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Spider-Man and the Punisher have been clashing and/or teaming up every since the skull-fixated vigilante made his first appearance in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man #129 in 1974. They’ve never crossed over in live action, though, probably owing to the wild to the wild inconsistencies in tone between the usual family friendly adventures of the ol’ Web-head and the rather more grim exploits of Mafia-murderin’ Frank Castle. Comics, bless ’em, tend to bulldozer over such concerns without batting an eyelid.
But director Destin Daniel Cretton will be managing that tonal mix in the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day, in which Tom Holland‘s freshly-impoverished and forgotten Spidey will team up with Jon Bernthal‘s none-more-angry mass killer.
Star Tom Holland, making his fourth solo outing as Spider-Man, swing by the Empire State Building to launch the record-breaking first trailer the other day. And in a a deeply charming short interview, he laid out the Punisher-Spidey dynamic as he sees it.
“I am so excited for people to see Jon Bernthal as the Punisher in this movie,” Holland says. “You know, he’s come from a very different world. He’s in the R-rated universe, and we’ve basically picked him up and plonked him into our world, and he absolutely sings in this movie. He is incredible.
“The relationship between Spider-Man and the Punisher is so funny,” he continues. “And it changed a lot, and it evolved a lot as we were shooting because Jon and I would improvise. It started as this relationship of two people that really kind of hate each other, I guess, and then as we started improvising, it became this big brother-little brother rivalry, and it might be my favourite dynamic that I’ve ever seen with Spider-Man.”
Co-starring Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando, and Mark Ruffalo, Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits cinemas on July 31.
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