Matt Reeves’ upcoming sequel to “The Batman” might have been delayed to 2026, however followers will nonetheless have an opportunity to revisit his darkish model of Gotham City later this 12 months. Reeves is producing “The Penguin,” an upcoming Max spinoff series that sees Colin Farrell reprising his function because the villainous mob boss Oswald “Oz” Cobblepot as he rebuilds his crime operation after the occasions of “The Batman.”
Farrell’s prosthetic-laden efficiency as Oz (higher identified by his legal alias “The Penguin”) was seen by many as a excessive level of “The Batman” regardless of solely showing in a handful of scenes. In a brand new interview with MovieZine, Farrell teased that the present gained’t maintain again from exploring the brutality of the character.
“It’s dark, that’s what I can tell you about it,” Farrell stated of the sequence, which hails from showrunner Lauren LeFranc. “It’s really dark. It’s really heavy, I think — it certainly was doing it. Which is not to say I didn’t have fun, I had an amazing time doing it. It’s incredibly violent. It’s one man’s rise to what he’s always dreamed of inhabiting, which is a certain power or social status.”
Farrell went on to say that the absence of John Turturro’s Carmine Falcone, who dominated over Oswald within the first movie, offers the character room to really pursue his grandiose ambitions.
“The death of Carmine Falcone at the end of [‘The Batman’] leaves this vacuum in Gotham to be filled, and so there are various people that are grabbing for that power,” he stated. “This is Oswald’s journey trying to rise to the top through extraordinary obstacles.”
Farrell has lengthy been an advocate for the character of The Penguin, explaining that he pushed for the sequence after feeling like “The Batman” didn’t showcase every part Oswald needed to provide.
“I just thought it was the tip of the iceberg, pardon the pun, that we were getting to do the six or seven scenes that we did in the film. I was grateful for them, but I wanted more,” Farrell said in 2023. “We have to get into what made him the man he is. And also, it will pick up where this film finished off, I think. I think it’ll pick up a little short time after the last frame of this film. We’ll get to go on a little kind of left turn off to the world of Oz and how he’s beginning to kind of dream of filling a potential power vacuum that may exist.”
“The Penguin” is predicted to stream on Max in Fall 2024.
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