There have been reports that Robert Pattinson’s Batman could appear in The Batman spin-off series The penguinbut according to the creators of the show this is not the case and they explain why they made this decision.
During an interview with SFX magazine, the showrunner and writer Lauren LeFranc he explained: “I understand why people want to have Batman, or think that if Batman isn’t in a series or a movie, it doesn’t have the same impact.
LeFranc continued: “For me, I think it has a different impact. Matt’s films are seen through the lens of Batman, so you’re up high, looking down on the city. It’s a different perspective.
“With Oz, you’re in the city streets, you’re in the gravel, the mud, and the dirt. He’s looking up, he wants to work his way to the top.”
Reeves went on to say that Batman not being in The Penguin doesn’t lose anything fundamental, saying the show is “an extension of what’s fundamentally there. We know this is Batman’s world.”
He added: “You’re taking a different path. So the specter of Batman is there. The specter of the Riddler is there. The specter of everything that happens in the last movie is there. It informs it. And that’s exactly where we start.”
The penguinThe showrunner also noted that the series is “a different experience. I think Gotham is an interesting enough city that it deserves to have more doors unlocked in it, and for us to walk through them and see what we think.”
Yes, I can believe that. You don’t need Batman to make the story good or interesting, you just need a good story and script for The Penguin, and it looks like they did it.
Colin Farrell reprises his role as Oswald Cobb who is making his moves to take control of Gotham’s criminal enterprise. The trailer gives an exciting look at what’s in store for this show, and it looks like it’s going to be a great detective series!
The eight-episode Penguin series has been described as a “Scarred-like” which will see the villain’s rise in the criminal underworld of Gotham City. It has also been confirmed that the series will lead directly into the events of Batman: Part Two.
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) have joined the DC series.
The series will debut on September 19.
by Joey Fear
Source: Geek Tyrant
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