During the San Diego Comic-Con panel for The Penguin, HBO premiered a new trailer for the Batman spin-off series, giving attendees a closer look at Colin Farrell’s portrayal of the notorious villain. The series picks up just one week after the events of The Batman, focusing on the power vacuum in Gotham’s criminal underworld following Carmine Falcone’s death.
“It’s a Scarface story,” lead writer and showrunner Lauren LeFranc recently told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s a rise-to-power story of Oz before he really makes it to the top. We’re in Oz’s world. We’re living in the underbelly of the city. Oz is a mover and a shaker. He can’t always be trusted. He’s very smart and very methodical, but he’s also extremely impulsive. You can’t predict what he’s going to do.”
The highly anticipated series featuring Colin Farrell is set to premiere on September 19 on HBO and Max, continuing the dark and expansive universe introduced by Matt Reeves in The Batman. This new series aims to delve deeper into the chaotic rise of The Penguin, as Reeves begins to expand his version of Gotham City with movies and TV shows.
Who else is attached to The Penguin series?
Mare Of Easttown helmer Craig Zobel is directing the first two episodes of The Penguin, with Lauren LeFranc (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Chuck) overseeing the project as its writer and showrunner. Colin Farrell is an executive producer on the series alongside The Batman director Matt Reeves and producer Dylan Clark.
Colin Farrell leads the cast of the HBO series as Oswald “Oz” Cobb, better known as The Penguin. He’s joined by Cristin Milioti, who portrays Sofia Falcone, the daughter of the late Carmine Falcone. The recurring cast features Clancy Brown as Salvatore Maroni, Michael Zegen as Alberto Falcone, and Michael Kelly as Johnny Vitti. Additional actors include Rhenzy Feliz, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, James Madio, Scott Cohen, Theo Rossi, Carmen Ejogo, François Chau, David H. Holmes, Craig Walker and Jared Abrahamson.
The Batman opened in theaters in March 2022, earning 770.8 million at the worldwide box office, a figure that makes it the seventh highest-grossing movie of 2022. Reeves is working on a sequel to the Warner Bros. project and currently writing its script alongside Mattson Tomlin.
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