The commercial potential of a new Hulk movie

[ss3walkman]

End Avengers 2 with Ultron sending Hulk into space. This sets up Planet Hulk & if Guardians Of The Galaxy is a success. Planet Hulk can also be a Guardians cross over. Have Star Lord on the same planet where Hulk ends up on. The rest of the team is doing their own mission. Hulk & Star Lord team up. The team takes Hulk home at the end. This would allow a Guardians & Avengers Cosmic team up in The Avengers 3

I do like the idea of Ultron sending Hulk into space

 

[SuperFerret]

I don't. Planet Hulk works better as an act of betrayal.

 

[Gamma Goliath]

I'm hoping that if and when the next they make the next movie they don't go for the planet hulk storyline. There's a lot of good storytelling potential without doing planet hulk and wwh. We have A.I.M in the mcu, and a surviving leader and Abomination. I wouldn't even be averse to them replacing modok with the leader as the operating head of A.I.M., he could work on the human evolution angle and incorporate gamma experimentations and attempting to gamma world. I also agree with building an ensemble of supporting characters for hulk to work off of, hawkeye is a good choice because needs other appearances, I'd like to see the genius amadeus cho show up.
Villains would be a.i.m soldiers for cannon fodder Abomination and maybe a few disfigured gamma freaks. I also think that a lack of a love interest may also be very interesting, unless they decide to kill off betty via gamma poisoning, which could open up the possibility of Rulk being in a sequel.

 

[scatterax]

I do like the idea of Ultron sending Hulk into space

It makes more sense if thanos does this IMO.

Anyway I think we need Rick Jones in there for a hulk sequel to work. He'd be kinda of like Falcon in his arc, only with more screen time. Plus he's basically the characters that plays the part of the audiences voice. He says and does what we would if we were in the movie with hulk, so his presence keeps us more engaged in the story. He is the banners companion, and he keeps the hulks destructive actions contained and focused, so he would be essential for a story where banner is continuing to learn how to best "aim" the hulk.

I picture rick basically teaching the hulk how to be a hero the way john Conner teaches the terminator to be human in t2. Also he recognizes the hulks potential for good while other characters could view him as a monster.

 

[scatterax]

As for the villain, I think it should be leader. Maybe he could be trying manipulate banner and the hulk in the beginning like an unkown puppet master by setting up scenarios baiting him to transform in places that would endanger innocents so that the military, now unchallenged by shield will try to hunt him down once more, only for rick jones to come along and counter his influence. In the second act he could break out Abomb, or use some other character to collect the hulk for him. The third act would be banner becoming aware of the leader and his identity, and hunting him down to put a stop to him. Obviously I see this as a road movie.

 

[daddydivine]

I like the idea of pushing the multiple personalities the Hulk has. Grey Hulk, Smart Hulk, Smash Hulk, and they could even incorporate the hulks from the other movies in some sort of fan fashion. Have it where banner begins to go crazy do to the Hulk constantly changing into different Hulks throughout the film. Like a compressed homage to the comics.

I think you need to change how the audience perceives the Hulk. They know hulk is banner, they know he gets mad and smashes stuff. But throw in different versions of him hulking out and I think people get interested.

 

[CoherentChaos]

Wow, I've missed a lot. (at least given the initial speed of this thread. But then again just going through 5 pages in other threads can be a chore for me)

But it just goes to show that there is creative potential. Maybe a studio head just needs to browse these forums for inspiration.

 

[Orba]

Thats one of the things about the Hulk, there have been lots of different variations of him over the years but the films only ever seem to use the one.

As for Planet Hulk, it would be a good story, but as others have said it would cost a lot for it to be made well. Right now I would think that Marvel's main priority with the Hulk would first be to prove that they can make a successful film with the character before they ever tried something as expensive as Planet Hulk. TIH is their least successful MCU film so far, and until he because a standout character in Avengers Marvel was supposed to have been planning to try just doing a TV series with him as they had given up on him being successful in films.

 

[Bullseye1]

I'd love to see another Hulk. Now that Marvel has full control it will be interesting to see if a solo movie is made in phase 3. With a budget of $200 I see no reason why this couldn't do at least $500 making a profit. Couldn't be any less of a risk than GoTG.

 

[Lord]

You can either go with an Indestructible Hulk type of him where he works for SHIELD with the promise that his alter ego Bruce Banner can use their resources for his experiments or with Planet Hulk, i think both have potencial, but the later would probably be easier to market as the blockbuster.

Either way, i really want them to make use of The Leader, seems like a waste.

 

[scatterax]

You can either go with an Indestructible Hulk type of him where he works for SHIELD with the promise that his alter ego Bruce Banner can use their resources for his experiments or with Planet Hulk, i think both have potencial, but the later would probably be easier to market as the blockbuster.

Either way, i really want them to make use of The Leader, seems like a waste.

I don't see any reality where hulk would work for shield. It's just not within his character. Especially with the way the MCU is now. It would be interesting to have leader be the one to send hulk into space but the motivation wouldn't be there unless he loses to hulk in a previous movie first. I could see it as a cliffhanger ending for TIH 2.

Maybe leader could be experimenting on homeless people trying to devise a way to transfer the hulks powers into his body in the next movie. He accidentally creates absorbing man in the process. Absorbing man could be a Frankenstein's monster (not mindless though) and banner could reason that the only way to contain someone like absorbing man is for him to unleash the hulk. Just a loose idea.

 

[smashmode]

As Captain America: The Winter Soldier starts to wind down a bit, positioning itself for a $700 M finish, we've seen that the Avengers affect is very real. Iron Man and Captain America almost doubled their previous outings' respective totals, and even Thor: The Dark World, with it's tepid critical response and proximity to major year end tent pole Catching Fire, managed to exceed the original film by almost $200 M.

All of these gains (over a combined $1 Billion between the three films) makes me wonder about the sequel potential of The Incredible Hulk franchise. Despite two low performing films, The Hulk was considered a major stand out in the Avengers, and an audience favorite.

Is that enough though? Is the general audience as wary of a third Hulk movie as Marvel is of making one? Can Marvel make a cost effective Hulk movie, with a high standard of CGI, when the $220 M budgeted Avengers only had Hulk on screen for a total of 4 minutes? Is Hulk's extreme anti-hero/ raging monster routine, which makes him compelling on one level, a commercial detriment?

I think knock out 2 birds with one stone, have the next Hulk 'Solo' movie be a team up with him and Black Widow. You saw that Hulk and Widow had a connection in the first avengers.