“I want to make one thing perfectly clear today,” Ruffalo said. “A stand-alone Hulk movie will never happen because Universal has the rights to the stand-alone Hulk movie and, for some reason, they don’t know how to play well with Marvel. And clearly they don’t like money. But I feel like I have two or three years before I’m too old to play the Hulk.
“We’ve talked about it and I just don’t see it in the cards.”
Mark Ruffalo confirms he’ll never be in a stand-alone Hulk movie, calls out Universal
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Universals Ego is too big after that year they scored big with Fast 6 and Jurassic Park
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I don’t recall those first two Hulk movies setting any records for Universal Mark. Get over yourself.
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This uh… this is true…
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Which is why they should give him back over to Marvel. No point in keeping him if you’re not going to use him.
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If Disney wanted the rights to this character they would provide Universal with an offer they couldn’t refuse. The financial reality is Incredible Hulk barely outgrossed Hulk. There’s no money in a solo film.
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And after they pay for the rights how much money do they make off the movie?
That and this silly little tidbit: Lowest grossing Marvel Cinematic Universe film by a large margin. Put any spin you want on it, that’s the truth.
Besides, they seem more interested in “team up” movies for established characters now anyway.
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There was no money for it in 2008. Ever since the first Avengers, Hulk has always been an audience favorite. In a post Avengers superhero movie age where something like Guardians has made huge bank, I don’t see any reality where a new solo Hulk film makes less than $700 million. Based off of how Thor Ragnarok does I’m almost willing to bet Universal and Marvel will start talking.
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Actually Marvel have the rights back – to make it, but Universal still have distribution rights. Meaning that Marvel have to give first rights to distribute to Universal (making them a heap of free money & losing Marvel a heap).
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A confusing situation. Doesn’t surprise me that Ruffalo would be confused as well.
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Shame. Aside from Spidey he’s my favorite Avenger. Loved The Incredible Hulk.
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And cast Ed Norton to confuse people even more.
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That would be a huge “Fuck you” to Marvel Studios. And I think Norton would love to do it too.
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What?! No way!
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NO one wants a Hulk movie, he’s not a good enough character
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I wouldn’t go that far. I just don’t think that, after working out the rights financially, there’s any profit in it.
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I don’t think Hulk translates well to the big screen
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