Had more than one Hulk movie been on the table, it might induce the two companies to negotiate more aggressively. Universal has no such cut-off date: their right to the Hulk theoretically stretches in perpetuity, providing them with a bargaining tool that other studios lacked. That made it easier for them to divide the remaining pie with the new owners and move forward. Paramount, for example, had a six-picture deal with Marvel, only two of which were left when Disney acquired the comic book company. Other studio participants in Marvel’s Byzantine negotiations had fewer options than they did. The reasons are secret, of course – Universal isn’t obligated to reveal its plans for its properties to anyone – but likely have to do with the leverage provided by owning the rights to the character. And yet its early appearance in the saga and change of star make it less prominent than the Spider-Man movies, and its absence less keenly felt.
THE INCREDIBLE HULK STREAM SERIES
Banner refers to the climactic showdown in Harlem when speaking to Black Widow in The Avengers and the Abomination is slated to appear in the upcoming She-Hulk series on Disney+. The Incredible Hulk is inextricably in the MCU. RELATED: Spider-Man 3 Theory: Doc Ock Will Be No Way Home's Zemo But that film suffered from very public production difficulties, resulting in Edward Norton’s departure from the role and Ruffalo taking his place. In fact, it was only the second MCU movie to hit screens, a few weeks after the original Iron Man, complete with a post-credits scene featuring Tony Stark. The Incredible Hulk was a reboot, and formally a part of the MCU from its release.
Hulk, Ang Lee’s ambitious but flawed 2004 movie, predates the MCU by four years. But key intellectual property rights to the Hulk still belong to Universal, and as of this writing, that causes some major impediments for bringing his earlier onscreen appearance to Disney+. Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner has been a key part of the MCU after all, starting with 2012’s The Avengers and comprising seven total appearances and counting.
The Incredible Hulk, however, has remained out of these colossal agreements, which fans may find strange. RELATED: Spider-Man Is On a Collision Course With a Captain America MCU Villain Disney’s purchase of Marvel and the subsequent development of the MCU has served as a de facto reclamation project: most notably with an earlier agreement from Sony to include Spidey in the MCU and topped by the purchase of Fox, which granted them the rights to the X-Men, Fantastic Four and other key Marvel figures. The company sold off the rights to individual characters piecemeal, mostly during the 1990s when the company’s finances were in trouble. Unlike DC, which Warner Bros has owned lock, stock and barrel for decades, Marvel’s superheroes were divided among rival studios for a long time. That still leaves one prominent MCU film off of the platform, however: 2008's The Incredible Hulk. It also presumably includes Sony’s earlier Spider-Man incarnations, featuring Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, as well as Tom Holland’s entries into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, though the precise details are forthcoming. The far-reaching deal covers not only Disney’s premium streaming service, but ancillary Disney outlets like Hulu and ABC. Good news arrived on April 21 for Marvel fans with a new deal to bring Sony’s Spider-Man movies to Disney+.
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