A very interesting little tidbit raised its head at the weekend as Captain America: The Winter Soldier directors Joe and Anthony Russo were once again talking about the movie and hinted that we may have already met one Frank Castle.
Talking to Comingsoon, the pair dropped a little nugget of gloriously tantalising information. It turns out that twice in the movie the heroes are saved by a yellow truck:
The presence of the same truck TWICE at vital times may not have been a simple coincidence or mistake: “The man who drives that truck,” says Joe, “Is very highly trained. He thinks on his own terms. He’s got a plan and a very specific skill set.”
Now that could mean it’s either Liam Neeson from the Taken movies (I’m actually ok with that) OR it’s Frank Castle AKA The Punisher. The character of Castle in the comics was a former soldier whose entire family was killed by the mob and who then dedicated his life to becoming an unstoppable killing machine – kind of Batman if Batman were a bloodthirty murderer who will use anything to kill the bad guys.
The Punisher has been made into three movies so far, but none were by Marvel directly and the rights are back where they belong now so it’s entirely possible, nae likely, that we’ll be seeing Castle very soon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (we reckon it’s very possible he’ll be in the Netflix Daredevil series)…
Also, anyone else think Liam Neeson would be an AWESOME Punisher? No, just me? Maybe 15 years ago… Ah well…
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