News Spider-Man: Brand New Day The Punisher and Spider-Man Will Hang Out in the Next Spider-Film A new problematic dad figure arises for Peter Parker… By Molly Templeton | Published on June 23, 2025 Credit: Marvel Studios / Disney+ Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Marvel Studios / Disney+ It’s been a few months since the last bit of Spider-news, which saw the next Tom Holland-starring movie finally get a title: Spider-Man: Brand New Day. (It will also have a new redhead in the form of Sadie Sink, though it’s still not clear who she’ll be playing.) But now there’s a new adult in Peter Parker’s life. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jon Bernthal has signed on to play Frank Castle/The Punisher in the film. Bernthal’s Punisher has been a large part of a different corner of the Marvel universe, cropping up on the original Netflix Daredevil, starring in his own Netflix series, and then reappearing in Daredevil: Born Again (pictured above). Brand New Day will be this Punisher’s big-screen debut (though of course there have been other big-screen Punishers in the past). THR notes that Bernthal had “one nonnegotiable” detail for his appearance in the new Daredevil: “maintaining the character’s violent, R-rated feel.” How exactly that will play out against the PG-13, family-friendly antics of the Spider-Man films is certainly a question. Bernthal and Holland have c0-starred together before this, in 2017’s Pilgrimage; earlier this year, Bernthal told Jimmy Kimmel Live that while filming that movie, they “made each other’s audition tapes” for their Marvel roles. Spider-times aside, they’ll also reunite in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Shang-Chi’s Destin Daniel Cretton directs Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which is set to swing into theaters on July 31st, 2026.[end-mark] The post The Punisher and Spider-Man Will Hang Out in the Next Spider-Film appeared first on Reactor.