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Jon Bernthal will return as Frank Castle in Disney+’s highly-anticipated Marvel series, Daredevil: Born Again. Michael B. Jordan is developing a small screen Creed universe at Amazon. Mike Schur and Ted Danson with reunite with a new Netflix comedy series inspire by documentary The Mole Agent. Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, and Bradley Cooper to produce documentaries at History Channel. Plus, trailers for the fourth and final season of Barry and Yellow jackets season 2 and more of the biggest news in TV and streaming of the past week.
We haven’t seen the last of Frank Castle. Jon Bernthal will reprise his role as The Punisher in Disney+’s Marvel TV series, Daredevil: Born Again. Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio will also return to their iconic roles of Daredevil and Kingpin in the highly-anticipated 18-episode project. THR first reported the news with the American Gigolo star confirming on Instagram his exciting return to the MCU.
Bernthal first took the reigns as the gun-toting vigilante in the second season of Netflix’s iteration of Daredevil in 2016 before starring in two seasons of his own action-packed series on the streamer before the TV series take on Marvel’s Defenders (which included Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist) were all canceled. That same year, Disney’s streaming service Disney+ officially launched. Two years later, Marvel chief Kevin Feige dropped the detail to THR that he considered Netflix’s street-level heroes to “still be in play.” Cox reprised the role of Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home whetting our appetites before suiting up again in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Once D’Onofrio appeared in Hawkeye, it was all but confirmed that The Man Without Fear would have a major presence on Disney+.
Fan favorite supporting characters Karen Page and Foggy Nelson are still in question, as Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson, the actors who played these roles, have not been announced to appear.As for what the show will be about, the title Daredevil: Born Again may be referencing Frank Miller’s classic comic storyline which first hit the shelves in 1986. It most certainly will deviate from the path, though, as Frank Castle never appeared in Miller’s tale. Daredevil: Born Again is scheduled for a 2024 release on Disney+.
MICHAEL B. JORDAN TO BRING THE CREED-VERSE TO LIFE AT AMAZON
With Creed III, the latest installment in the Creed boxing franchise, bringing in a record-breaking $100 million at the box office opening weekend, Amazon is allegedly working with star and filmmaker Michael B. Jordan to expand the story universe in the form of movie and television projects. According to an exclusive report from Deadline, Jordan has been floating ideas ranging from an anime series, a few different live-action TV projects, and a potential spinoff centering on Amara Creed, Adonis’s daughter, played by deaf newcomer Mila Davis-Kent.
Since Amazon acquired the MGM catalog, speculation has left many curious if a new Rocky Balboa series would in the streamer’s future. The previously announced spinoff movie centering on Rocky’s former foe, Russian boxer Ivan Drago’s (Dolph Lundgren) son Viktor (Florian Munteanu) is still in development for the big screen. “Building the Creed universe is something that I’m really excited about,” Jordan told Deadline at the Creed III premiere. What does the future hold for the Rocky-inspired franchise? We’ll have to wait to see.
NEW TRAILERS: HBO TEASES BARRY‘S TRAGIC END IN SEASON 4 TRAILER
The jig is almost up for Barry. As you’ll recall, season 3 came to an end with Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) in handcuffs. Acting teacher Gene Cousinou finally took his power back by reporting the hitman-turned-acting student to law enforcement.
Where do they go from here? Nowhere good, it seems
The above trailer offers the first look at the final season of HBO’s Emmy-winning dramedy. While Berkman is locked up, and Cousineau is being celebrated as a hero, it seems that everyone tied to the troubled murderer — from his former handler Monroe Fuches (Stephen Root) and joyful Chechen mobster NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) to his troubled ex-girlfriend Sally Reed (Sarah Goldberg) — will have a rough time coming to grips with his actions and the ways in which they may or may not have enabled his violence.
