{"id":90939,"date":"2025-10-19T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/90939\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:57:07","slug":"hulk-actor-mark-ruffalo-shares-an-update-on-solo-movie-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/90939\/","title":{"rendered":"HULK Actor Mark Ruffalo Shares An Update On Solo Movie Discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to forget now, but\u00a0The Incredible Hulk\u00a0was right there alongside\u00a0Iron Man\u00a0in 2008 when the Marvel Cinematic Universe\u00a0launched. The movie was neither a huge hit nor a massive flop, but given the tepid response to the reboot and behind-the-scenes issues with actor Edward Norton, it soon became the franchise&#8217;s black sheep.<\/p>\n<p>Rights issues also came into play, and it wasn&#8217;t until 2022&#8217;s\u00a0She-Hulk: Attorney at Law\u00a0that\u00a0The Incredible Hulk\u00a0was referenced in a\u00a0meaningful way (this February&#8217;s Captain America: Brave New World brought back The Leader, albeit to a mixed response).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After taking over the role from Norton in 2012&#8217;s\u00a0The Avengers, Ruffalo&#8217;s Bruce Banner\u00a0has become an MCU mainstay, appearing in that franchise and later everything from\u00a0Thor: Ragnarok\u00a0to\u00a0Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings\u00a0and next summer&#8217;s Spider-Man: Brand New Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What we haven&#8217;t had is a solo Hulk movie. It&#8217;s no secret that complicated rights issues are in play, and Ruffalo once again commented on that in a fascinating career retrospective with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jV7L7BYulF8&amp;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GQ<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not really owned by Marvel,&#8221; the actor reiterated.\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s a Universal property. I don&#8217;t\u00a0know if it\u2019ll ever really come to be, honestly. We keep talking about it, what it would be.&#8221; If Universal Pictures has distribution rights, then\u00a0Disney being reluctant to essentially produce a movie for the competition isn&#8217;t a shock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>World War Hulk, World War Hulks, and Hulk vs. Wolverine are just some of the projects rumoured to be on the horizon for Ruffalo, but Marvel Studios has yet to make anything official. We also don&#8217;t know whether the MCU can even use &#8220;Hulk&#8221; in a movie&#8217;s title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When we last saw Bruce Banner, his arm had healed after the events of\u00a0Avengers: Endgame. After helping train his cousin, Jennifer Walters\/She-Hulk, the Green Goliath met his son, Skaar. Unfortunately, that character&#8217;s brief introduction in the\u00a0She-Hulk: Attorney at Law\u00a0finale didn&#8217;t receive the warmest response\u00a0from fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asked recently what he likes about being part of a long-running superhero franchise, Ruffalo said,\u00a0&#8220;Just having the continuity. As an actor, you&#8217;re going from one extreme situation to the next. You make these tight-knit groups and then break apart, and rarely ever do you have the type of continuity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never thought I would have a real, legit, steady job. [Being an Avenger] is my steady job,&#8221;\u00a0he continued.\u00a0&#8220;Each movie you do is kind of a different universe, especially if you&#8217;re working with different directors. What I love about Marvel is that they really do let the director create a whole other world. You go from The Avengers to Thor: Ragnarok. They&#8217;re extremely different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full interview with Ruffalo in the player below.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s easy to forget now, but\u00a0The Incredible Hulk\u00a0was right there alongside\u00a0Iron Man\u00a0in 2008 when the Marvel Cinematic Universe\u00a0launched.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,51616,61,60,22219,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-90939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hulk","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mark-ruffalo","13":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}