Question: About Punisher 2. What is your take on that sort of property as far as crime hit men?

John Dahl: You know I had talked to them about doing that but I’m actually not doing it.

You decided not to?

Yeah.

So what happened then? Because we were excited about you doing it.

I love the idea of a kick-ass vigilante that’s got a really black sense of humor that can throw three people into a trash can and light them on fire and walk away while they’re screaming. That just sounded funny to me. But I wasn’t sure that the script could really get there, that would have that sense of humor. And it also felt like it had too much baggage, not in a bad way… there was just too much… I’d be sort of digging myself out of a hole right from the beginning.

So what is your next project?

Right now there are some feature films that I’m looking at but nothing…they’re all complicated to put together. But I am going to be directing an episode of "Californication."

While many thought the sequel to "The Punisher" would’ve moved forward by now, with Thomas Jane off the project and now John Dahl, the question is will we ever see another film starring Frank Castle?