Red Hulk to be the villain in Guillermo del Toro's Hulk TV series?

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GUILLERMO DEL TORO may have dropped out of directing The Hobbit and abandoned his adaptation of Antarctic horror tale At The Mountains of Madness but we'll soon be seeing his work on screen with creature feature Pacific Rim and ABC's new Hulk series.

He's co-writing the Hulk show with David Eick (an executive producer on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Battlestar Galactica and Caprica) and has already clarified that it will be unrelated to the big-screen incarnation now embodied by Mark Ruffalo in next summer's The Avengers.

The TV show will instead be an origin story portraying physicist Bruce Banner in his early 20s and using a combination of prosthetics, animatronic puppets and CGI to create his giant green alter-ego.

Del Toro has stated several times that he is particularly inspired by the Hulk comic book stories penned by Jeph Loeb. And now there is a suggestion that the Red Hulk - created by Loeb in 2008 - may be the antagonist of the story...



ComicVine reports that an unverified source has told them: "David Eick and Guillermo del Toro submitted a treatment that includes the development of the Red Hulk as a villain."

While that is just a rumour with no corroboration, the first hint that other hues of Hulk might be making an appearance came in a recent IGN interview, in which del Toro said: "I love the classic roots of the myth. I love the Jekyll and Hyde aspect of it, of course.

"But I also love the Jeph Loeb run he had at Marvel and all his incarnations, there's some really intelligent choices there. Jeph is involved in what we are doing. We're trying to make it unique but honour and follow the precepts in the comics."

The filmmaker then declined to answer a question on whether we will see grey and green Hulks make an appearance, perhaps lending some weight to the idea that other colorations of the character might be part of the show.

The Hulk was originally depicted as grey in his 60s comic book debut and this later evolved into the idea of a Grey Hulk persona within Bruce Banner which is smarter than the green version but not as strong.

The Red Hulk - sometimes called Rulk - is a separate entity and was eventually revealed to be the brutal alter-ego of General Thunderbolt Ross, a long-time adversary of the green Hulk.

With del Toro being the man who brought the similarly scarlet-skinned Hellboy to a live-action setting in two feature films, it wouldn't be a surprise that he has his sights set on a Red Hulk too.

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