Jon Bernthal Reportedly In Talks Now To Return As The Punisher
To put it in the simplest of terms,
the Punisher doesn’t work within the confines of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sure, the Netflix shows originally took place in the same narrative space as the movies before Kevin Feige disregarded them as canon, and for a while, Frank Castle was technically bludgeoning criminals and gunning down bad guys not far from Tony Stark’s Avengers Tower, but you couldn’t imagine the two ever crossing paths.
Plenty of film and television projects feature excessive and often needless violence, but if you take that away from the Punisher, then you greatly reduce both the appeal of the character and the connection to his comic book roots, turning him into just another PG-13 action hero. Jon Bernthal isn’t shy about admitting that he’s got unfinished business with the role, but you can hardly picture the grizzled actor trading witty barbs with the MCU’s roster of superheroes during brightly lit scenes set on a sunny afternoon.