It’s become tradition for Tom Holland’s Spider-Man to team up with other major players from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in his solo movies. This time around for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, along with Mark Ruffalo reprising Bruce Banner (it hasn’t been confirmed if we’ll see him in Hulk form), Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle, a.k.a. The Punisher, will make his film debut in the upcoming Marvel movie after years of killing bad guys in the TV space. We got a brief taste of what to expect between Punisher and Spidey in the first Brand New Day trailer, and Holland has now shared why he thinks these two together might be his “favorite dynamic” yet for his Peter Parker.
Peter and Frank are clearly not vibing in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, as the latter hits the former with his van and shoots at him because he’s in the way, prompting the web-slinger to kick the gun-toting vigilante out of said van. These two take quite difference approaches to crimefighting, and it’s that very polarization that appeals to Tom Holland, as he said during an interview when he visited the Empire State Building:
