Wait, Could Harrison Ford Be Joining the MCU
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Harrison Ford may be hanging up the whip and fedora as Indiana Jones, but the actor is not saying goodbye to the world of Disney by any means. According to /Film, who independently confirmed the news, Harrison Ford is set to replace the late William Hurt as General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross. The news was originally broken by The Hot Mic With John Rocha and Jeff Sneider, a seemingly obscure YouTube podcast with 23.9k followers. (Translated: take this news with an extreme grain of salt.)
Neither Marvel nor Harrison Ford has commented on the casting announcement, but fans have long known that plans to recast General Ross would have to move forward given the MCU trending toward more Hulk stories. Aside from a potential She-Hulk Season Two, Marvel is also reportedly working on a World War Hulk film. According to /Film, Ford will make his first appearance as the character in Captain America: New World Order, set to debut in May 2024.
In the MCU's past, General Ross appeared in The Incredible Hulk, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers; Endgame, and Black Widow. The late William Hurt, who played the character since 2008, passed away due to complications from prostate cancer earlier this year. There is still much more for General "Thunderbolt" Ross to do in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, however, besides hunting for Hulk and forcing the Avengers to sign documents.
In the comics, Ross helps put together the team of reformed villains known as the Thunderbolts, who operate in a similar fashion to DC's Suicide Squad. At the Disney D23 Expo last month, Marvel unveiled their plans for a Thunderbolts film, starring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Wyatt Russell, and more. All that was missing was the man himself—the General so blind with rage for the Hulk that he ends up transforming himself into a Red Hulk just to fight him one on one. Many fans expected Red Hulk to join the MCU during the series finale of She-Hulk, but the legal comedy series on Disney+ clearly had other ideas in the works. It would just be icing on the cake to see the 80-year-old Ford gear up in the motion capture suit to get bright red and grapple with the Hulk.
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