. They all died. It`s just the two of us.
Mary Embrey: [referring to Hancock] We broke up decades ago. Long before you were born. He just can`t remember.
Ray Embrey: But you can, right? You knew? That`s something you might want to bring up on the first date, Mary. I don`t like to travel, I`m allergic to cats, I`m immortal. Those are like some of the things you might want to give a little heads-up on.
Mary Embrey: Whatever we are, we`re built in twos. We`re drawn together. No matter how far I run, he`s always there! He finds me. It`s physics.
Ray Embrey: Wait, what are you saying? Are you saying you two are fated to be together?
Mary Embrey: I`ve lived for a very long time, Ray. And the one thing I learned - fate doesn`t decide everything. People get to choose.
[about the Allheart symbol printed on the Moon made by Hancock]
Ray Embrey: Will I get in trouble for that?
Hancock: You broke my glasses.
Asian ganster: I`m sorry. Take my Ray Bans!
Mary Embrey: [to Hancock] If Ray ever finds out about me, you`re dead.
Trivia
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The script, originally titled `Tonight, He Comes`, floated around in Hollywood for over a decade.
Warner Bros. passed on the chance to make the film. Sony then stepped in.
The train wreck scene was filmed in San Pedro, CA, in conjunction with Pacific Harbor Line RR. PHL SD18 diesel locomotive #40 was changed by the movie crews to the fictitious Southland & Western RR.
The movie was shown at a US military base in the Middle East a week before it opened in the United States. The screening was free to all US military personnel on base.
When Mary gets ready for bed, she is wearing a Macalester College T-shirt. Director, Peter Berg, graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.
Brad Leland, who plays "Executive #3" at the beginning of the movie (he is the one who appears to be Ray`s boss), was given this small role by director Peter Berg, who had previously cast him on his TV show "Friday Night Lights" (2006).
Will Smith is a huge fan of professional wrestling. He describes Hancock as Steve Austin, one of his favorite wrestlers, with super powers.
Dave Chappelle was seriously considered for the lead.
Shipped to some theaters with the codename `Hidden from Earth`.
The original title was "Tonight, He Comes." It was later retitled "John Hancock", then finally retitled "Hancock".
Will Smith wanted and recommended Aishwarya Rai for the part of Mary Embrey. But she turned down the offer due to scheduling.
Before the film became a Will Smith vehicle, George Clooney, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio (among others) were all considered for the title character over the years.
Shipped to some theaters under the name "Speak Publicly".
Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman play a couple in this movie. They previously acted as a couple in season three of "Arrested Development" (2003).
Director Cameo: [Peter Berg] The film`s Director is one of the doctors who works to revive Mary in the hospital.
Daeg Faerch as Michel, the French boy, did all his own stunts.
The script was first written by Vincent Ngo in 1996 and it languished for close to 10 years. Later, the script was picked up and rewritten by Vince Gilligan, to be directed by Jonathan Mostow for a 2007 release. Gilligan wrote the second draft when Sony picked up the script in early 2005.
When Jonathan Mostow pulled out of the project in May 2006, Gabriele Muccino (who previously directed Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)) was attached in to direct. But while Pursuit was still under editing, Smith switched projects, working on I Am Legend (2007) first before this. However, by October 2006, Muccino left the project due to an incompatibility to the story. This allowed Peter Berg to come in for the director`s job.
Michael Mann and Tony Scott were also considered for the director`s role.
Peter Berg was quoted that he did this movie for the sake of his young son. While editing The Kingdom (2007), his son`s frequent visits in the editing room prompted him to make a comic-book style movie. At that time the script of the film surfaced around for so long and with no director attached, so he jumped at the chance.
The crew estimated that the number of effects shots before shooting was around 300. The final film contains 525 shots.
During Ray`s first PR meeting, the board members are played by various Hollywood producers. Amongst the collective are Akiva Goldsman and Michael Mann. Both have either directed Will Smith or produced movies starring him.
In the Special Features section of the DVD, during the segments filmed for the tornado scene, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz (1939) can be seen running down the sidewalk with her basket in hand. This segment never make it into the final film.
When 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 about twice as tall as everyone else, and looks like a robot. It`s a street performer, on stilts and in costume.
When we see Hancock flying to the scene of the bank robbery, the soundtrack bass notes are rhythmical identical to the repeated bass notes in the theme from Superman (1978).
Hancock is called an "asshole" 18 times. He is almost called "asshole" twice (once by Michel, once by Red in the bank robbery).
Like the TV series "Arrested Development" (2003), Jason Bateman plays a man who becomes romantically involved with Charlize Theron`s character (who isn`t who he thinks she is), after his wife dies, leaving him with a son. Many scenes are set inside a prison. A key character loses a hand and replaces it with a hook device, and there are various references to incest.
SPOILER: The symbol of the eagle would appear to identify Hancock as the Greek god Zeus. This would make the character of Mary Embrey Zeus` wife Hera. According to Greek mythology, Zeus and Hera were not only husband and wife, but also brother and sister; something alluded to, briefly, in the movie.
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Will Smith
(as Hancock)
with Charlize Theron
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