Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste<\/p>\n
Just the other day\u2014amidst trying to work out exactly how delusional Jeremy Renner\u2019s being with his apparently rock-solid belief that he\u2019ll star in a second season of Hawkeye\u00a0one of these days<\/a>\u2014we ran the math on which of the original Avengers from The Avengers\u00a0had most recently showed up (as their character) in a Marvel project. The answer, unsurprisingly, was Mark Ruffalo, who\u2014not having ever gotten a standalone Hulk\u00a0movie of his own\u2014has been pretty happy over the years to pop up in other heroes\u2019 films and TV shows, including a 2022 appearance in She-Hulk. It\u2019s a trend that\u2019s set to continue, too, as THR\u00a0reports today<\/a> that Ruffalo has signed on to Hulk out in next year\u2019s\u00a0Spider-Man: Brand New Day.<\/p>\n It\u2019s somewhat surprising news, given that this film\u2014to the extent it\u2019s been described at all\u2014has been mostly discussed as a back-to-basics turn for Tom Holland\u2019s Peter Parker, who was at the center of a whole bunch of reality-hopping\/mind-wiping shenanigans in his last cinematic appearance<\/a>. Now, though, you\u2019ve got the Big Green Rage Monster\u00a0and\u00a0Jon Bernthal\u2019s Punisher crowding in<\/a>, even as we have no basic idea of what Spidey\u2019s going to be doing in the movie. (Although we do have at least one clue, as the same report that included Ruffalo\u2019s casting also notes that\u00a0Better Call Saul\u2018s Michael Mando is set to reprise his briefly-glimpsed role as classic\u00a0Spider-Man\u00a0villain Scorpion from\u00a0Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/a>.)<\/p>\n To be fair, Ruffalo\u2019s casting\u00a0does\u00a0play into one of the background themes of the existing Holland Spider-Man\u00a0movies\u2014i.e., Peter\u2019s endless efforts to audition various dads from amongst the franchise\u2019s heavier hitters. At the same time, though, it runs smack into a version of the MCU that\u2019s struggled to balance the need to set up new characters with the fact that it can\u2019t kill off, like, everybody\u00a0just because some of the old contracts expired; the fact that the film\u2014scheduled for July 2026\u2014is the last\u00a0Marvel movie to come out before Joe and Anthony Russo blow up whatever they\u2019re planning to blow up with next December\u2019s Avengers: Doomsday only raises even more question marks about where Hulk and Spidey are going to fit into the haphazardly ongoing narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste Just the other day\u2014amidst trying to work…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-39371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}