Tom Holland and Jon Bernthal have been buddies for a long time. The pair first worked together on the 2017 Irish medieval film Pilgrimage and were auditioning for their Marvel roles as Peter Parker and Frank Castle before the indie film’s release. Needless to say, they both landed their respective jobs!cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});But while Bernthal’s antihero The Punisher has lingered on TV in the years since, first on Netflix in his own solo show and then making the move to Disney+ with the rest of the Netflix-Marvel cast for Daredevil: Born Again and a one-off Special Presentation, Holland’s Spider-Man has gone on to appear in a string of box office smashes. Now, their two iconic Marvel characters are finally about to collide for the first time in this summer’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but it might not be the last time we see these two mismatched Marvel heroes onscreen together if Holland gets his way.“I would love to pop up in one of [Punisher’s] shows,” Holland recently told Empire. “Let’s see what an R-rated version of Spider-Man looks like. I’m so grateful for Jon for taking the leap and being a part of the film, and I would love to repay the favour.”While the idea of an R-rated Spider-Man cameo in a Punisher project sounds unlikely, especially if you’ve recently checked out the ultraviolent Disney+ special The Punisher: One Last Kill, Holland holds a lot of sway in what happens with Spider-Man these days. In a recent interview with GQ during press for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the actor revealed that he even convinced Sony to delay the release of Brand New Day so he could star in the forthcoming epic, in which Bernthal also co-stars as King Menelaus of Sparta.Holland also noted that his experience on Nolan’s film pushed him into a slightly different headspace when he eventually did reach the set of Destin Daniel Cretton’s Marvel fourquel.“I was really able to lay down the law and say, ‘We are not going to come to set and figure it out,’” Holland explained. “‘We need to know why we are making this movie beyond the fact that it’s Spider-Man 4 and they make loads of money, and we’re going to just have a big summer. Why are we making this movie?’ And Destin was super instrumental in that, but it was just really great to constantly be calling up the studio and [producers] Amy [Pascal] and Rachel [O’Connor], who I love, and be like, ‘Well, Chris is doing it this way. This is how I think we should be doing it.’”Spider-Man: Brand New Day is set for release on July 31.The post Tom Holland Ready for R-Rated Punisher Crossover After Spider-Man: Brand New Day appeared first on Den of Geek.