- The Punisher: One Last Kill will premiere on Disney+ very, very soon
- Fans shouldn't expect a movie-length Marvel TV Special
- However, its director and lead actor want Frank Castle to star in his own film
The Punisher: One Last Kill's director has expressed his desire to see the titular character eventually feature in his own movie.
Ahead of the Marvel TV special's release on Disney+, Reinaldo Marcus Green told The Direct that he and lead actor Jon Bernthal "would love" to see the fan-favorite anti-hero star in his own big-screen adventure.
Despite The Punisher's growing popularity amid Bernthal's popular take on the Marvel character, though, Green also admitted it's up to the comic giant to decide if there's really an appetite for a Frank Castle-led film.
Green's comments arrived before The Punisher: One Last Kill makes its Disney+ debut on May 12 in North and South America, and May 13 everywhere else. And, in the weeks leading up to release, some fans were optimistic that the forthcoming Marvel Special Presentation would be a TV movie in all but name.
However, those hopes were dashed recently as, with its end credits crawl included, One Last Kill's runtime clocks in at just 48 minutes. With the Marvel Phase 6 project also said to take place around the events of Daredevil: Born Again season 2, the Bernthal-starring TV Special appears to be an episodic extension of the aforementioned show, rather than a standalone, film-length story.
Regardless, Green stated his belief that Bernthal and Marvel could "come together" and develop a Punisher movie — one that Green said would no doubt be "worthy of what the audience would want to see out of that character" — if there's a demand for one following One Last Kill's launch.
"I can't speak to that," he replied when asked if there had been talks about a Punisher film. "I don't know what the plans are for the future of the Punisher.
"The only thing that we hope that we were able to accomplish is the demand for more if we were able to accomplish that. Hopefully Jon and Marvel will come together to make something worthy of what the audience would want to see out of that character moving forward.
"Speaking for myself, I know Jon and I would love to make a movie, something that could go worldwide and be on screens everywhere. But, obviously, that’ll be Marvel’s decision."
Of course, this won't be the last we see of Bernthal's Castle in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) — and, funnily enough, he'll make his silver screen debut in the near future. Indeed, The Punisher will play an active role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which hits theaters worldwide on July 31. He may not be about to star in his own movie, but Castle's big-screen MCU debut is right around the corner.
For more on that flick, find out what we know so far about Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and who else will feature in it via my Spider-Man 4 cast and character guide. Oh, and get the full lowdown on The Punisher: One Last Kill ahead of its impending release.
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