On Sunday night the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl, but the power outage during the game wasn’t the only thing buzzing on the Internet. New information for what could potentially become the next Hulk film was reportedly released by Latino Review. They claim the film will be released sometime after The Avengers 2 and will be a part of Marvel’s Phase Three strategy. The storyline suggests that members of a secret organization known as The Illuminati, which is comprised of Marvel heroes such as Tony Stark, Professor X, and Reed Richards, decide that the Hulk is too unstable and unsafe to remain on earth. So they decide to banish him to space and he ends up a slave on an alien world known as Sakaar. He becomes a gladiator and eventually becomes the leader of a rebellion.
The comic series of which this story is based off was called Planet Hulk and was written by Greg Pak. Pak has become the quintessential Hulk writer over the last decade and it’s probable that he will have some involvement in this new adaptation of the classic green monster. The real question is who will be selected as the director of this bold new approach to the Hulk?
Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk was somewhat well received and made a profit, but it featured Edward Norton’s awkward performance as Bruce Banner. Mark Ruffalo replaced Norton when it came time to cast for The Avengers, so it is likely that Disney/Marvel will want to start fresh with a new director to accompany Ruffalo, who is signed on for at least six films. If Leterrier isn’t chosen as the director, who should be responsible to create a new Hulk movie that features the character betrayed by his fellow Avengers and casted off into space?
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Latino Review also had an “exclusive” from “four trusted sources” that the film taking the space we now know to be filled by ‘Guardians of the Galaxy would in fact be ‘Black Panther’.
http://latino-review.com/2012/06/05/exclusive-standalone-marvel-movie-cap-takes-place-wakanda/
It’s nice to speculate but I think we shouldn’t get too excited by any thing from Latino Review…
Latino Review has a surprisingly good record of rumors being truths.
I’m sorry but Battle: LA was pretty bad and Wrath of the Titans was a complete mess.
The film will also need to have a director that can handle big budgets and full CG characters. Gore Verbinski might be plausible.
Or maybe a director who doesn’t normally do action films might take up the challenge, like Darren Aronofsky, who was once attached to direct The Wolverine.
Bryan Singer, a fan and a big budget director who loves the latest tech advances, it seems to me.