10 Things That Almost Changed 2015's Biggest Movies
7. The Hulk Nearly Turned "Grey" During The Hulkbuster Sequence In Avengers: Age Of Ultron
As if Avengers: Age Of Ultron wasn't already jammed packed to the brim with crazy ideas and plot threads, Joss Whedon reportedly had plans to throw in another curve ball: one that would have seen the arrival of a character called "Grey Hulk" (like in the comics).
In the "Hulkbuster" sequence, in which Tony Stark is forced to fight Bruce Banner after he's tricked into transforming by Scarlet Witch and goes on a rampage, the film was originally supposed to see the Hulk changing from green to grey, emphasising the mental manipulation over him.
This idea was eventually scrapped, though, as explained by VFX supervisor Christopher Townsend, who worked on the idea for a while:
"We tried a few shots in the film with that sort of much grayer version. And then were thinking, 'Will people confuse this with the gray Hulk from the comics? And is that a good thing or a bad thing?' Eventually, I think we backed off a little bit of that and made him greener so that... we didnt want to confuse people in creating a new character in that way."Would it have ultimately proved itself as a cool addition or would it have been a rather distracting element? It would've got a lot of people talking, to say the least.