'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Gets Frank As Jon Bernthal’s Punisher Joins
The king of the Castle will be the dirty rascal and crash into webs
If Avengers: Doomsday is only going to spend its first two weeks as released product in 2026, something was going to have to step up and be Marvel’s premier figure of the year for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The reveal Friday that Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle aka The Punisher is joining Spider-Man: Brand New Day? Might make a fantastic case for the vigilante’s profile.
The Punisher has been played by Bernthal since 2016’s second season of Netflix’s Daredevil, getting a two-season The Punisher spinoff before having to pause in the wake of the full cancellation of Marvel’s Netflix slate as Disney+ was in development. Bernthal was the first familiar face cast for the Marvel Studios-produced revival for Disney+, Daredevil: Born Again, even in its original form before the overhaul. He would ultimately appear in the first season’s fourth episode, as well as the ninth, which blatantly sets him up for more in the second season, which is expected to premiere next year. Accompanying it is a headlining Special Presentation for the vigilante, that Bernthal is not only starring in but cowriting with Reinaldo Marcus Green, who will also direct. They’re expected to run in the spring, so by the time season 2 ends it’ll be close enough to Brand New Day’s July 31 release to create quite the substantial run of appearances.
Marvel Studios’s Next Special Will Star The Punisher
Through Daredevil: Born Again’s first two episodes, which were released March 4 on Disney+, Jon Bernthal hasn’t made his return as Frank Castle aka The Punisher just yet, but newly-elected New York City Mayor Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) did allude to him as one of the city’s problem vigilantes. But even when all is said and done and he puts in his a…
The The Accountant 2 and The Amateur star reunites with Pilgrimage co-star Tom Holland, returning for his first Spider-Man film and seventh overall appearance as Peter Parker aka Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They in fact helped each other with their auditions. The previous film, Spider-Man: No Way Home heralded the reintegration of Daredevil’s sphere into the MCU with a special appearance by very good lawyer Matt Murdock who helped Peter get the charges for Far From Home’s London attack dropped. Maybe, just maybe it’ll make things just incremental enough to help make any tonal changes more reasonable. It also ended with Peter sacrificing his identity by unleashing a hastily-created memory wipe spell to prevent a massive multiversal incursion. While the full picture of the new life he’s made for himself is unknown, it seemingly includes Sadie Sink and Liza Colon-Zayas. Parts of his previous life, namely best friend Ned Leeds and girlfriend Michelle Jones, are going to come back to some extent, as both Jacob Batalon and Zendaya are now confirmed to appear.
While we await more castings, whether they’re for new characters or those of other established parts of the MCU, personally I’m starting to believe some Hulk return reports but I’m holding off, Spider-Man: Brand New Day comes from Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios, is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and written by the writers of the previous films, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers.
AKA Defenders Comeback: Krysten Ritter To Reprise Jessica Jones On 'Daredevil: Born Again' Season 2
The Defenders are starting to assemble again, and first to come back in Matt Murdock’s life is JESSICAAAAAA! That’s right, the investigation is over. Krysten Ritter is returning as Jessica Jones for season 2 of Marvel Studios’s Daredevil: Born Again, which is set to premiere next year on Disney+.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter