THE BATMAN Is Getting an HBO Max Spinoff Series Focusing on the Penguin

Matt Reeves’ The Batman is getting another spinoff series and this one will focus on the classic villain The Penguin. The series is being produced for HBO Max, and it will be executive produced by Dylan Clark and Matt Reeves along with DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television.

The series is described as a “Scarface-like” series about the rise of the Penguin character. The Penguin, otherwise known as Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, “is a dapper mob boss and one of Batman’s primary villains.”

Colin Farrell is set to play Penguin in The Batman, but there is no information on if Farrell will reprise his role in the series. I certainly hope he does! In the film, The Penguin is not the big crime kingpin of Gotham City, I imagine that this series will tell the story of how he rises to power.

The previously announced spinoff series will focus on the Gotham City Police Department. It “will build upon the film’s examination of the anatomy of corruption in Gotham City, launching a new Batman universe across multiple platforms. The series will extend the world established in the movie and further explore the myriad of complex characters of Gotham.”

Reeves previously shared that the prequel to his Batman: Year Two movie is set in Batman Year One when a “masked vigilante … starts to unsettle the city.” The series will zero in on the city’s corruption that “goes back many years” and is told from the POV of a crooked cop.

I’m excited about both of these shows! It’ll especially be cool to see a story that focuses on the Penguin’s rise to power in Gotham City.

Source: Deadline