Korey Frederick March 14th, 2024 - 1:00 PM
According to ComicBook, fans were elated after a Jon Bernthal (Fury, The Walking Dead) Instagram post had a reference to one of his iconic characters, The Punisher. Bernthal is expected to portray the character again in the new Daredevil: Born Again series on Disney+.
Bernthal posted a fictitious book cover titled One Batch, Two Batch, after his character Frank Castle’s famous quote, “one batch, two batch, penny, and dime.”
In The Punisher, the children’s book was his daughter Lisa Castle’s favorite. She would continually ask him to read the book to her before she went to bed. A major moment in the series is Frank Castle’s flashback to the night before his family was murdered, and his daughter wanted the book to be read to her again.
In the season two episode “Penny and Dime,” Castle talks about the origin of the phrase, “I read her that book every night before this shit. I read it every single night, but, see, that was over now because Daddy’s home now. She looked at me and she begged me, Red. She begged. She begged. I said, ‘No. Daddy’s too tired, see. But I’ll I’ll read to you tomorrow night. I’ll read to you tomorrow night, I promise. Yeah. Never think that for her there was not gonna be any tomorrow, see. The last time I’d see her, I’d be holding her lifeless body in my arms.”
According to ComicBook, due to Bernthal’s involvement in Daredevil: Born Again, it’s theorized that the reason he posted the cover is due to feeling nostalgia for his character in the series The Punisher, which ended five years ago.
According to mxdwn, Daredevil: Born Again will star Charlie Cox (Kin, Echo) as the blind lawyer-turned-superhero Matt Murdock, Vincent D’Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent, lift) as mob boss Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin, and Bernthal as the Punisher.
Daredevil: Born Again is expected to be released on Disney+ in 2025.
Bernthal’s post seen below:
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