Mark Ruffalo Says a Solo HULK Movie "Doesn't Look Particularly Promising"

Considering the near miraculous deal that was struck between Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures to share the character of Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it would be understandable if big fans of The Incredible Hulk were on the edge of their seats hoping that Marvel would be able to come to an understanding with Universal to finally create another solo Hulk film. But according to the man who currently plays the not-so-jolly green giant, that seems unlikely at the moment.

In a new interview, Mark Ruffalo spoke about the likelihood of a new solo Hulk film with Yahoo:

Marvel hasn’t been able to make a Hulk standalone movie because Universal has the rights to the character’s solo films. But Disney just made a deal with Sony to bring Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so do you think that’s a possibility with the Hulk now?
I think they’ve been working on it. Marvel and Universal famously don’t get along very well, and so that’s working against us, definitely. But I know for a fact that everyone is holding out hope that one day we can do it. But the nature of the relationship right now, it’s a little prohibitive. And I hope that that changes, that changes with regimes, it changes over the course of time. But right now it doesn’t look particularly promising.
Sony had a big regime change, and so they needed to change things, and it seems like it’s going to work out from both sides.
Yeah, I think ultimately that’s what they’re after, it working out for both sides. But like I said, Marvel and Universal are just not having a good time together right now.

Though it still sounds like it'll be a while until we get another movie in which Hulk smashes up the screen by himself, at least we know when we'll see the character again after the events of the disappointing Age of Ultron: he'll pop up next to the God of Thunder in Thor: Ragnarok.

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