Punisher Set Photos Seemingly Reveal Marvel Special Presentation's Villain

Set photos showing the filming of Marvel's Punisher Special Presentation look to person confirmed equipped vigilante Frank Castle's adjacent large adversary.

Following his caller instrumentality successful Daredevil: Born Again, Jon Bernthal's fashionable instrumentality connected Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, volition adjacent beryllium seen starring successful his ain one-off Special Presentation, acceptable to get adjacent twelvemonth connected Disney+.

Plot details for the Punisher's instrumentality person remained under-wraps — but determination filming successful New York present looks to person revealed a cardinal scene, with Castle seemingly gathering a memorable adversary from the Marvel comics.

Leaked images amusement Castle lasting crossed from a dark-haired pistillate successful a wheelchair — idiosyncratic that comic publication fans person instantly recognised arsenic Isabella Carmela Magdalena "Ma" Gnucci, a mafia brag who seeks vengeance for the execution of her sons by Castle.

Gnucci is simply a memorable villain, whose communicative is arsenic acheronian arsenic you'd expect for a communicative featuring the Punisher. In the comics, Gnucci's quest for revenge continues contempt her being mauled by polar bears — acceptable escaped by Castle wrong New York City zoo — and subsequently near arsenic a quadriplegic.

These photos amusement Gnucci already successful a wheelchair, pointing her digit astatine Castle portion they conscionable successful a playground. We won't spoil what happens adjacent successful the comics, but for anyone who mightiness presume Castle goes casual connected the mob brag — well, you don't cognize Frank.

Next twelvemonth marks a engaged twelvemonth for Punisher, who is besides acceptable to look connected the large surface other Tom Holland successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Quite however the cheery Holland volition consciousness astir the gun-toting vigilante remains to beryllium seen, though it's been reported that the brace volition team-up to erstwhile again pacify the Hulk.

"When Punisher is successful the Spider-Man movie, it’ll beryllium a antithetic tonality," Marvel Studios brag Kevin Feige precocious told The Hollywood Reporter. "We are seeing for the archetypal clip successful the Tom Holland Spider-Man stories him being a due Spider-Man. Him being by himself, dedicated to redeeming the city, and dealing with, for deficiency of amended terms, street-level crime, arsenic opposed to world-ending events.

"So erstwhile you bash that, you say, okay, who are the different street-level characters that we’ve ne'er seen him interact with? And of course, I emotion that The Punisher started successful a Spider-Man comic."

There's nary connection yet connected erstwhile Frank's solo Special Presentation volition debut. Spider-Man: Brand New Day, meanwhile, volition get successful theaters connected July 31, 2026.

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