- The Punisher: One Last Kill premiering on Disney+ very, very soon
- Fans should not expect a movie-length Marvel TV Special
- However, its director and lead actor want Frank Castle to star in his own film
The Punisher: One Last Kill‘s director has expressed his desire to eventually see the titular character in his own film.
Ahead of the Marvel TV special’s release on Disney+, Reinaldo Marcus Green told The Direct that he and lead actor Jon Bernthal would “love” to see the fan-favorite anti-hero in his own big-screen adventure.
Despite The Punisher’s growing popularity amid Bernthal’s popular take on the Marvel character, Green also admitted that it’s up to the comics giant to decide if there really is an appetite for a Frank Castle-led film.
Green’s comments have come before The Punisher: One Last Kill will make its Disney+ debut on May 12 in the Americas and May 13 everywhere else. And in the weeks leading up to its release, some fans were optimistic that the upcoming Marvel Special Presentation would be a TV movie in all but name.
However, those hopes were dashed recently when, with its final crawl included, One last kill‘s driving time is only 48 minutes. With the Marvel Phase 6 project also said to take place around the events of Daredevil: Born Again season 2, the Bernthal-starring TV Special appears to be an episodic extension of the aforementioned show, rather than a standalone movie-length story.
Either way, Green said he believed Bernthal and Marvel could “come together” and develop a Punisher movie — one that Green said would undoubtedly be “worthy of what audiences would want to see out of that character” — if there’s demand for one that follows One last kill‘s launch.
“I can’t talk about that,” he replied when asked if there had been talk of a Punisher movie. “I don’t know what the plans are for Punisher’s future.
“The only thing we hope we were able to accomplish is the demand for more, if we were able to achieve that. Hopefully, Jon and Marvel will come together to make something worthy of what audiences want to see out of the character going forward.”
“Speaking for myself, I know that Jon and I would love to do a movie, something that could go global and be on screens everywhere. But obviously, that’s going to be Marvel’s decision.”
Of course, this won’t be the last we see of Bernthal’s Castle in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) – and funnily enough, he’ll be making his silver screen debut in the near future. In fact, The Punisher will play an active role in Spider-Man: Brand New Daywhich hits theaters worldwide on July 31. He may not be starring in his own movie, but Castle’s big-screen MCU debut is right around the corner.
For more on that movie, find out what we know so far about it Spider-Man: Brand New Dayand who else will participate in it via my Spider-Man 4 cast and character guide. Oh, and get the full lowdown on The Punisher: One Last Kill ahead of the impending release.
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