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Rumor: Netflix Developing A Punisher Series


It seems that Netflix is so happy with Jon Bernthal's work as the Punisher on the second season of Daredevil that they are considering the possibility of developing a spinoff focusing on the character even though he and it have yet to make their debut and be judged by fans.

"Viewers watching the show will be rooting for this guy with a gun but we’re also going to force people to second-guess themselves," said executive producer Doug Petrie in a recent interview to Entertainment Weekly. "Taking lethal justice into your own hands in America in 2015 is tricky s–t."

If a Punisher series is coming out (and let's wait for Sunday to hear what Netflix has in store for their TCA panel), he would be the first character to have a show that wasn't part of the original line-up announced by Marvel besides Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders, and there could be a significant and logical reason for that.

"He has a different moral code," said co-showrunner Marco Ramirez. "Matt is a devout Catholic — and you rarely see a character who’s a devotee anything on TV. Frank has Hammurabi’s Code. It’s like letting a great white shark into the water."

In a nutshell the Hammurabi Code is a very old (Babylonian) code consisting of 282 eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth laws, meaning we can expect Bernthal's Punisher to be as relentless and as violent as he is in the comics.

"One of the things I’m most excited for is I’m hoping the audience will go back and forth. There are things you can identify with and get behind, and there are things when the character pushes it and you can’t get behind him anymore. And that’s what I want," says Bernthal. "I think that’s the nature of the character. This is a guy who pushes the envelope. He’s brutal, but he’s coming from a place of unbelievable hurt. And the best thing about the character is he just doesn’t care. It’s a highly personal mission he’s on and if he offends you, it’s completely unimportant to him."

Daredevil returns March 18 on Netflix.

Source - TV Line
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