Colin Farrell has acknowledged that his Penguin spin-off collection can be eight episodes lengthy. On a podcast with Selection, the Oscar-nominated actor dropped key particulars in regards to the BatVerse collection, revealing that the timeline is ready a few week after the tip of Matt Reeves’ The Batman film. Filming will start quickly with Mare of Easttown’s Craig Zobel hooked up to direct. The information comes within the wake of DC Studios saying the discharge date for The Batman: Half II, scheduled to launch on October 3, 2025. It’s also value noting that The Penguin collection has been billed as an HBO Max manufacturing, so it may not drop on Disney+ Hotstar — as seen with Peacemaker, which was launched on Amazon Prime Video, seven months after the unique US airing.
“It is going to be an eight-part factor round Oz’s rise to energy, filling that energy vacuum created when Falcone was killed. Matt’s thought was to have the Penguin present start a few week after the tip of The Batman movie,” Farrell informed Selection. “And if it really works, if the trajectory is attention-grabbing, and the viewers goes for it, and we do our jobs proper, the second Penguin function will decide up the place the HBO present will finish.” Farrell’s feedback echo Reeves’ feedback from final month, which claimed that the collection can be ‘tightly related’ to the films’ arc, finally main into The Batman sequel. In an interview from final 12 months, the actor confirmed that the collection can be six to eight hours lengthy — typical style for an HBO present.
Farrell will reprise his function because the crime boss Oswald Cobblepot, with the collection charting his rise to the highest following Carmine Falcone’s (John Turturro) demise in The Batman. In the meantime, Cristin Milioti (Palm Springs) is hooked up to play the latter’s daughter Sophia Falcone, first launched within the acclaimed noir graphic novel, Batman: The Lengthy Halloween. For the reason that present is ready only a week after the occasions of the movie, Gotham Metropolis remains to be considerably underwater. “I learn the primary script of the primary episode and it opens up on my ft splashing by way of the water in Falcone’s workplace. Even that alone, once I learn it, I used to be like, ‘Oh, Jesus!”, Farrell informed Selection final 12 months.
Reeves, who will executive-produce The Penguin collection, can also be trying to broaden his grounded universe by additional exploring the Darkish Knight’s Rogues Gallery. Earlier studies prompt that the director was trying to inform spin-off tales of characters akin to Scarecrow, Clayface, and Professor Pyg. In the meantime, The Batman: Half II will proceed to deal with Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne, not like different iterations the place the villains take centrestage within the follow-ups. Reeves additionally has an Arkham collection within the works. The present was initially deliberate to be set throughout the GCPD (Gotham Metropolis Police Division) however switched gears to deal with the distant island-set asylum, Reeves revealed final 12 months.
Earlier this week, DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn revealed part of his 8–10 12 months plan for the brand new DC Universe, the place he confirmed that Reeves’ The Batman universe will run individually from the mainline arc and that will probably be strictly labelled as ‘DC Elseworlds’. The identical rule applies to Todd Phillips’ Joker sequel and Teen Titans GO! Moreover, the DCU will introduce a brand new Batman, alongside his organic son Damian Wayne as Robin. The movie is named The Courageous and the Daring, and is predicated on author Grant Morrison’s comedian e book run that sees Bruce assuming parenting duties.
At the moment, there isn’t any launch window for HBO Max’s The Penguin.
