Another week, another handful of Marvel Cinematic Universe rumors running rampant across the worldwide web! Bloody-Disgusting has done some further digging on the latest batch of gossip and here’s what we have turned up. WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS BELOW!
Is Red Hulk in Captain America: Civil War? As reported earlier today, Bleeding Cool recently posited the theory that not only is Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) going to trot back into frame as our favorite angry emerald Avenger, but he will be doing so to combat the arrival of the Red Hulk. In the comics, Red Hulk was a gamma’d out General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross. William Hurt has already been confirmed as part of the cast, reprising his The Incredible Hulk role. So is Hurt going to turn heel and wrecking havoc as Red Hulk in Civil War? No. Sorry folks, but this is one theory that we can firmly shoot down. In fact, we’re hearing that Hulk isn’t likely to have anything beyond a cameo in the film…if even that.
Moving on, much speculation has been made about who exactly Martin Freeman is playing in Civil War. Avengers handler (and occasional X-Men foil) Henry Peter Gyrich was one of the bigger guesses ever since the supposed “script leak” (it was bogus!) that was making the rounds. Latino Review recently proclaimed that Martin would be tackling the role of British Prime Minister Edward Chase, something that our own sources are backing up. The character is expected to take a pro-registration stance and have some shady ties to both Hydra leader Baron Helmut Zemo (Daniel Bruhl) and black market arms dealer Ulysses Klaw (Andy Serkis).
Civil War is, of course, also supposed to give us our introduction to the MCU’s Spider-Man, but his existence and world will be teased before that. BD has also managed to confirm Latino Review‘s report that Oscorp will be referenced in some manner in Ant-Man next month, with Osborn possibly being listed as a potential buyer of Darren Cross’s (Corey Stoll) Yellowjacket technology.
That’s all folks! If we hear anything further, you will be the first to know.
