Louis Leterrier has revealed that there were plans then for an epic sequel that shows other types of Hulk.
“Yeah there was, like, a whole sequel,” Leterrier said in an interview with Comicbook.com, adding that the scrapped film would have featured variations of the Hulk. “There was, like, Grey Hulk, Red Hulks — there was a lot of good stuff that we were planning.”
Edward Norton starred in Marvel Studios’ take on the life of Dr. Bruce Banner. But the said film has not influenced the following MCU films that came forward. In 2012’s The Avengers, they tapped Mark Ruffalo to be the green Goliath.
“Hulk is a complex character within the Marvel Universe,” Letterier explained. “You want the primeval Hulk… the rage Hulk. And then when you go Grey Hulk and Smart Hulk you lose that a little bit and you get a little bit more kiddish with it.”
Inside the MCU, there are a few changes that happened with the green guy. After the events of 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, Dr. Banner went into Hulk mode for 2 years until 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok. Then in 2019, events between Infinity War and Endgame, the scientist made an effort to mix the Hulk’s strong physique and his intelligence with the Smart Hulk. That last iteration of the green hero returned in the Disney+ action-comedy series ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’.
Leterrier then admitted in the interview that there was a dichotomy between Ruffalo’s Hulk – between the Smart Hulk persona and his vision for the character’s future.
“But that was the fun of where I was in my movie, with the access to consciousness and all that stuff. That was really fun. And that’s what I was aiming to do,” Leterrier explained. “But take my time with it. Because there’s so many characters they want it all fast. I like ‘She-Hulk,’ but then, you know, yoga between Hulk and… I was like ‘Okay! Yeah, we’re very far from my Hulk.’”
Maybe we’re far from Leterrier’s take on the green Goliath. But let’s see in the near future if Marvel Studios will cook something up for it. We’ll maybe see the Red Hulk in the 4th Captain America film or we might get a Hulk solo film based on the World War Hulk comic series – in spite of Skaar’s (son of Dr. Banner from Planet Sakar) introduction in the She-Hulk series finale episode.
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