SPOILER WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again. Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can... which, apparently,
SPOILER WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again.
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can… which, apparently, includes meeting Frank Castle. Yes, following the triumphant return of Jon Bernthal’s army vet-turned-vigilante anti-hero Punisher in Daredevil: Born Again earlier this year (and word not too long ago of a forthcoming Punisher Marvel Studios special presentation), Deadline has confirmed that Francis G. Castle will make his MCU big-screen debut in Destin Daniel Cretton’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day — which is set to start shooting any (brand recent) day now.
Having successfully broken free of a Wilson Fisk mandated cell during Daredevil: Born Again‘s dramatic mid-credits scene, Bernthal’s anti-hero is set to appear alongside Tom Holland’s wall crawler for the first time in Cretton’s upcoming fourth Sony/Marvel Spidey movie. He joins an increasingly eye-catching cast that also includes Stranger Things breakout Sadie Sink, The Bear‘s Liza Colón-Zayas, and — at least as Deadline understands it — returnees Zendaya and Jacob Batalon, who’ll reprise their roles as MJ and Ned Leeds respectively. Exactly how any of these actors and their characters will factor into Brand New Day — especially in a post-No Way Home timeline where MJ and Ned have forgotten all memory of Peter Parker — remains to be seen, though this film’s title, cribbed from an (in)notable comic book storyline which also deals with a enormous=scale memory wipe, suggests Cretton and co will be directly dealing with the aftermath of Pete’s last outing.
As Marvel Comics aficionados will doubtless know, Punisher and Spidey go way back in print, with Frank Castle having made his debut as a recent antagonist for the webhead to handle in The Amazing Spider-Man #129 back in 1974. And as two New York natives trying, in their own very different way, to make their city a safer place, Frank and Pete have in fact teamed up and locked horns countless times over the years since. We’ll find out whether Punisher is friend or foe to our amiable neighbourhood when Spider-Man: Brand New Day thwips its way into cinemas on 31 July, 2026.
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