I'm legally required by talk show rules to ask you if we will see the Hulk again
I do know that I did give Kevin Feige the blockbuster award at the Hollywood
Film Awards the other day to a smattering of applause and and he did
say hey do you think there's any more story left here and I said I could
probably come up with a few story lines and he said well maybe you should come
in and we'll have a talk oh you heard it here there it is
on Stephen Colbert!
Welcome back everyone it's Charlie Happy New Year I got a lot of requests from
you to do a video about the big Hulk news apparently Marvel got the rights
back to do a Hulk movie so I'll try to explain what's going on but as you can
see Mark Ruffalo is now pitching new Hulk movies to Kevin Feige
that would make a lot more sense if they finally have all the rights to the Hulk
back so Oh break everything down what's going on behind the scenes in my top
picks for what that hope movie could be if you're new to the channel be sure to
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new Hulk movie on the video so you guys may have seen recently the last couple
of days there been a lot of news reports from websites that Marvel may have just
gotten the rights to do a hoax solo film back from Universal it makes a lot more
sense that they would be planning new Hulk movies if that were true the clip
of Mark Ruffalo talking about new movies with Kevin Feige is actually from the
summer a couple months ago after Avengers endgame came out because
everyone was wondering what are they going to do with the hope now his arms in a
sling is that going to heal because of his gamma powers where's he going to show
up during Marvel phase 4 when I first saw that clip immediately I just assumed
that he was talking about business as usual in terms of what they were allowed
to do with the whole character that many would probably show up during the Marvel
phase for she-hulk series in Avengers 5 but Avengers 5 isn't happening for a
couple years till Marvel phase 5 the she-hulk series is happening in the next
couple of years in the big reason why they haven't made a new Hulk solo film
since the Edward Norton Marvel phase 1 Incredible Hulk film is because up to
this point Universal has held the rights to distribute Hulk movies it's not like
it was with Fox the x-men Deadpool and Fantastic Four characters Universal
never had the rights to make a Hulk movie
they just controlled the distribution rights but the problem is is that's
where the studio's make all their money so look at this giant chart here of who
holds the rights to all the Marvel characters this was updated right after
Disney bought Fox so that's why all the Fox characters are inside the giant red
Marvel bubble notice some of the Studios like Sony where they share the rights
with characters it's the same with Universal there's a sort of sharing
situation going on Universal got the rights to the whole
characters back when Marvel went bankrupt in the 90s and they had their
fire sale on the movie rights to all their big characters that's when
he got the rights to spider-man when Fox got the rights to x-men and Fantastic
Four I don't say Deadpool because technically Deadpool falls under the
x-men rights even though he is a franchise by himself has surpassed the
traditional x-men films but since the 90s Marvel has always had the rights to
physically make a Hulk solo film they just haven't had the rights to
distribute it meaning that Marvel and Disney wouldn't make any money on the
Hulk movies that they would make the deal with the spider-man characters
isn't quite the same thing because technically Sony makes most of the
box-office money and Marvel just gets the rights to include spider-man in
their movies the brand new sharing deal that they just signed to get Tom Han
back into the MCU gives Marvel a bigger piece of the box-office pie but for the
most part Sony distributes the spider-man films Marvel just makes them
Sony makes most of the money on the box-office Marvel makes most of the
money on the merchandise on all the other stuff outside of the movie
apparently up to this point though Universal was not willing to make the
same kind of deal with Marvel that Sony did so there's that funny video of Mark
Ruffalo talking about Universal hating money watch this this is actually from
before Avengers endgame
I want to just make one thing perfectly clear today a
standalone Hulk movie will never happen because Universal has the rights to the
standalone Hulk movie and for some reason they don't know how to play well
with Marvel and they don't want to make money and with you as the new Hulk it
would be terrible, that's really know that these corporations would work it
out if they thought they make enough money also think about who's playing him
but I mean I figure I got like two or three more years left before I'm
too old to play the Hulk, we talked about it but I just I don't see it in
the cards, do you see it in the cards? no. It means a lot to me I mean I really love this
character.
