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HBO Max Officially Announces The Penguin Series Starring Colin Farrell

Robert Pattinson becomes Batman in the new movie based on the DC Comics superhero. (Warner Bros.)

The narrative of batman has big plans to expand beyond the big screen, and one of those spin-off projects will be a series focused on Oswald Cobblepot (The Penguin). For some time now, there has been a lot of talk about this production that Warner Bros. would launch after the film’s release in theaters, and the announcement has finally come to cause more anticipation about how this story will continue through another perspective.

Through social networks, the DC Comics account shared the official message about this television fiction that can be seen soon on streaming: “Every story has a beginning. The Penguin (working title), a new limited series starring Colin Farrell, comes to hbo max. Matt Reeves, Dylan Clark, Colin Farrell and Lauren LeFranc will serve as executive producers.”

The story that we will see on the small screen will automatically place us after the events of the original film, in which the British actor Robert Pattinson gives life to Dark Knight. The purpose of this miniseries will be to pay special attention to how the struggle for power occurs when the city has lost its greatest leader of crime and darkness that characterizes the most dangerous facet of Gotham.

Reeves admitted that only Farrell could have exploited the villain in such a way. batman and “having the opportunity to further explore the life of this character in hbo max is incredible”. In that sense, the American filmmaker made it known how excited he was to work together with Clark and LeFran (the screenwriter and showrunner) to “continue the story of Oz as he rises to power in Gotham.”

More series based on DC Comics characters

the suicide squad, by James Gunn, was released in 2021 and garnered positive feedback from viewers. In this way, he easily managed to overcome the 2016 film failure – directed by David Ayer – that focused on the same group of villains. Parallel to filming, the director worked on the script for peacemakera spin off television starring John Cena in the role of the antihero. This title became the first series that officially integrates the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) and was a resounding success with its release of episodes week after week.

Could it be that Warner Bros. plan is to maintain this formula for its new films? For now, it has worked remarkably well and has managed to put the audience’s eyes on the content of the superhero genre on HBO Max. The turn will now be batman and its derivative productions, which would not have been possible without the vision of Matt Reeves in the director’s chair.

To date, they are two proposals for TV that will take place in this same universe of the Gotham vigilante: the first, as we mentioned above, will be about The Penguin; and the second will deal with the corruption within the Police Department in the city and will have Jim Gordon as one of the main characters. Recently, it was revealed that the latter will also include a connection with Arkham Asylum, the asylum where most criminals with mental problems such as Joker, Harley Quinn, The Riddler, among others, are sent.

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