We're all pretty excited by Netflix's upcoming The Punisher series, though it doesn't sound like it's going to be the usual, fun Marvel fare we're used to.
Jon Bernthal will reprise his role as Frank Castle from Daredevil season two in the standalone series, and has revealed that it will be "dark and brutal".
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"During this show, nobody is who they appear to be," he told Entertainment Weekly. "This season is much darker as it goes, it gets darker and darker and more visceral.
"The show takes you on this journey of Frank becoming more and more human again and then shutting off and shutting off and going back to what works for him, and the place where he kind of belongs, and I think that's a place of solitude and of darkness and destruction.
"It's going to get into as dark and as brutal a place as you've ever seen in the Marvel world, I can promise you that."
Bernthal further explained of the Frank we see in The Punisher: "The Frank Castle you see in Daredevil is reeling from the trauma of having his family killed, so the only thing he knows is his mission to kill every single person who's responsible for his family's death, and killing them in the most brutal way possible, because that's the only way to quiet the storm that's in his head.
"He can only quiet it momentarily by taking these people out.
"He's a man on a mission again [in The Punisher], and what [Punisher showrunner and Hannibal alum Steve] Lightfoot is trying to do is ask the question 'What do you do when that's over?
"'What do you find out about yourself when you realise there's nothing left? What is his purpose?' Here's an introspective bent in trying to figure that out. He finds something to fight for, something new to believe in."
The Punisher hits Netflix later this year.
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