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With a very special thanks to our good friend Jeff Vice, the film critic at the Deseret News, we were pointed out to an article on Empire Magazine’s website that has some pretty compelling evidence (granted, it’s via twitter) that the Iron Man sequel is in all actuality an Incredible Hulk prequel of some kind.
And we all know how much I love prequels…
Now, we don’t often indulge idle speculation here at Empire, but something Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau said today on his Twitter feed has sparked our imagination, and could be a major reveal in terms of the plot of The Avengers movie.
Favreau retweeted a question from a follower, who asked ‘Does ‘Iron Man 2’ take place before or after Hulk movie?’ Favreau succinctly replied, ‘Before’.
They went on to speculate that this validates the theory that Hulk is going to be the bad guy. Jeff Vice further speculated to us:
And if they’re following existing Avengers continuity, 616 at least, that means Loki is the real villain, since he sets Hulk up for the fall.
What do you guys think?
Responses to “Is Iron Man 2 a Prequel to The Incredible Hulk?”
on February 5th, 2010 at 6:20 pm said:
I think i would be surprised to see loki show up in ironman 2 before thor comes out. I think that would just confuse people. Actually the whole idea of this being pre-incredible hulk and having the hulk in it will probably be confusing for most people.
on February 5th, 2010 at 6:21 pm said:
Loki would be for Avengers. Hulk, too.
I don’t think that’s confusing.
on February 5th, 2010 at 6:47 pm said:
But since Loki is a god and a trickster, if he just made a cameo in IM2, maybe not even with any lines, it might be neat.
I think that would be the avengers movie we’d all want to see: rampaging hulk tricked into the situation by loki, he raids a stark facility where Cap is involved protecting some new, important tech, or a VIP, and thor show up to try
to fight loki as well…. it puts them all together. would it be too much to hope that all takes place in acts 1 and 2 and act 3 is an alien invasion where they have to get hulk to fight a la “ultimates”?
the only other thing i could hope for is that the sentry shows up, too.
too bad sony and fox will never let go of their franchises so we could make a civil war/dark avengers/seige trilogy.
on February 5th, 2010 at 6:56 pm said:
“They went on to speculate that this validates the theory that Hulk is going to be the bad guy.”
how does this validate this theory at all? All this says to me is that IM2 fits in before Tony Stark goes to the hulk to try and get him to join.
(dates are completely just for the purposes of argument)
lets say im1 took place in january of 2008
and the hulk took place in january of 2009
then im2 can take place in july of 2008 without changing anything that we already know.
on February 6th, 2010 at 4:52 pm said:
i think that iron man 2 is a prequel to the incredible hulk because at the end of hulk, tony stark mentioned an unuasual problem, i had know idea what he was talking about, so i think iron man 2 will introduce that problem
on February 6th, 2010 at 4:58 pm said:
by the way there is no way loki will be in iron man 2 KATZ is right that would be so confusing
on February 6th, 2010 at 4:58 pm said:
I don’t think that was ever implied, except for by Katz.
on February 6th, 2010 at 5:00 pm said:
that is exactly why i only mentioned Katz
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