We’ve got some bad news for those of you excited by speculation that the plot of Marvel’s The Avengers 2 would centre around the Planet Hulk storyline; Joss Whedon has confirmed exclusively to IGN that this will not be the case.
When we sat down with the director to talk about his upcoming version of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, we couldn’t resist asking if there was any truth to the rumours that future Avengers movies would make use of the Planet Hulk or World War Hulk storylines.
His reply, which can be watched in the above video, was, “Well I’m really not supposed to comment, but no, that’s nonsense.”
Speculation that the next Avengers movie would be Hulk-centric began last month when Latino Review claimed that The Avengers 2 would end with Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk shipped off Earth by the MCU’s (Marvel Cinematic Universe) version of the Illuminati, which would in turn lead to one of Marvel’s Phase 3 movies being a live-action Planet Hulk film.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies