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Context Trivia / PunisherWarZone

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1	* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $35 million. Box office, $10,100,036. Second least grossing of all the Marvel movies.
2	* CaliforniaDoubling: UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} stands in for UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. This is noticeable in the subway scenes, [[JustTrainWrong where no effort is made to disguise that those are Montreal Metro trains]].
3	* CreatorKiller: This did not get Marvel Knights off to a great start; they only made [[Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance one other film]], and that one didn't fare well either.
4	* FranchiseKiller: This film's bombing at the box office allowed Marvel Studios to regain the Punisher film rights; the next time the character was used, it was in Season 2 of ''Series/Daredevil2015'', which proved to be popular enough that he got [[Series/ThePunisher2017 his own Netflix show]].
5	* RoleReprise: In the Japanese dub, The Punisher is voiced by Creator/AkioOtsuka, who voiced him in the [[Film/ThePunisher1989 1989 film's]] dub.
6	* StarDerailingRole: Not for Ray Stevenson, who was able to [[CareerResurrection bounce back]] into prominence (funnily enough, via another Marvel role – Volstagg in ''Film/{{Thor}}''), but for Creator/JulieBenz. This was the third poorly-received film of 2008 where the actress had a significant role, the first two being ''Film/RamboIV'' and ''Film/SawV''. While those films at least had adequate financial returns, this film's Box Office Bomb status extinguished Benz's chance of becoming a leading lady in film. Since this film's failure, her most notable work has been on TV.
7	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
8	** The movie was meant to be a sequel to the [[Film/ThePunisher2004 2004 film]]. However, departures from both Creator/ThomasJane and Jonathan Hensleigh scrapped the idea altogether, also, [[https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1605600/why-marvel-rejected-kurt-sutters-punisher-2-script-according-to-kurt-sutter Marvel rejected Kurt Sutter's script]], making ''War Zone'' a [[ContinuityReboot stand-alone reboot]].
9	** A great source of this sort of information as well as ExecutiveMeddling is the ''Podcast/HowDidThisGetMade'' [[https://www.earwolf.com/episode/punisher-war-zone/ podcast's episode about the film]].
10	** One draft of the script was written by ''Series/TheShield'' writer and ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' creator Kurt Sutter.
11	** According to director Lexi Alexander, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr auditioned for the part of Jigsaw and was apparently quite good but the executives told her [[ExecutiveMeddling not to cast him when they had to MAKE her see him for an audition]].

Context Trivia / PunisherWarZone