The Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier has revealed there were plans for a sequel.
During an interview with Comicbook.com, the filmmaker confirmed an Incredible Hulk sequel was being planned as part of the MCU. “Yeah, there was like a whole sequel,” he said, adding that the scrapped sequel would have introduced some classic variations of the Hulk to the big screen. “There was like Grey Hulk, Red Hulks – there was a lot of good stuff that we were planning.”
Unfortunately, he didn’t add any additional details, but Leterrier did discuss the difficulty in recreating the different versions of Marvel’s Hulk. “Hulk is a complex character within the Marvel Universe,” he admitted. “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.”
Of course, Smart Hulk was introduced to the MCU in Avengers: Endgame, five years after the snap. During this time, it’s revealed that Banner was able to merge his intelligence with the Hulk’s physical strength, combining both elements into the Smart Hulk we know and love.
However, the MCU is still yet to introduce a Red Hulk… at least, for now. The upcoming Thunderbolts movie will star Harrison Ford as General Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross, with fans speculating he could even Hulk out as the classic comic book Red Hulk.
Either way, it sounds as though the current MCU’s take on the Hulk is very different from what Leterrier originally envisioned. “That was the fun of where I was in my movie, with the access to consciousness and all that stuff,” he said. “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’.”
IGN’s The Incredible Hulk review gave it 8/10 and said: “The Incredible Hulk is exactly what it should be: An all-out action romp that resets the comic book icon's big screen continuity and paves the way for future installments (both in the Hulk franchise, as well as in that of the Avengers) in the newly unified Marvel movie universe.”
Want to read more about Marvel’s Hulk? Check out The Incredible Hulk now it’s finally on Disney+ and find out how the She-Hulk season finale could affect Bruce Banner’s MCU future.
Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
