Thor: Ragnarok Update: Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk Joining the Thor Franchise
Hulk fans can expect to see a lot more of the big green superhero!
Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that Mark Ruffalo, who plays the Hulk/Bruce Banner in "The Avengers" movies, will be starring alongside Chris Hemsworth in "Thor: Ragnarok."
There are currently no plot details for the movie, which will be directed by Taika Waititi. The only thing that fans know is that the plot will pick off where "Avengers: Age of Ultron" left off. In case fans do not remember, Thor had a vision about an impending apocalypse.
Tom Hiddleston, who plays Thor's younger brother, Loki, and Jaimie Alexander, who plays Lady Sif, will be returning to the franchise.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige teased that the movie will be featuring a major gamechanger.
"[Ragnarok] is a very important word, which means essentially 'the end of all things,'" Feige said last year. "It's a very important movie for us in our Phase 3 timeline, changing everything that comes after it."
Despite the success of the Marvel movies, there is still no word on whether or not The Hulk will be getting a stand-alone film. The last two Hulk movies that came out were Ang Lee's "Hulk" starring Eric Bana in 2003 and Louis Leterrirer's "The Incredible Hulk" featuring Edward Norton in 2008. Ruffalo noted that making a movie about the Hulk that is not about how he became the Hulk could be difficult due to the Hulk's secretive personality.
"It's a particularly hard character to make a movie about, because he doesn't want to be there, generally," he told EW previously. "He doesn't want to do the very thing that you want him to do. So it gets a little frustrating as an audience, and there's only so much of that."
"Thor: Ragnarok" hits theaters on Nov. 3, 2017.