The penguin is set to release on Max very soon, and executive producers Matt Reeves and Dylan Clark recently shared their hopes for Gotham’s future, the evolution of Oswald “Oz” Cobb, and his connections with The Batman Part II. Set to begin streaming September 19, The penguin See Colin Farrell return to his dynamic role as Oz Cobb in the immediate aftermath of The Batman Ending and the death of major Gotham crime boss Carmine Falcone. The series will also star How I Met Your MotherChristine Milioti as Sofia, Falcone’s daughter who has ambitions to rule Gotham.
Screen Rant Recently attended an exciting round table discussion with other journalists, asking both Reeves and Clark about the upcoming Penguin Series. Not only did the show’s executive producers express their excitement for the new series and working with showrunner Lauren LeFranc, but they also talked about his place and role in the larger Gotham story. Matt Reeves and Dylan Clark also provided some teases for the future ahead The penguin And The Batman Part II And the conversations that have already taken place.
Matt Reeves confirms that The Penguin is all about Oz Cobb’s POV
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Screen Rant: This version of Gotham is heavily populated by the city’s various crime families, and The penguin Make this very clear. I’m curious, how much room is there for more of Batman’s rogues gallery? Do you see it as sprawling as the comics?
Matt Reeves: I mean, one of the things that we’re excited to do, obviously, The movies are from Batman and Bruce’s point of viewAnd the only point of view breaks we did in the first film were Riddler’s, and only because it was a counterpoint to what was happening. You meant to wonder, wait, is this Batman’s point of view or the Riddler’s point of view? But really, these stories are about telling the arc of Batman, Bruce’s story, and he’s the emotional center. Of course, the rogues gallery will be in the movies. That’s the point.
When you look at the comics, the rogues gallery is kind of created because the crowd vigilantes start up in the city, and they often act in response. And the idea that we’ll be able to do that with other characters, and that there might be other point of view shifts, where we can see how the origins of the characters come into being, based on what we’ve seen in the Batman And maybe characters that we haven’t met yet, and like this is absolutely stuff that we’re talking about, the opportunity to do that.
We do the Batman stories in the movies, the main point of view. To be able to then shift point of view and to tell the other stories with a kind of how the guardrails took off. What you can do at HBO is very exciting. And so we’re so grateful and very excited to have the opportunity and relationship with HBO, and we’ve been talking to them about doing more.
Dylan Clark confirmed that the Penguin will not be the same villain Batman faces in Part II
The Penguin is all about Oz Cobb’s evolving into the Kingpin of Gotham
How did you decide on the time frame for The penguin Being set one week after the flood and bringing it so close to after the events of The Batman?
Matt Reeves: The whole idea is that the story is about the moment that follows the movie. There is an opportunity where Carmine Falcone has had a stranglehold on power for the last 20 years in this place, and now he is dead. And so someone like Oz, who really believes he can get more, but no one else believes this is his moment to strike. And we kind of teased that at the end of the Batman when he stares out over the city. And we really wanted to pick things up at the moment.
The other parameters we gave Lauren were obviously this We know that we want Oz to be in the next movie, and we know the events of the movie, and so we just said that we need him to get the power to the point that we get him toAnd then there have to be the events that sort of give you the feeling that he’s going to enter the movie in this way.
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Dylan Clark: The other thing to flag here is that obviously Oz is known as the kingpin in the comic book space. From our movie, you don’t get a sense of how the character will become the kingpin. As Matt said, we are focused on Batman and Bruce’s point of view and developing him as fully as possible. We don’t have a lot of real estate to spend with Oz, so this series and this long-form site allows us to really dig into the details.
And Lauren, being a fan of the comics, loved the briefing too, which is, we want to take this guy who is clearly ambitious. He sees an opportunity. Carmine is dead. What should I do? Well, this series is what I’m going to do, and it’s going to bring us further down the road, so that when he comes back in movie two, he’s not the same character that Batman interacted with.
Reeves and Clark declined to give specifics about a possible legal drama with Two-Face
But such conversations happen in DC Universe circles
Gotham is in complete chaos after the flood, and there is no real law and order. You would think one priority for the city would be to appoint a new DA. Could we potentially see a familiar face (or two) pop up in the future of the world, maybe in a legal drama show context setting?
Matt Reeves: Oh, God. How can we possibly answer this question? Because that would give a lot away that we certainly can’t, but yeah, we’re not going to answer that question.
but yes There must be some new people who will come to replace the old. And, so that’s certainly a possibility, and, but I don’t think there’s any way we can give you that answer. You certainly think in the way that our conversations are going. Let’s put it this way.
Dylan Clark: We can compliment you and acknowledge your insight and awareness of the great characters that the new Batman canon has to explore. We feel the pressure of figuring out that too and how and who and when and what, and how it all might work out.
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