Mike Cecchini Aug 24, 2017
The Punisher, starring Dolph Lundgren, was the first Marvel superhero movie. It's not as bad as you've heard...
1989's The Punisher is Marvel's first superhero movie.
When you see it written out this way, it is really weird, isn't it? But it's true. The Punisher, the 1989 movie starring Dolph Lundgren as Marvel's premiere vigilante, really is the first Marvel superhero movie. While other Marvel superheroes (most notably Hulk and Spider-Man) had shown up in TV movies and series, they weren't big screen concerns. The 1944 Captain America movie serial doesn't count, because it's a serial not a feature film. The 1986 Howard the Duck movie is technically the first Marvel film, but he isn't a superhero. None of 'em tick all the appropriate boxes. The Punisher, for better or worse, does.
The Punisher was written by Boaz Yakin (who eventually went on to direct Remember The Titans and co-write...
The Punisher, starring Dolph Lundgren, was the first Marvel superhero movie. It's not as bad as you've heard...
1989's The Punisher is Marvel's first superhero movie.
When you see it written out this way, it is really weird, isn't it? But it's true. The Punisher, the 1989 movie starring Dolph Lundgren as Marvel's premiere vigilante, really is the first Marvel superhero movie. While other Marvel superheroes (most notably Hulk and Spider-Man) had shown up in TV movies and series, they weren't big screen concerns. The 1944 Captain America movie serial doesn't count, because it's a serial not a feature film. The 1986 Howard the Duck movie is technically the first Marvel film, but he isn't a superhero. None of 'em tick all the appropriate boxes. The Punisher, for better or worse, does.
The Punisher was written by Boaz Yakin (who eventually went on to direct Remember The Titans and co-write...
- 8/20/2017
- Den of Geek
Well here it is, my second issue of 'Comic-Book Heroes, Then & Now', and this time I'll be looking at Dolph Lundgren in 1989's 'The Punisher', as well as Thomas Jane in the role in 2004's 'The Punisher'. For those of you who missed my first issue where I looked at 'Batman', check it out Here The Punisher (1989) Directed by Mark Goldblatt Starring: Dolph Lundgren - Frank Castle/The Punisher Louis Gossett Jr. - Jake Berkowitz Jeroen Krabbe - Gianni Franco Kim Miyori - Lady Tanaka Budget - $9-11 million Gross Revenue - N/A Now it's been quite a long time since I've seen this movie so I'll have to rely mostly on memory and the internet to help me write this. Not many people have seen this version of The Punisher due to it not having a theatrical release in the Us because of extreme financial difficulties at the time,...
- 3/5/2011
- ComicBookMovie.com
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