The Batman Director First Suggested Penguin Spinoff As A Movie
When The Batmandirector Matt Reeves first idly suggested Colin Farrell's Penguin get a spinoff, he actually envisioned it as a movie. This week, Reeves' The Batman will turn the DC universe on its head. The eagerly-anticipated film has been in the works for several years now and endured a handful of delays at the hands of the coronavirus pandemic, but it is finally ready to make its way out into the world. Robert Pattinson stars as Bruce Wayne, now in his second year of being Gotham's controversial vigilante. Though this project comes from Warner Bros., the home of the inter-connected DCEU, The Batman takes place within its own world.
And yet, said world is being positioned to become its own inter-connected universe. In addition to the big screen sequels that are almost certainly on the way, Warner Bros. and Reeves are working on two HBO Max spinoffs. The first involves the Gotham PD and Jim Gordon (Jeffrey Wright), while the second follows the rise of crime lord Oswald «Oz» Cobblepot, aka the Penguin. Farrell plays Oswald for The Batman, but since the movie only features him as a mid-level figure in Gotham's crime world, his forthcoming spinoff will reveal how he becomes the notorious villain fans know so well.
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The Penguin spinoff, like the Gotham PD project, will be a show on HBO Max. However, when Reeves casually mentioned it to the execs at Warner Bros., he described it as something else. Speaking to Variety as part of a recent profile, Reeves revealed he thought the Penguin's transformation into a kingpin could be covered in The Batman 2. However, that's not what WB thought. "And they were like, ‘Oh, we want to do that as a show,’" Reeves
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