Asked if he still hopes for a Hulk film, Ruffalo told BBC 1, “No, are you kidding me? Marvel brought me in, before we shot [Ragnarok], and said, ‘If you had a standalone Hulk movie, what would it be?'” He recalled how he gave his ideas, and said that afterwards “they said, ‘How about we take that and stretch it over the next three movies as your…character arc?’ And I said, ‘That’s great.’ And that’s what we’ve been doing, so I will get a standalone Hulk movie.”

Ruffalo also sounded like there’s no love lost between him and Universal Studios, which holds the rights to the Hulk character. “And we will work around Universal, and we’ll do it in three movies instead of one movie, so take that, Universal! Now what are you going to do? You could have had a piece of this! But no,” he joked.

The actor then went on to suggest that, once Phase Three is completed, fans could hypothetically edit out all non-Hulk material from Ragnarok, Infinity War and Avengers 4 to make a solid standalone film, and all without any Universal interference.

“They’ll probably sue us now,” he said with a laugh.

It has been rumored before, but this A+ list mostly movie actor has decided to retire from his superhero role after this forthcoming movie. He says it's getting stale, and there's other pursuits he wants to work on while he still can. He will announce it this Spring before the movie is released. He and his team are still trying to figure out how to tell the studio this weekend. They will freak out over it.