National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Lionsgate released The Punisher in April 2004, adapting Marvel's long-running vigilante comic for a post-9/11 action landscape. Directed by Jonathan Hensleigh and starring Thomas Jane in the title role, the film found a devoted audience on home video even after a modest theatrical run, cementing its place as a cult entry in the early wave of Marvel adaptations before the studio system fully embraced the genre.

This cell captures Joan during the sequence indicated by the confirmed title, Spacker Confronts - Joan With a Knife. The frames follow her through what reads as a corridor or domestic interior, the composition shifting between a wider split arrangement and a tighter close-up as she appears to reach for a telephone. It is a quiet, tense moment centered entirely on her.