Director Louis Leterrier (Clash of the Titans, Incredible Hulk) recently sat down for an interview and spoke a bit about the forthcoming Avengers movie (which he’s made no secret of wanting to direct) and the fact that Iron Man writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby hinted that the Hulk could be the villain in the film.

The filmmaker said,

“He’s not really a villain, If Hulk is a villain, that’s too simplistic.”

“What’s great about Marvel is that it’s never good guy and bad guy, hero and villain – it’s more complex than that, Hulk could be in trouble and chased by Iron Man, no problem. But I don’t think he would end up the villain, killing people and being villainous of his own free will.”

“In the Avengers stories when he was the villain, he was always controlled by Loki or someone else, and it was never of his own doing”

Leterrier is still excited about the possibilities for the Avengers movie,

“The next step in superhero movies is the clash of cultures. That’s what’s going to be so fun. ‘Iron Man’ was great, but you don’t remember ‘Iron Man’ for the fantastic action sequences – though they were great – it’s the human interaction and how great the human actors were.”

“When you put Thor in Tony Stark’s universe, it’s fantastic, Then you add the anti-superhero that is Hulk, who’s like, ‘Leave me alone, I don’t want to be a superhero,’ and you tell him, ‘You have to come with us or you have to fight us,’ and then on top of all this you have Captain America, a gung-ho super-soldier who starts doubting himself and his system… and that’s fantastic. You have all these interactions, and that’s just the beginning. Then you have the villains and the enormous potential of these action pieces.”

Leterrier laughed,

“I’m first in line to see that stuff”