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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