Television DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN (Season 2 Teaser Trailer, post #848)

[KnightTemplar]

Think he could be done like rorschack in watchmen

Basically have his inner monologue voiced

God, I'd love them to do an accurate adaption of Slavers,

Later on she told me everything.

About the day she left her village. About the Old Man. Cristu and Vera.

That thing her father said.

About her baby.

When she was done, I knew a lot of men would have to die.

 

[Thrawn33]

The problem with the Punisher is that it's hard to make the character the focus of his own show. Especially when Netflix mandated 13 episodes per season. The comics are simple: Frank wakes up, kills very bad people in very nasty ways, goes to bed. For a TV show, that doesn't work. So you end up with a lot of filler with Castle working through his feelings. Usually by shouting angrily at someone.

Again, this is completely different from the comics, where Castle has the emotional range of a Vulcan on Xanax.

Bernthal nails the role, it's just that the character is best used in small doses. He was great in DD S2, because the a lot of his early scenes were just him fucking up bad guys. Yeah, he does get a few emotional scenes, for example the rooftop with Matt and later when he talks about his family. But those are outliers. For the most part, he's a flesh and blood version of the Terminator. A killing machine.

Normally I hate 6-8 season formats but I think for a Punisher series that's the right call simply because there is minimal need for character development.

Set an arc

Unleash Frank

Have maybe one or two random encounters, because he's an opportunist (loved some junkie random mugger coming up to him out of nowhere in Welcome Back...)

Stack bodies

Send main antagonist to the morgue.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Normally I hate 6-8 season formats but I think for a Punisher series that's the right call simply because there is minimal need for character development.

Set an arc

Unleash Frank

Have maybe one or two random encounters, because he's an opportunist (loved some junkie random mugger coming up to him out of nowhere in Welcome Back...)

Stack bodies

Send main antagonist to the morgue.

This.

Comic book Punisher is basically a serial killer(especially if Garth Ennis is writing him). He should be presented as a nightmare figure, a Boogeyman like Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees, except he only goes after people who deserve it.

I actually wouldn't mind an episode from the POV of some mook who's desperately trying to stay alive while being hunted by Frank. It would show just how terrifying it is to have someone like the Punisher stalking you.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Normally I hate 6-8 season formats but I think for a Punisher series that's the right call simply because there is minimal need for character development.

Set an arc

Unleash Frank

Have maybe one or two random encounters, because he's an opportunist (loved some junkie random mugger coming up to him out of nowhere in Welcome Back...)

Stack bodies

Send main antagonist to the morgue.

I've said this before but I think a punisher show could work if it focuses more on the bad guy.

Like most of the episode is about the bad guy doing bad things and making you hate him, then halfway through he gets a clue that Frank is hunting him, and you see the bad guy go through all the stages of thinking about fighting back, trying to run or hide, etc. and at the end of the episode Frank finally catches up with him.

Would be a formulaic show but if the formula is good then it can work.

 

[Thrawn33]

I've said this before but I think a punisher show could work if it focuses more on the bad guy.

Like most of the episode is about the bad guy doing bad things and making you hate him, then halfway through he gets a clue that Frank is hunting him, and you see the bad guy go through all the stages of thinking about fighting back, trying to run or hide, etc. and at the end of the episode Frank finally catches up with him.

Would be a formulaic show but if the formula is good then it can work.

Love it. Day in the life of a scumbag interrupted.

Also to keep that from getting repetitive sneak in some episodes of Frank's day to day where opportunity presents itself, Ala dirty laundry.

 

[My Spot]

A disturbing lack of Frank Castle in that trailer.
Whatever happened to the little mini movie there were supposed to make showing how he escaped captivity?

 

[KnightTemplar]

A disturbing lack of Frank Castle in that trailer.
Whatever happened to the little mini movie there were supposed to make showing how he escaped captivity?

The Punisher isn't in this season of Daredevil at all. That's been confirmed.

 

[shunyata]

A disturbing lack of Frank Castle in that trailer.
Whatever happened to the little mini movie there were supposed to make showing how he escaped captivity?

I think that was the last two minutes (maybe post credit?) of the last episode of Born Again.

But there was also talk about Disney greenlighting a one off with Bernthal around the time Born Again was released.

Like a single episode Punisher short. Not a full season or a full film.

2026's Punisher Disney+ Project Narrows Its Release Window

The Punisher Special Presentation will bring Jon Bernthal back into the Disney+ spotlight.

thedirect.com

"Bernthal offered some clarity on exactly this subject in a recent interview with ScreenRant. When asked about his role in the upcoming Punisher special as well as next year's Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the Frank Castle star remarked, both projects will release "around that same time:"

"Around that same time, there will also be this Punisher special that's coming out, that I think will be as high-octane Punisher as you've ever seen. I think what was really important to me and to Destin and to Tom is that we believed that The Punisher could walk off of the Spider-Man set and could walk onto the special set, and I do believe that we achieved that."

This is the first indication of specific release timing for 2026's Punisher Special Presentation. For context, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is set to swing into theaters on July 31, 2026. As mentioned by Bernthal, a release window for The Punisher, somewhere between June and August 2026, feels the most likley."

 

[My Spot]

The Punisher isn't in this season of Daredevil at all. That's been confirmed.

 

[GSP_37]

Who was the gloved guy on the ground DD offered a hand to get up?

I'd like to see buff Kingpin judo'ing the fook out of like five sparring partners at the same time.

 

[GSP_37]

I read rumors saying The Hand will be in Season 2.