SNEAK PEEK : "Avengers: Age Of Ultron"

Actor Mark Ruffalo, currently filming director Joss Whedon's "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", recently gave his thoughts about a stand-alone "Hulk" feature film.

"If we could find a story that's compelling enough to hold people's interest for the two hours," said Ruffalo, "that is essential..."

"It's a tough nut to crack and I see it as a tough nut to crack. I think it's tougher than the other superheroes because you have a guy who essentially doesn't want to be there doing the thing that you want him to do more than anything. So it can be frustrating as an audience member. It could become a little mirthless.

" I think that Joss is trying to set it up enough so that we can strike out new ground on that relationship. With the new technology there's a lot to do in Hulk-land that we haven't done yet that is really exciting. So you could have a balance of the two.

"And I've been finding this relationship between 'Banner' and the 'Hulk' and Hulk and Banner is equally compelling -- it's been explored in the comics, but never in the movies.

"It's always been Banner's relationship to this sort of lump, this unknowable very two-dimensional thing.

"But there's also something really interesting about Hulk's relationship with Banner. The only thing that scares Hulk is Banner. It's not some bigger, scarier, huger thing -- it's this frail man.

"And it terrifies him and it angers him. It's such an interesting relationship that no one has cracked. I feel like that would be an interesting place for us to go. That might hold people's attention..."

"We have been discussing after 'Avengers' what that would be, what that would look like", said Marvel Studios Kevin Feige about a stand-alone 'Hulk' film.

"It’s really Mark Ruffalo's portrayal of 'Bruce Banner', in the way Joss Whedon brought him to life in 'Avengers' ...

"...all of the effort related to Hulk right know is going to 'Age of Ultron'. It’s exciting, because he hasn’t been in any other film, so you can expect to have a lot of 'Bruce Banner' and 'Hulk' in 'Age of Ultron'. Where do we go after that ? We’ll see. It will be a little while before we figure that out but, we do think there’s plenty of opportunities with the 'Ruffalo Banner'."

Now a new rumor suggests the following ending to 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron" :

...superheroes hatch a plot to get the 'Hulk' off of Earth, as 'Iron Man' is worried about Hulk running amok and losing control. After plotting with 'Nick Fury' to subdue the Hulk, Iron Man places him in a spaceship charted for an uninhabited planet.When he awakens on board the shuttle realizing he had been abducted, the Hulk goes into a fit of rage and breaks his restraints, causing enough damage for the craft to veer off course.