Jon Bernthal is back as Frank Castle in a newly released behind-the-scenes look at Marvel’s upcoming Punisher special, which is due to drop on Disney Plus next year.
In the pictures, posted online by Just Jared, we can see Bernthal dressed in a khaki green zip-up hoodie and grey jeans in what looks to be the streets of New York City. However, the star has changed up his hair from Daredevil, and looks to be bruised and bloody, meaning that some bad guys are definitely going to get the Punisher special in the upcoming short.
This is the first we have seen of the anti-hero since his appearance in Daredevil: Born Again. However, the most interesting part of the pictures is what is in the background. Castle seems to be leaning up against a dessert cart outside a restaurant. Could this be Gnucci’s Restaurant from Marvel comics? The location is mentioned in the first issue of Punisher Vol. 5, owned by a mafia-like group called The Gnucci Crime Family.
The Punisher special, co-written by Reinaldo Marcus Green and Bernthal himself, was announced earlier this year. The one-off is a part of Marvel’s Special Presentation series, which started with the Werewolf By Night style special in 2022.
Although we are yet to see an official synopsis for the Punisher special, Marvel's head of television Brad Winderbaum told EW, "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… It's so exciting."
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