Marvel Had to Spoil Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World Trailers, Director Insists: 'It's Just So Hard to Keep Anything Secret in Today’s Day and Age'

Marvel had nary prime but to spoil the quality of Red Hulk successful trailers for Captain America: Brave New World, the film's manager has insisted — contempt galore fans believing the villain should person been kept nether wraps.

Red Hulk, the aggravated change ego of Harrison Ford's quality President Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross, lone appears precocious successful the film's last act, pursuing a lengthy build-up and moments wherever it feels similar Ross volition support his gamma radiation-fueled temper nether control.

Among plentifulness of different criticsm for Brave New World — widely-considered a beauteous bland MCU introduction — fans person said Red Hulk's inclusion wrong trailers not lone spoiled the astonishment of his appearance, but besides oversold the character's beingness successful the film.

Now, however, Brave New World manager Julius Onah said Marvel had to amusement Red Hulk up of the film's release, arsenic the villain's quality would person leaked regardless.

"When you're making a movie similar this, an announcement goes retired that Harrison Ford is going to play Thaddeus Ross, and you person a fandom arsenic monolithic and arsenic passionate arsenic the MCU fandom is, you're toast astatine that point, you know?" Onah told Empire.

"In a perfect-case scenario, it would person been awesome [if ] that [had been] an in-theatre surprise, but I deliberation it would person been precise difficult," helium continued. "Somewhere on the way, a artifact would person been found, oregon idiosyncratic would person leaked a trailer. It's conscionable truthful hard to support thing concealed successful today’s time and age."

While it's existent that Marvel movie productions look changeless unit astir leaks, and merchandise specified arsenic toys person been the root of communicative spoilers successful the past, the reasoning present astir the determination to amusement Red Hulk doesn't needfully tally with however different Marvel movies person teased villains successful the past.

Take, for instance, the upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps. We cognize from trailers that giant-sized baddie Galactus volition look successful the movie astatine immoderate point, but Marvel has been cautious to lone amusement a glimpse astatine the villain, teasing his quality portion keeping the afloat uncover backmost for the movie itself.

Of course, the afloat look astatine Galactus inactive leaked — via a Snapple promotion, of each things — portion different quality wholly absent from trailers truthful acold has appeared arsenic a Funko Pop toy. But these spoilers volition lone beryllium seen by a fraction of the film's wide audience. What matters to astir fans is what's successful authoritative trailers — and what's not.

There's a definite consciousness among Marvel fans that excessively overmuch of Red Hulk was shown, possibly to ramp up excitement astir a movie that different felt underwhelming.

Next up for Captain America volition beryllium an quality successful Avengers: Doomsday, aft Thunderbolts*/New Avengers confirmed Sam Wilson had begun rebuilding his ain mentation of Marvel's large team.

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