that clip is from a while ago you can
hear the bitterness in his voice like he just never believes in his heart of
hearts that they're ever going to be able to do a solo hulk film and based on
what he says it sounds like up to this point Universal didn't want to make the
same type of deal with Marvel that Sony did for the spider-man character but
apparently whatever black magic ritual Marvel and Kevin Feige performed
recently they may have just fixed all their hope problems with that and that's
why you're seeing these news reports from websites saying that they can make
a new Hulk movie again it would be set after the events of Avengers endgame so
you'd have the professor version of Hulk you'd have to explain what happens to
him before you do anything else with the character but here are my top picks for
what they can do with new Hulk stories that they have not done yet just some
easy slam dunks first stop is just going back to the planned story arc they
originally had for Edward Norton's Incredible Hulk you may have seen the
article going around about Tim Blake Nelson he was the actor that played the
leader during that movie and they just disappeared because they didn't make any
more sequels he revealed the original plans for that trilogy he said that
William Hurt Edward Norton and himself all signed on to do a trilogy of
incredible hulk movies eventually his leader character was supposed to become
the main villain you all saw what happened because of the problems with
the rights and they got rid of Edward Norton for Mark Ruffalo before the first
Avengers movie Marvel led Tim Blake Nelson out of his contract and inside
William Hurt to a new one so that he could appear during civil war and all
the other Marvel films Edward Norton also recently revealed why he was fired
by Marvel because he got into a big creative fight with them and Kevin Feige
over the idea of what that Hulk trilogy was going to become because Edward
Norton claims that he signed on for a much darker hardcore version of the hook
than what we've seen from Mark Ruffalo's version the hardcore version of the Hulk
would be amazing world war hulk would even make a great Avengers movie forget
just Solo Hulk movies you could actually turn that into a big Avengers crossover
then there is the classic Hulk vs. Wolverine easy slam-dunk movie they're
not even going to have space in their movie release schedule to actually release a
new Hulk Solo movie till Marvel phase 5 and that's the target period when
they're introducing a lot of their new x-men Marvel characters it would be
super easy for them to do hope vs. Wolverine then and talk about deep cut
comic book origins comic book Wolverine debut
for the first time in the Incredible Hulk comics Hulk was rampaging his way
across the Canadian border so the Canadian version of Thunderbolt Ross
unleashed quote-unquote Weapon X on him when he steps out of the shadows to
fight the Hulk its Wolverine wearing his original comic book costume over the
next several years they had several rematch fights in the comics he
eventually got his own solo title then Wolverine joined the x-men and so on and
so forth the other really easy slam dunk is just
giving Thunderbolt Ross a proper Red Hulk origin story and then passing the
Hulk torch to him so to speak in the movies for a little while on route to a
Thunderbolts Red Hulk series or even a Dark Avengers movie
I think Marvel and Sony do have big plans for the Norman Osborn character
eventually a very different version of his character but if they can't do that
Thunderbolt Ross would be a great proxy for that he does show up prominently
during the Black Widow trailer but there are two different versions of
Thunderbolt Ross in that trailer there's the ones that you see and then the one
you hear the voice over he has with Natasha is actually from the events of
Captain America Civil War when she goes on the run back to Budapest
the version you see here in this scene who looks way younger with the D aging
technology seems like it's actually from the 90s because he doesn't have any gray
hair this is all blonde and it's probably from the first time he meets
Natasha when she's still part of the Black Widow program my early theory
about what's going on with Thunderbolt Ross right now just based on the footage
we've seen and what they've talked about is I think they're using him in a sort
of reverse Nick Fury type of role like they don't want to put Nick Fury in this
film even though he is prominent in Natasha's backstory but they want to use
Thunderbolt Ross in service of setting up a Thunderbolts or Dark Avengers
future project with the Yelena Belova character taking the mantle of Black
Widow after the events of Avengers endgame in having Thunderbolt Ross asked
her to join his quote unquote new team that he's putting together Nick Fury
style it's a really cool thing being that it becomes a dark mirror for that
original Nick Fury Iron Man post-credits scene at the beginning of phase 1 but
let me know in the comments if Marvel got the rights back to do a Hulk solo
film what kind of movie do you want them to do with him during Marvel phase 5 you
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everybody stay awesome, happy new year!