As much as fans have been asking for a solo Hulk movie, the narrative so far has been that since Universal is tangled up in the big screen rights to Hulk, it wasn’t likely to happen. That being said, everyone has seen the result of Sony‘s collaboration with Marvel on “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” so it’s not inconceivable to think that Universal might be warming up to a similar deal. Nothing is official, but the seeds are being planted for Hulk to rage in his own movie.
Mark Ruffalo recently shared that “Thor: Ragnarok” is the first step towards a solo movie, though it does sound like it would still be some way off, if it happened.
“…basically, Kevin [Feige] pulled me aside before this, and said, ‘If you were gonna do a… if we were going to do a standalone Hulk movie, what would it be?’ And I said, ‘I think it should be this, this, this, and this and this, and ends up like this.’ And he’s like, ‘I love that. Why don’t we do that in the next three movies, starting with ‘Thor 3’ and then we go into ‘Avengers 3 and 4.’ ’ And I was like, ‘That sounds great!’ And so we are at the beginning of this arc,” he told CinemaBlend.
Intriguingly, ‘Ragnarok’ will also see Hulk start to evolve a bit, with Bruce Banner starting to bleed into the green monster.
“Hulk speaking is the start to separating of these two individuals, these identities in this split-identity person, and where that’s going to end up going. So it was really interesting to me. He’s like a baby! He’s like a five year old or six year old. So he has the same syntax, he has the same world view, and so it was fun. It’s like Chris [Hemsworth] – we all got to reinvent our characters in this,” Ruffalo added.
So it sounds like a new path is being forged for both Thor and Hulk in the upcoming ‘Ragnarok.’ We’ll see where it goes when the film opens on November 3rd.