Variety caught up with Mark Ruffalo following Disney's live-action panel at D23 on Saturday and asked the actor about the possibility of playing The Hulk in a solo movie. Now, we've known for a while now that the rights to the Jade Giant are somehow caught up at Universal Pictures and that the character can only appear in Marvel Studios movies like Thor: Ragnarok providing it's as a supporting character.
"I wanna make just one thing perfectly clear today, a standalone Hulk movie will never happen," he says in the video below with a sly smile on his face. Asked why, he added: "For some reason they don't know how to play well with Marvel," and "because they don't want to make money," referring to Universal, who holds the rights to a Hulk standalone film. However, is he being entirely honest?
Probably, because it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for Ruffalo to throw Universal under the bus if they're secretly working with Marvel on a Hulk movie, but in the second video interview below, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige says "never say never" when it comes to the movie becoming a reality, so we'll have to wait and see! What do you guys think? Share your thoughts in the usual place.