Planet Hulk är en av de mest älskade Hulk-berättelserna och det var många som hoppades på att slutet av Age of Ultron skulle bygga upp inför en Planet Hulk-film. Så blev det inte men trots det baserar man en del av Thor: Ragnarok på berättelsen och i en intervju med CinemaBlend berättade Kevin Feige om deras tankar.
''There were a lot of discussions about, 'How can we elevate the Thor franchise in the same way that we had successfully elevated the Captain America franchise?' Part of that was doing something tonally different... The other thing that Cap got was a lot of other Marvel players coming in: Black Widow, Nick Fury, the Falcon - not to mention Civil War where we got everybody. So I would see Hemsworth over the years and on the set of Ultron he was like, 'Hey, where are my players? Who else am I getting?' And he was half joking, half serious. And I would always go away and I remember, and we'd always think, 'Who can we bring in to this?'...
And quickly we started to think about the Hulk. We started to think about, 'Well, we last saw Hulk in a quinjet going up into the atmosphere. Maybe it kept going! And maybe that would do us an opportunity to do something that we always loved the idea of, but never seriously ever thought about doing it -- which was gladiator Hulk. 'How can we do that?' And that's when it began to coalesce.''
''The Hulk seemed to make a lot of sense. It seemed like it could be something that we could do, both take your two most powerful characters and pit them against each other in a Jeff Goldblum arena - and it doesn't get better than that - and then also having the fish out of water comedy of having Bruce Banner on another fricken planet. And that really all started to cook, and Eric Pearson, who is one of our credited writers, really brought it to life.''
På grund av Universal lär en fristående Hulk-film troligtvis aldrig ske så naturligtvis är det välkommet att se Hulk i andras filmer och inte bara i Avengers-rullarna.
