That seems like jumping the gun, I don’t think it’ll stifle Marvel’s creativity. The worst that may come out of this is Disney may only want to release one or two Marvel films a year instead instead of Marvel Studios’ original of three to four. For all we know Disney is gonna let Marvel keep doing things how they have been doing them.

One of the great things to actually come out of this is the prospect of the folks over at Pixar doing a Marvel film, which is just a flat out awesome. Regarding the Marvel Knights line of films, I’m hard pressed to think of another character besides the Punisher that would benefit from an R rated treatment, as much as the fanboys want it not every comic story needs to be grim and gritty. And again like mentioned Disney owns Miramax which released a lot Tarantino’s films, There Will Be Blood, no Country for Old Men, Bad Santa. So the option for Marvel to put out Marvel Knights films is still viable.

Back to the Punisher, even if PWZ did good at the box office and Marvel got the rights back from Lionsgate somehow, I’m in the minority in thinking that a PG-13 Punisher film could work, you would just have to rely on characters/dialogue and amp up the intensity and not solely rely on the gore (which, sorry to say is exactly the problem PWZ had).

I appreciate that Dibol. I grew up on Punisher comics but have to admit that until I was fortunate enough to be invited to PWZ cast I had lost touch with my comic collecting and thus had not see the new MAX series – and wow it was a whole other level. I mean, they were using some REALLY strong language haha.

At any rate, once I got up to speed on the way things were being done I understand exactly what Lexi and the gang were doing.

The thing that most upsets me about this takeover by Disney is not ultimately whether or not they will ever be able to make something like PWZ again, but that Marvel itself will become gentrified the way that Disney did with Jim Henson’s brilliantly creative world.

It will undoubtedly engender even more homogeneity due to the fact that, at best, its all coming more and more from the same place. I created this blog three years ago to promote diversity in our culture, to keep things from becoming sanitized, and institutionally sanctioned and only “when approved by”. This deal is a nail in the coffin for that aim.

PWZ may have bombed but the idea of Marvel Knights stories being made was of great interest to fans, that is more the concern, not so much that Punisher won’t be greenlit again for a long while. Thanks for commenting!

But, Disney does own Miramax, so if Marvel was to be so inclined as to do R rated films for lesser known characters, they got a studio right there. Though because Punisher: War Zone bombed so horribly, it basically killed the character for the foreseeable future film wise and this whole Disney/Marvel thing wouldn’t have affected it anyway.