Why wont they make a sequel????

This film underperformed at the box office, so they've apparently taken a hiatus or something from solo Hulk movies. So it might be a long time before we get the Hulk battling the Leader. And even then, with a new actor in the role, I wouldn't be surprised if the next one is another sort of reboot with a new Betty Ross and everything. Which is a shame, because I liked Liv Tyler in the role.

Until then, we probably have to settle with AVENGERS movies, and the occasional cameo. I do wish the Hulk could have a supporting role in another film, though. I'd love to see the Hulk in CAPTAIN AMERICA 3 or THOR 3 for instance.


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A dumb Hulk is OK in the comic books, but in a movie, he needs some smarts (both as Banner and as the Hulk) to carry a feature length film. If I was the producer of the next Hulk movie, I'd turn him into the Professor Hulk or at least Joe Fixit. Ruffalo (Banner) could do the Hulk's voice, deepened, of course.

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Hulk Does Not Smash Box Office

Generally, when you bring this up, the first thing out of people’s mouths is a claim that 2003’s Hulk was too arty and too slow for audiences, and that a big mainstream Hulk movie with lots of action and CGI eye candy would be a massive hit.

What’s forgotten is that Marvel already tried that. After Ang Lee’s movie came out, Marvel reconfigured, started building a new Marvel universe, and, of course, released The Incredible Hulk, a big mainstream Hulk movie with lots of action and CGI eye candy. And, factoring in inflation, it… made almost exactly the same amount of money as the 2003 movie!

Would the Hulk benefit from an Avengers bump? Sure, probably, but not as much as other characters making a lot more money. And that leads to a few more complicated problems with the character.

The Hulk Is All About Denial

Part of the reason nerds hate the one Hulk movie and kinda like the other but aren’t torn up that Edward Norton wasn’t in The Avengers is that the Hulk is a crappy character for a movie. The entire movie, in both cases, was predicated on Banner trying to not be the Hulk.

This is a problem when your movie is built on people showing up to see the Hulk. Horror movies can get away with teasing their audience for forty minutes: Big action movies can’t. There’s also the small problem of the fact that the Hulk costs a lot of money to show, and whoever is playing Bruce Banner is much cheaper, so guess who’s onscreen more?

It was even a huge problem in the comics, which mostly got around it by deciding to either have Banner hulked out all the time or have the Hulk follow him around as a psychic projection or something. There’s a reason that, originally, Banner hulked out when the sun set; it forced him to become the Hulk whether he wanted to or not.

Nobody Wants To Hang Out With The Hulk

Finally, there’s the problem of Bruce Banner, a man who commits enormous amounts of property damage whenever he experiences stress. In real life, you’d be scared of Bruce. People like Bruce Banner tend to show up on police blotters a lot. Part of the reason Ang Lee’s movie tanked so hard with nerds was the fact that he actually tried to explain just why Bruce was such a tightly-wound repressed ball of rage, because there aren’t a lot of good options here.

And he can’t want to be the Hulk all the time because that both denies what makes the character interesting and makes him kind of scary, leading us right back to the above problem. Audiences have limited taste for hanging out with homicidal maniacs, no matter how much Mark Millar tries to make that happen.

Hulk Sad

There’s certainly the possibility of a Hulk cartoon, and a good screenwriter can crack these issues. Or they could just make Planet Hulk, although Marvel has, for now, ruled that one out. But the Jade Giant arguably only works on film when he’s on a team and beating on Asgardians, and maybe that should be good enough for us all.

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