Daredevil: Born Again is one of the Disney+ series that is generating the most expectation ahead of its premiere in 2024. And the production has become even more exciting, since, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Jon Bernthal will join the project to once again put himself in the shoes of the Punisher.
According to the aforementioned medium, the actor will meet again with Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio, who until now were the only ones confirmed to repeat their roles as Daredevil and Wilson Fisk, respectively. filming of Daredevil: Born Again will launch this month in New York.
The return of Jon Bernthal’s Punisher will be a very interesting element to keep in mind for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Although it also increases doubts about what the tone of the new Disney + production will be.. Especially if we consider that everything indicates that it will be less dark and violent than Daredevil and The Punisherthe acclaimed Marvel series originally produced for Netflix.
Another point of vital importance is that, in theory, Daredevil: Born Again It will be a reboot from the story of the Man Without Fear. Signs of this have been the appearances of Matt Murdock/Daredevil in She-Hulk: Lawyer She-Hulk and Wilson Fisk/Kingpin in hawkeyewhere the tonic has been different from the one we knew before.
It is also a reality that the participation of the characters played by Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio has been in supporting roles. Although today it is impossible to know how much the approach can change in Daredevil: Born Againconsidering how the introduction of both to the UCM has been proposed.
What role will Jon Bernthal’s Punisher play in Daredevil: Born Again?
The return of Jon Bernthal’s Punisher raises a lot of questions. The first, as we already said, for the treatment of violence and the temperament of the character in general lines.
The last time we saw the character, at the end of the second season of The Punisher, was riddling two groups of gang members with a machine gun in each hand. Lowering the decibels of the character to make it more “friendly” with the Disney parameters, today seems impossible. Although you can never say never when it comes to Mickey Mouse’s house.
Another element to take into account is that both the second season of Daredevillike the two seasons of The PunisherThey did a great job telling the story of Frank Castle and why he went on a crusade against the criminal world. Thus, the question arises once again about whether Netflix series will be canon or not for Daredevil: Born Again. Beyond what has been said, which is posed as a reboot.
When it became known that Charlie Cox would return to being Daredevil with the arrival of the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, speculation about the Punisher did not wait. At the time, Jon Bernthal himself left the door open to return to the role, although he recognized that it would be a mistake to change the dark tone.
“That character, in particular, has a really deep meaning and it resonates with me a lot. He really he is in my heart, man. He really is in my bones. I am enormously protective of that character. I have said before that there is nothing in this world more important to me than my wife and children, and only until you understand that kind of love and what it really means to willingly die for someone do you understand what you would do if someone took them away from you. That is a path, a darkness and an anger that really scares me and takes me to places that I have worked for the last 20 years to get away from. […] That being said, that’s where that character needs to be. It needs to be a level of darkness. I think if you diminish the character, you do him a disservice, as well as every other version that has ever existed, every comic that has come before it, and all the amazing Punisher fans out there. This character means a lot to people in the military. So, like I said before, it’s not about whether you do the character: it’s about whether you can do it well. And I’m just interested in doing it right.”
Jon Bernthal, to The Hollywood Reporter (2021).
Another important point is that Punisher does not appear in the comic born again from 1986, which will serve as the basis for the new series. It is clear that it will not be a frame-by-frame adaptation and that, therefore, the writers will be able to take some licenses to move away from the original plot. But it will be interesting to see how Frank Castle is introduced into this story.
Daredevil: Born Again will arrive at Disney + in the spring of 2024. The first season of the series will consist of 18 episodes. We will remain attentive to news.
