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Daredevil - Steven DeKnight Wants To Adapt The Punisher

Mar 31, 2015

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With Netflix raising the bar on what’s acceptable on the small-screen, Marvel fans have one character right at the top of their wishlist for a Daredevil spin-off, and showrunner Steven DeKnight is of the same mind.

“I’ve been a huge fan of the Punisher comics for years,” says DeKnight, speaking exclusively to SciFiNow.”I’d love to see him get his due on a platform like this. Nothing would delight me more than to see the Punisher get his own show and maybe we could convince Marvel to go Hard-R rating. If any character deserves an R rating, it’s the Punisher.”

Indeed, bearing in mind the various blood-splattered scenes we’ve seen in the trailer, we can see the Punisher fitting seamlessly into the world, perhaps as a character who faces off against Daredevil. Considering the similarities between the two characters, it would be a great face-off, something that series Charlie Cox agrees with.

23 comments:

  1. I think Marvel and DeKnight should wait to see how Daredevil turns out first before diving into a character many people have brought to the screen and all have met negative outcomes.

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  2. given that Daredevil already has 4 spin-offs following it's safe to say that Marvel bets heavily on the show being good

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  3. They're not spinoffs. They're separate projects helmed by different EPs. They're linked by the Defenders mini and Marvel's "it's all connected" mantra.

    It's only natural to see what reception is to DeKnight's first Marvel project before handing him a second, more problematic project.

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  4. I don't know if I would consider the other Netflix shows spinoffs of Daredevil (except for The Defenders maybe) but I do think Marvel expects them to be a huge succes.

    I can definitely see them doing superheroes like Punisher or Blade after Defenders.

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  5. I can't keep track anymore

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  6. A spin-off is a show that originates within the context of another show. Since Jessica Jones will be introduced on Daredevil her show is a spin-off of that.

    The same way the Flash is a spin-off Jessica Jones will be.


    Now, if she didn't show up on Daredevil I would agree but it's launching from Daredevil, thus it's a spin-off

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  7. Wesley Snipes is pushing hard for Blade 4 and I doubt they'll ever do another Blade television series (yep, there was one on SpikeTV a couple of years ago)

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  8. using Daredevil as a launching pad does turn it into a spin-off.

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  9. Doesen't matter where the idea originates from, if you produce a piece of media and try to get something rolling the first released product is the mother-ship, everything that follows is spun-off from that, nevermind the conception


    Three years ago we wouldn't have had such a discussion

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  10. I see it all more like a shared universe, the shows were conceived individually but at the same time and all four shows are meant to lead the way to the defenders so...I think is more complicated than all being spinoffs . I'd actually could agree to say they're all spin-off of each other.
    And one last thing I didnt know Jessica Jones would appear in Daredevil is that confirmed?

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  11. Sticking a character in a show for introductory or cameo purposes doesn't make the subsequent project a spinoff if they were all conceived and planned concurrently as one initiative. It's not a spinoff.

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  12. Gee, let's call that one even

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  13. The problem here and the confussion is the fact that all four shows were conceived at the same time and with a bigger plan in mind. Its hard to say what they are, as I said in my other comment Id just call it shows in a shared universe.

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  14. no, it is
    no, it's not
    no, it is
    no, it's not


    we're totally grown ups ;P

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  15. I agree with Bruce_F. The Defenders series are not spinoffs. Arguing that would be arguing that the Inhumans movie is a spinoff of Agents of Shield or Black Panther is a spinoff of Captain America Civil War.

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  16. Well, that's basically what this. These are separate projects existing in the same Marvel "it's all connected" universe.

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  17. Yep. To me a spinoff would be if Marvel and Netflix now decided to do a Kingpin series with D'onofrio

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  18. Introduce Punisher in S2 of Daredevil first. That pair-up needs to be made in live-action.

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  19. The Punisher would be fun television show.

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  20. Yes make it happen plz!. I always said a Punisher TV series is a better idea then the films bc you can't really redeem his character in 2 hrs on screen. Its takes time for someone to redeem themselves and given how bad ass his character i can see this working.

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  21. I don't really care about The Punisher... I do want Netflix and Marvel to keep doing business though. I just hope all these Netflix projects are linked to AoS and AC.

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  22. Well... if they do the Punisher Netwflix is the ideal venue... and I would trust DeKNight with the source material.



    But leeeeeeets see how he does with Matt first...

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