![]() By all accounts, Norton was very hands-on with this movie, and he did an uncredited rewrite of the script and he reportedly participated in the editing process as well. Ed Norton was chosen to portray Bruce Banner/Hulk, while Lou Ferrigno, the star of the ’70s Incredible Hulk TV series, provided Hulk’s voice in the film. ![]() Ed Norton: The MCU’s First HulkĪs part of Marvel’s drive to make its own movies, the studio went after established stars to headline their films. But given the recent arrival of the other Spider-Man movies on Disney+, Far From Home and No Way Home will probably arrive down the line. ![]() This leaves Spider-Man: Far From Home and Spider-Man: No Way Home as the only MCU movies that aren’t on Disney+. Disney isn’t wasting any time putting up the movie, and for the first time, the second film in the MCU is now on Disney+. However, Deadline is reporting that Universal’s distribution rights to The Incredible Hulk have expired since the film has just reached its 15th anniversary. This is why it’s been on other streaming platforms instead of Disney+. Marvel and Universal were able to come to terms for this film in return for the former maintaining the movie’s distribution rights. Because Universal had produced and released Ang Lee’s Hulk movie in 2003, the studio retained the cinematic rights to the character at a time when Marvel was just beginning to make its big screen plans. Have you ever wondered why The Incredible Hulk wasn’t on Disney+ before now? It’s because this movie was produced by Universal Pictures and Marvel Studios a year before Disney purchased Marvel in 2009. Looking for more sci-fi comedy? Check out SYFY's Resident Alien, which is rolling out new episodes every Wednesday and can be watched next-day on Peacock.The Incredible Hulk has arrived on Disney+ New episodes of She-Hulk drop, perhaps with future Banner cameos, Wednesdays on Disney+. That’s really interesting to me, and I do feel like there is some interest in exploring that down the line." I do think that the trip to Sakaar is a good place to start and what that means to the idea of what the fans have been asking for - this idea of Planet Hulk or World War Hulk or just the journey that Banner and Hulk have to make to come to peace with each other. It’s really an interesting, exciting part of the Hulk story and Banner story. "I think maybe we’ve given four sentences to that time period since then. "There has been some conversations about what happened in the two years where Hulk abandoned Banner and the Avengers, and the emergence of Smart Hulk, which hasn’t ever fully been answered," Ruffalo said. Whatever it's pointing towards, though, Ruffalo's on board. Now, Banner's officially off-planet again, but we don't yet know why, and we also don't know how that story might factor into the future of the MCU. The first two episodes of She-Hulk set up a plot point in which a ship from Sakaar - the planet where Banner spent a couple of years as a gladiator in the lead-up to Thor: Ragnarok - stopped by Earth and eventually got him to come along on some kind of cosmic voyage. ![]() I’m like, OK, the 67-year-old Hulk, that would be interesting - if all of us are still here making movies and there’s a world that allows for us to do that anymore."Īs for what's up in the near future for Banner, Ruffalo's not sure, or if he is, he's not telling. I mean, you know, when you look at the comics, there’s some pretty grizzled, old versions of him. I mean, I’ll probably do it as long as they’ll have me, if people are interested, and I can bring something that’s interesting to me to it, and interesting to the fans. I keep waiting for the next version of it. "I mean, me and Ed Norton joke that the Hulk is like our generation’s Hamlet - we’re all going to get a shot at it. "I’m always surprised that I’m still here," Ruffalo said. According to the Oscar-nominated star, it's not really a matter of when he's going to leave Banner behind it's a matter of how many different versions of Banner he can ultimately portray. In a new interview with Variety to promote his guest-starring role in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Ruffalo addressed his MCU longevity, which has progressed beyond a co-starring role in Avengers: Endgame to a cameo at the end of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and now his first major Disney+ appearance. Jackson's Nick Fury, Jon Favreau's Happy Hogan, Chris Hemsworth's Thor, and Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye, he's now one of the longest-serving stars in a rapidly shifting megafranchise, and he doesn't see himself stopping anytime soon. In the 10 years since, half of that original six-person team has moved on from the MCU in one way or another, but Ruffalo has stuck around. A decade ago this past spring, Marvel Studios assembled the Avengers on the big-screen for the first time, and debuted Mark Ruffalo as the new Marvel Cinematic Universe incarnation of Bruce Banner. ![]()
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