Kevin Feige On What Marvel Studios Wants To Explore With The HULK

Again, look at what Waid is doing for Hulk right now in the books!

Forget Planet Hulk.
We already saw John Carter.

If he goes through that phase where Banner's mind is stuck in Hulk's body for a while, that could be interesting.

I would LOVE a Hulk film!!!

I would actually really like a Defenders film too with Hulk teaming up with Doctor Strange, Silver Surfer, and Namor (possibly Valkyrie as well) to face a darker threat that the Avengers can't be pulled into. That'd be a fun movie...

Finally, some updates on Hulk after a disappointing weekend watching Iron Crap 3.



Love to see a solo Hulk movie and excited to see Ruffalo reprise his role as banner/Hulk.

btw, in case no one is aware, for the record since Ruffalo appeared in the IM3 after credit scene he becomes the first motion picture actor to play Bruce Banner in two films.

LEVITIKUZ@

Amen to that!

Hulk2008 ya thats true!

@noomis

I know man, I know...
It was an okay movie, but just okay.

No planet HULK!!!!!! Unless it can be setup without him being betrayed bye Tony! No illuminate thread either maybe the MOE could do it to setup a HULK less Avengers for Thanos in A3 with somehow the World War Hulk mashed with Thanos in A3??? &.........Bye the way the "Twist" wasn't that bad. I wish he wouldn't have been a decoy & its was true to the comics but I believed it worked & easily could setup his return!?!?!? TREVOR 2015!!!!!!! TREVOR ......TREVOR ........TREVOR! PHASE 2 HAS BEGUN

IRONMAN 3 = B+
Mandarin before twist = A+
Mandarin after the twist = C
Trevor becoming the Mandrain in a future movie done right = PRICELESS

Actually, they already featured some magic in Thor.

The Incredible Hulk: Not a Therapist

I really don't think Hulk can carry his own movie. We've had two Hulk movies, one of which was terrible, the other which was mediocre.

Both failed movies had A-list actors, and great CGI (relative for the time they were released), and solid enough directors (Ang Lee obviously being 100x better than Lettier even though Lee's Hulk was 100x worse).

Also, the only interesting Hulk-solo outings I've ever enjoyed were the animated movies Planet Hulk, and Hulk vs. Both of which had external Marvel characters as important characters in it. Planet Hulk had Beta Ray Bill, and Hulk vs was against Thor and Wolverine.

Hulk is just not interesting on his own for the most part. He's more interesting in relation to other heroes.

@Nomis

"Iron Man 3 would've been the perfect springboard for this dimension in the MCU if you would've gave us an accurate portrayal of the Mandarin."

A movie about a hero based around SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY would have been the wrong movie to introduce magic in.

Personally, I think that what they did with The Mandarin was to take what was a monstrously outdated racial stereotype and make him into something far more relevant in modern socio-political terms, inasmuch as what you'd see on the news as fact is there to create a false truth and to remove you from the inequities being thrust upon you, and is not what is actually the truth. Fox News, I'm looking at YOU.

The thing that struck me the most in his comments regarding The Hulk was the use of the word 'fun'. There is a deep wellspring of fun to be had with this rage-monster's interactions with the characters around him and it would be remiss of Marvel not to exploit the comedic values of this. The anxiety and trauma of the Banner/Hulk dynamic has been laid bare in two films already and the strength of Marvel Studios' output since then has been the mix of drama and comedy. The Incredible Hulk is a great film but wallowed in its portentous psycho-drama and probably has as few jokes in it as The Bible, which does not make for profitable all-round entertainment.

I don't care what comes next. I love these Marvel characters and I grew up, sorry - grew older - reading about them and all the characters they'd interact with. What's important is that thy are treated well onscreen and continue to entertain us in the way that Marvel Studios' films have done since the first Iron Man.

Let's have some FUN!

I just started reading Indestructable Hulk today and I'm already enjoying it. Mark Waid is quickly becoming my favorite writer.

I would love a good Hulk movie! They have the right actor now. Let's go with an equally incredible script.

I don't see why they couldn't have made it so the *real* Mandarin was still out there. IM3 was ambiguous as to whether or not the Ten Rings organization was created by AIM or just co-opted by Aldritch.

I want Planet Hulk. Remember they have lied before so yeah I wouldn't say it's impossible to happen.

I'd say they are trying to back track a bit and say it isn't so that people will be all surprised and forget that it was actually leaked. Or they could be totally be doing something different for Hulk but yeah. I still want Planet Hulk and WWH. Seriously fantastic story...

And for those worried, Hulk is NOT the villain in WWH.

HULK SMASH!!!!

@KryptonianAbominationClone - I didn't say that the Mandarin was racist, that's your own interpretation. The FACT is, when the character was conceived, he was depicted as a racial stereotype that is now generally accepted as abhorrent by all right-minded people who possess the intellectual capacity to recognise it as such

I'm old enough to have been reading Iron Man when Don Heck was drawing it, so I've still very vivid memories of those 'yellow peril' archetypes and trust me, they do not sit well with today's standards of decency.