New Poster for THE PENGUIN Series – “The City Will Be His”

Max has released a new poster for Mattia Reeves’next DC series The penguina spin-off of The Batman. Comes with the slogan “The city will be his.”

The poster features Colin Farrell as Penguin, who is trying to take control of Gotham’s criminal organization.

The eight-episode Penguin series has been described as a “Scarred“-like” that will see the rise of the villain in the criminal underworld of Gotham City.

Speaking previously about the film, Farrell said: “I think it’s going to be eight parts for HBO that focus on Oz’s rise to power, filling that power vacuum that was created when Falcone was killed. Matt [Reeves]The original idea was to have the Penguin show start about a week after the Batman movie ended.

“And then, if it works, if the trajectory is interesting enough and if the audience is into it and if we do our job well, we’ll have the second movie: Penguin in the second movie and pick up where the HBO series ends.”

He said in another interview: “It’s dark, that’s what I can tell you about it. It’s really dark, and really heavy, I think, he was certainly doing that.”

Speaking about the story, he said: “It’s a man’s ascension to what he’s always dreamed of inhabiting, which is a certain power or status. And the death of Carmine Falcone at the end of the film leaves this void in Gotham to fill.

“And so there are various people trying to grab that power and this is Oswald’s journey, trying to get to the top, through extraordinary obstacles and it’s super dark. Lauren LeFranc has written a really twisted eight hours of television.”

The stars of the series Christin Miliotiwho plays the female lead Sofia Falcone, and Happy Rhenzywho plays a teenager who Penguin befriends and becomes his driver. The rest of the cast includes Michael Kelly (House of Cards, Jack Ryan), Shohreh Aghdashloo’s Diary (The Expanse, House of Sand and Fog) AND Deirdre O’Connell (External range).

Lauren LeFranc will be the writer and showrunner of the series and, speaking about it, he said: “I have long been a fan of the world of The Batmanand Matt’s film is a powerful and bold entry into the canon.

“I’m thrilled and honored to continue telling stories set in the dirty underworld of Gotham City, and what better excuse to bring out my evil side than to tell the story of Oswald Cobblepot?

“I’m thrilled to be working with Colin, Matt, Dylan, 6th & Idaho, Warners and HBO Max as we work to bring this story to the screen.”

The series will debut on September 19.