Just for starters, it’s a good movie! I’m not about to declare it top-tier MCU or anything, but it does hold up better than several other phase-one MCU films. At this point, The Incredible Hulk can feel like a bit of an MCU practice round that doesn’t actually count.īut I’m here to tell you that it does count. Ruffalo, of course, has gone on to play the Hulk/Banner in five more MCU films (don’t forget his cameo in the Iron Man 3 stinger), putting Norton deep in the rear-view mirror. It starred Edward Norton as Bruce Banner, but when he and Marvel didn’t see eye to eye during the making of the film, Norton was replaced by Mark Ruffalo for The Avengers. That was roughly flat with Lee’s Hulk and less than half of what Iron Man had made just a month prior. The Incredible Hulk was a modest hit in 2008, making $134 million domestic and $263 million worldwide at the box office. Which, again, doesn’t seem to really bother anyone in the least. It also clearly covers The Incredible Hulk’s streaming rights, as the MCU’s second entry currently isn’t part of any subscription package and is only available to rent. That deal remains in place to this day and could be part of the reason we haven’t gotten any more solo Hulk films. Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger were all distributed by Paramount, but The Incredible Hulk was released by Universal, which continued to hold “first refusal” rights to any stand-alone Hulk film after producing director Ang Lee’s take on the character five years prior. Back in the early pre-Disney days of the MCU, Marvel Studios had to cut distribution deals with studios to release their movies. But before we get to that, let’s quickly remind everyone how we got here. But what’s interesting is that nobody really seems to notice or care. When news broke that Sony had cut a deal to eventually send a huge backlog of their movies to Disney+ (including the Tom Holland Spider-Man films), the geek-friendly corners of the Internet seemed to cry out in unison: “Finally, all the Marvel movies will be in one place!” Except that’s not entirely the case, is it? The Incredible Hulk is still being left out in the cold, far away from Disney’s warm bosom.
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