There was as soon as a time—earlier than Thor: Love And Thunder and earlier than there was an entire Ant-Man trilogy—when Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk was thought to be probably the most forgettable entry within the Marvel Cinematic Universe canon (and never simply because they recast the principle character for The Avengers, making its standing in canon questionable for a time). But now, Leterrier has opened up about what was being mentioned for a possible Incredible Hulk 2, and it seems like we might’ve had an entire bunch of a distinct coloured Hulks working round.
Speaking with ComicBook, Leterrier stated there was a “complete sequel” deliberate that may’ve concerned completely different sorts of Hulks: “There was like Grey Hulk, Red Hulks—there was loads of good things that we have been planning.” For those that don’t observe the Hulk lore, Grey Hulk might imply just a few various things, like the unique model of the character earlier than Stan Lee and Jack Kirby formally settled on inexperienced, or a extra clever model of the character who wore a hat and labored as a mobster.
Red Hulks are much more difficult, with probably the most well-known one being the Hulked-out model of General “Thunderbolt” Ross, the man who hates the Hulk greater than anybody has hated a Hulk. There was additionally one other man who became a Red Hulk with a mustache. Both retained their intelligence after reworking, not like Bruce Banner’s common Hulk, which might recommend that they’re the superior Hulks if not for the truth that he’s been well-known for many years and so they’re simply also-rans (Harrison Ford will supposedly seem as a Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World, which is cool).
Of course, whereas Leterrier is form of framing this as an “oh, what may need been!” factor, the reality is that an Incredible Hulk sequel would’ve all the time been a really powerful promote. Marvel was nonetheless taking an enormous danger with its motion pictures on the time, and even in a world the place Hulk was a much bigger hit than Iron Man, Universal managed (and nonetheless controls) the distribution rights for any solo Hulk motion pictures. So, since Disney purchased Marvel Entertainment in 2009, they might’ve needed to get transferring on an Incredible Hulk 2 fairly quick to get it out earlier than that.
So yeah, we missed an opportunity to see completely different colours of Hulk, however now we’re going to see them anyway.
