Jon Bernthal’s Punisher will return after Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 in a Guardians of the Galaxy-style Marvel special.
Entertainment Weekly reported that Bernthal will also write the Marvel special with We Own This City director Reinaldo Marcus Green.
“It’s like a shotgun blast of a story, but also has all the pathos and emotion that you want out of a Frank Castle story,” Brad Winderbaum, the head of Marvel Television, said. “It’s so exciting.”
News of the Punisher one-shot comes as Marvel Television plots the return of the Defenders on Disney+. This street level superhero team, which includes Matt Murdock’s Daredevil, Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones, Mike Colter’s Luke Cage, and Finn Jones’ Iron Fist, was last seen breaking heads on Netflix before episodes were moved to Disney+ and made MCU canon.
“It’s certainly exciting to be able to play in that sandbox,” Winderbaum had previously told Entertainment Weekly. “Obviously, we don’t have the unlimited storytelling resources like a comic book, [where] if you can draw it, you can do it. We’re dealing with actors and time and the massive scale of production in order to build a cinematic universe, especially on television.
“But I can just say that all those variables taken into account, it is certainly something that is creatively extremely exciting and that we are very much exploring.”
Daredevil: Born Again, out March 4, continues the Daredevil story that began on Netflix, and includes a number of returning characters such as the aforementioned Punisher and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk (Kingpin). The threat this time around is the artistically inclined serial killer Muse.
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