Jon Bernthal's Punisher is slated for a comeback following the conclusion of Daredevil: Born Again Season 1, in a Marvel special reminiscent of a Guardians of the Galaxy style adventure.
Entertainment Weekly reported that Bernthal will co-write this Marvel special with We Own This City director, Reinaldo Marcus Green.
Brad Winderbaum, head of Marvel Television, described the project as "a shotgun blast of a story, but also has all the pathos and emotion that you want out of a Frank Castle story," adding, "It's so exciting."
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News of this Punisher one-shot arrives as Marvel Television plans the return of the Defenders on Disney+. This street-level superhero team, featuring Matt Murdock's Daredevil, Krysten Ritter's Jessica Jones, Mike Colter's Luke Cage, and Finn Jones' Iron Fist, last appeared on Netflix before their episodes transitioned to Disney+ and became MCU canon.
Winderbaum previously told Entertainment Weekly, “It’s certainly exciting to be able to play in that sandbox. 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, premiering March 4th, continues the Daredevil narrative that originated on Netflix, and features several returning characters including the Punisher and Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk (Kingpin). This time, the antagonist is the artistically driven serial killer, Muse.
