It has taken a long time, but filmmaker Louis Leterrier’s early MCU entry “The Incredible Hulk” is finally getting some acknowledgement.
The movie finally made its way to the Disney+ service recently, whilst the upcoming “Captain America: Brave New World” will see two characters returning (Betty Ross, The Leader) after being absent since the 2008 film.
To this day, the film is considered one of the weakest, and certainly one of the most ignored plot-wise, entries in the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
However Leterrier tells ComicBook.com that extensive plans were in place for a sequel at one point – one that would’ve introduced various versions of Hulk:
“Yeah there was like a whole sequel. There was like Grey Hulk, Red Hulks – there was a lot of good stuff that we were planning. Hulk is a complex character within the Marvel Universe. 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.”
Leterrier says the Hulk the MCU has evolved to now is very different from the one his first film and the planned sequel took with the character – especially Mark Ruffalo’s more recent Smart Hulk take in films and “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law”:
“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. But take my time with it. Because there’s so many characters they want it all fast [laughs]. I like She-Hulk, but then you know, yoga between Hulk and… I was like ‘Okay! yeah, we’re very far from my Hulk.'”
“The Incredible Hulk” is now streaming on the Disney+ service.
