Jon Bernthal’s Punisher Is Joining Marvel’s Spider-Man 4 And Why It’s Perfect

Although much of the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is at “Fantastic Four: First Stages” theaters on July 25, 2025, as well as “Avengers: Doomsday” in production, we just got the most fascinating update “Spider -Man: Brand New Day”. Hollywood Reporter It has confirmed that Emmy winner Jon Bernhal is set to make a big screen debut in Frank Castle/The Punisher in the upcoming film set by Daniel Cretton, “Shang-Chi” director.

It’s true. Jon Bernthal’s Punisher eventually appears in McU, and is most appropriate in the “Spider-Man” movie. While fans are still speculating on whether “a brand new day” is the right story for Tom Holland’s Peter Parker as a result of the tetonic change of his life after “Not Way Home”, adding Frank Castle offers some interesting ways to explore. It also hints in some uncharted areas for both Parker and Castle, as they are both in the midst of a big change in their grounded worlds.

Francis “Frank” Castle, alias Punisher, created by author Gerry Conway and artists John Romita sr. and Ross Andru. The character first appeared in the “Amazing Spider -Man” issue #129, which was released in February 1974 under subtitles “Punisher strikes twice”. In his debut, Punisher was originally founded as a Spider-Man Konna, but he became so popular with readers that his character eventually gave birth to his own series. Antihero has since been customized to three different live action films, including the forgotten 1989 cult film in which Dolph Lundgren played in the role, as well as two other iterations that mainly played Thomas Jane and Ray Stevenson.

Eight years after the release of “Punisher: War Zone”, Marvel TV introduced the beloved Antiheheros during the “Daredevil” season, where Jon Bernthal made his debut as Frank Castles when he became a restless ally Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Charlie Cox). His original appearance in this series led to his own Spinoff exhibition “The Punisher”, who ran two seasons before Netflix pulled the plug for the entire collaboration with Marvel TV. However, after years of anticipation, Bernthal returned to winning his return as part of the official McU Kanko “Daredevil: Born Again” in the first season of the season, “ And even with a few guest star performances, his performance aroused excitement among fans, and his future seemed bright, already bright, Thanks to Marvel’s special performance, which focuses on the character.

Peter Parker already had his first encounter with MCU’s grounded street-level threats “Spider-Man: No Meeting Home”, where he met a lawyer Matt Murdock, who wanted to represent his identity after a public announcement. The jury is still gone as to whether Matt Murdock’s Alter-Egon will face “brand new day”, but adding Frank Castle/The Punisher is a very potential team. As MCU’s New York City’s coarse criminal underworld is still being established as a result of the “Daredevil: Born Again” event, it is clear that Marvel Studios is trying to bring some of the darker realism Tom Holland’s spidy, which has already had a fair share of his fantasy adventures with his last stand with multoveric variance.

One of the most important criticisms of Tom Holland’s Spidey -Välkkäväns is that he is always involved in his story with another big MCU character. Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), and Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) are all significant in Peter’s separate films. While the “brand new day” is designing to follow the example and can even boast more MCU connections, adding Frank Castle may be a straight teasing of its beloved network in continuous maturation. Once you have undoubtedly brought the darkest and most blatantly raw Antihero in all Marvel Comics movie, it is clear that “brand new day” does not cause the same lightweight era adventures of the trilogy of Jon Watts. If nothing else, Peter is still being tested in his convictions and heroes, when he meets Frank for the first time, and Jon Bernhal’s global global opportunity with Dutch Spidy, though, is the most interesting development that comes out of this new movie.

“Spider-Man: A brand new day” turns into theaters on July 31, 2026.