India, July 23 -- For over a decade, five Spider-Man films hit the theatres, but the character existed in isolation, away from the large world that Marvel Studios was building with its secondary heroes all this time. Then, Tom Holland's Spider-Man debuted in Captain America: Civil War and the crossover finally happened. Marvel's biggest superhero was finally in Marvel's biggest franchise. A decade on, the fourth solo Tom Holland film - Spider-Man: Brand New Day - brings new Marvel fan favourites into Spidey's world. The most unusual of these is Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, one of the darkest and bloodiest Marvel characters, who enters the much lighter, sanitised world of the MCU.

At a recent press conference for the film, Jon Bernthal...