Jon Bernthal's Punisher Will Return After Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 in a Guardians of the Galaxy-Style Marvel Special

Jon Bernthal's Punisher is slated for a comeback following the conclusion of Daredevil: Born Again Season 1, in a Marvel special reminiscent of a Guardians of the Galaxy style adventure.

Entertainment Weekly reported that Bernthal will co-write this Marvel special with We Own This City director, Reinaldo Marcus Green.

Brad Winderbaum, head of Marvel Television, described the project as "a shotgun blast of a story, but also has all the pathos and emotion that you want out of a Frank Castle story," adding, "It's so exciting."

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News of this Punisher one-shot arrives as Marvel Television plans the return of the Defenders on Disney+. This street-level superhero team, featuring Matt Murdock's Daredevil, Krysten Ritter's Jessica Jones, Mike Colter's Luke Cage, and Finn Jones' Iron Fist, last appeared on Netflix before their episodes transitioned to Disney+ and were integrated into the MCU canon.

Winderbaum previously told Entertainment Weekly, “It’s certainly exciting to be able to play in that sandbox…We’re dealing with actors and time and the massive scale of production in order to build a cinematic universe, especially on television. But…it is certainly something that is creatively extremely exciting and that we are very much exploring.”

Daredevil: Born Again, premiering March 4th, continues the Daredevil narrative that originated on Netflix, featuring returning characters such as the Punisher and Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk (Kingpin). This time, the antagonist is the artfully-inclined serial killer, Muse.