Despite the apparent death of the Hulk in the 1990 film, another Hulk television movie was planned, "Revenge of the Incredible Hulk". It was rumored that in this film the Hulk would be able to talk after being revived with Banner's mind, and that it was abandoned due to Bill Bixby's death of cancer in November 1993, but Gerald Di Pego (writer/executive producer of "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk", "The Death of the Incredible Hulk", and "Revenge of the Incredible Hulk") revealed that the film was cancelled before Bixby's health began to decline, due to disappointing ratings for "Death of", and that Banner was to have been revived without the ability to change into the Hulk at all, only reverting to (still non-speaking) Hulk form in the film's final act.