New Story Details on The Batman-Inspired TV Series PENNYWORTH
A few months ago we learned that Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller was developing a new Batman-inspired series that will focus on Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred Pennyworth. The series will be called Pennyworth, and we knew that it would be set in a completely different universe than Gotham. This is an "entirely new story exploring Alfred's origins as a former British SAS soldier who forms a secret company and goes to work with Thomas Wayne — Bruce's billionaire father — in 1960s London."
Now thanks to That Hashtag Show, we have some new details on the series to share with you and it sounds like it could end up being a great show. Here are the details that were shared:
The series, which is set to begin production in the UK in late November, will find Alfred in London in his mid-20s in trying to find his way in the world. A former SAS member who ran highly classified missions for the British government, Alfred is trying to reconcile the kind-hearted boy he once was with the ruthless killer he was forced to become. Then series will see him try to reconcile his new age ambitions with the expectations of his father, a proud, stubborn and capable butler known as Mr. P, who,along with his wife, has spent his life in service of a wealthy family and hoped his son would do the same.
The report goes on to shed some light on the major role Bruce's father Thomas Wayne will have in the series. Of course, this version of Thomas will also be much younger:
Alfred will find himself allied with Thomas through his work for a private security company when Thomas arrives in London in search of his sister, Patricia.. The two will be contemporaries, and the 20-something Wayne is said to be intelligent, deeply moral and idealistic, characteristics that Alfred will come to instill in Thomas’s orphaned son.
There are also two other main characters that will join Alfred and Thomas on their adventure and that adventure will involve taking on the villainous Raven Society:
The series will see Alfred, Thomas and two of Alfred’s closest friends, Trinidadian Marcus “Bazza” Barrington and Scotsman Wallace “Dave Boy” MacDuff, take on the villainous Raven Society. Led by the mysterious Lord Hardwood and his sadistic henchwoman, Bet Sykes, the Raven Society will find themselves in what sounds like a season long game of cat-and-mouse with our heroes after Sykes abducts a dancer by the name of Esme Whitaker. The heroes will battle Hardwood and the corrupt London police force in an effort to rescue Whitaker and will have to come to trust one another to do so, setting the table for one of comics’ greatest relationships.
I liked what Heller did with Gotham and I'm pretty excited to see how this series comes together. I really like what I'm hearing here! I wonder who they are going to get to star in the series.
Epix Network has partnered with DC for Pennyworth, and they will produce 10-episodes. The series will most likely air in the fall of 2019.