Directed by Louis Leterrier, The Incredible Hulk is a superhero film revolving around the namesake Marvel Comics character and serves as the second entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Starring Edward Norton as Bruce Banner, The Incredible Hulk premiered on June 8, 2008. It earned a 67% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and $264.8 million at the global box office against a $137.5–150 million budget. If you are wondering when The Incredible Hulk 2 is coming out, this is what we have discovered.
Here’s all The Incredible Hulk 2 release date information we know so far, and all the details on when it is coming out.
Is there a The Incredible Hulk 2 release date?
The Incredible Hulk 2 does not have an official release date, but it might be announced in the future.
The Incredible Hulk was developed as chapter one of several parts. According to Norton, that was why the film left some aspects of its plot out. Indeed, the ending (spoilers warning for those who haven’t seen the film) was meant to set up multiple narrative possibilities, including one scenario in which the Hulk was supposed to be an antagonist in The Avengers. Although Norton was slated to reprise his role in the prospective sequel at one point, he left the franchise reportedly because of the disagreement over the final edit of the film, and Mark Ruffalo subsequently made his first MCU appearance in The Avengers.
Since then, there have been talks about The Incredible Hulk sequel, but nothing really materialized. Leterrier told Comicbook in August 2023 that the sequel would have featured different versions of the Hulk. “Yeah there was like a whole sequel… There was like Grey Hulk, Red Hulks – there was a lot of good stuff that we were planning… Hulk is a complex character within the Marvel Universe, you want the primeval Hulk, the rage Hulk. And then when you go Grey Hulk and Smart Hulk you lose that a little bit and you get a little bit more kiddish with it,” the director said.
In 2015, Ruffalo stated that one of the hindrances preventing the film from happening might be that Universal still had distribution rights. James Gunn, who made the Guardians of the Galaxy films in the MCU, reportedly wanted to make a movie featuring the Hulk and Red Hulk, but that didn’t materialize due to the issue with Universal. In June 2023, Marvel Studios and Disney finally got the distribution rights to The Incredible Hulk. So, there is a possibility for the development of The Incredible Hulk 2 in the future.
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The official synopsis for The Incredible Hulk reads:
“Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face with a new, deadly foe.”
