A brand new day certainly! Jon Bernthal is taking his Punisher character from tv to movie with an element in Spider-Man: Model New Day.
Bernthal has joined the solid of that fourth Spider-Man movie within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is able to shoot in England this summer season forward of a launch date of July 31, 2026, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter.
Model New Day marks the primary look of Bernthal’s Frank Fort a.okay.a. the Punisher on the large display screen. That iteration of the violent vigilante made his debut in Netflix’s Daredevil sequence after which bought his personal sequence on the streaming platform with The Punisher. Bernthal reprised the half for Season 1 of the Disney+ revival Daredevil: Born Once more and can return for Season 2. Plus, Disney+ is prepping a Punisher standalone particular that Bernthal is co-writing.
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Tom Holland will return to play Peter Parker a.okay.a. Spider-Man in Model New Day, alongside Zendaya as Michelle “MJ” Jones-Watson and Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds. Sadie Sink and Liza Colón-Zayas have additionally joined the solid in undisclosed roles, and Destin Daniel Cretton is directing the image.
On X, followers reacted to the information of Bernthal’s casting.
“Lastly!” wrote @Dannyis1337, sharing a picture of the comic-book variations of Spidey and The Punisher squaring off on the duvet of The Wonderful Spider-Man #129.
“Now that’s what I’m speaking about. Frank Fort all the way in which!” wrote @Hassankhan02.
“This needs to be good,” stated @Drakester49.
“Let’s f***ing go,” wrote @davudysrgl.
@intotalkaos, in the meantime, posted clapping emoji in regards to the prospect of a “gritty, street-level Spider-Man.”
However @Frandaman9043 solid skepticism about Fort’s Model New Day look — and criticism about Daredevil: Born Once more — writing, “This will likely be a toned-down, Disney Punisher, in comparison with the horrible iteration of him in Daredevil: Butchered Once more and the superior Netflix model.”
Bernthal and Holland beforehand costarred within the 2017 movie Pilgrimage, and it was throughout manufacturing of that movie that they helped one another with their Marvel audition tapes, Bernthal advised Jimmy Kimmel in April.
“I’ll take credit score that in [Holland’s] audition tape, he did this factor the place he type of [slid] into the scene, and I gave him the notice: ‘Tom, perhaps it is best to type of run up that wall and do a double backflip after which begin the scene,’” the actor recalled. “He was like, ‘Yeah, you suppose I ought to do this? That’s not an excessive amount of?’ And I used to be like, ‘I don’t suppose any of those different fools are in a position to try this.’”
Spider Man: Model New Day, In Theaters, July 31, 2026