By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America (Steven Lightfoot) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Self-proclaimed 'Fannibals' will want to take note here, because Steven Lightfoot - Bryan Fuller's longtime collaborator on NBC's Hannibal - is running the show once more.
Cool name aside, Lightfoot's involvement in the Punisher is very encouraging. The first two seasons of Hannibal made for some truly magnetic television, and while the third season was a bit slow to start, it was still fantastic. Buoyed by the formidable performances of Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, the show garnered a reputation for its convincing (and sometimes horrifying) adaptation of Thomas Harris' books, and with such a reputation in place, there's plenty of reason to be optimistic regarding Lightfoot's involvement in the Punisher.
We know for certain that he's written the first three episodes of the series, so expect it to kick off with a strong start. One would also suspect that it'll be the darkest Netflix offering yet, so be prepared for some pretty gruesome imagery come November.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
