Screen play: Variety.com's Bags and Boards went to The Punisher premiere and after-party, and sneaked in a couple of questions with Marvel Studios CEO Avi Arad about the differences between the comic and the film:

"When you bring a comic book to life, you want to elevate the art form. But in a movie, you cannot do four frames like you can in a comic book. We thought that this was a good way to dramatize that he didn't really want to be alive. He just wanted to exact punishment and go."