Colin Farrell reveals first details about Batman Spinoff on HBO Max

Gotham City is underwater and ready to take over the capital penguin. The limited-edition HBO Max series runs from the last minutes of director Matt Reeves BatmanWhich ends with Oswald “Oz” Coplebut (Colin Farrell) fighting the wreckage of an empire controlled by Gotham gangster Carmine Falcone (John Turturro). Although Detective Dark Knight (Robert Pattinson) thwarts Riddler’s (Paul Dano) murder spree – and eventually saves the mayor-elect with the help of Catwoman (Zoe Kravitz) – Batman can’t stop Riddler’s bombs from flooding the city and turning Gotham City into a land of forbidden.

“[The Penguin] It starts about a week after the movie Batman finish. So Gotham City is still somewhat underwater,” Farrell revealed additional In an interview about his new movie Inisherin from Inisherin. “I read the script for the first episode, and it opens with my feet splashing in the water in the Falcon office. And even then, I just read it, I was like, ‘Oh, my God.’ It’s beautiful. It’s well written.”

Lauren LeFrank (Hemlock GroveMarvel Shield Agents) writes and acts as a model on Batman An executive spin-off series produced by Farrell, Reeves, and Dylan Clark.

Farrell added that Frank “did an exceptional job.” “She writes everything and reviews, and she’s great, which is just a very exciting prospect.” About re-enacting his role in the series with a tentative title penguinFarrell said, “I love this character and was greedy for it. I felt like I didn’t have enough. I wanted to do it more and more, so now I had a chance.”

The DC drama spans Reeves’ emerging universe paddle-Reverse and focus on Farrell’s Oz, a mid-level gangster who served as a first lieutenant at Falcone until the crime boss’s assassination by Riddler.

The world that Matt Reeves created Batman is one that requires a deeper look through the eyes of Oswald Cobblepot,” Farrell said in a statement announcing HBO Max’s live arrangement for the series. Batman sequel series. “I couldn’t be more excited about continuing to explore Oz as he rises through the dark ranks to become the Penguin. It would be nice to bring him back to the streets of Gotham for a bit of craziness and mayhem.”

Reeves, who is also producing the untitled movie Arkham Asylum A series in development on HBO Max has likened Oz’s rise to power to Scarface.

“I said [to HBO Max]to be honest with you, the thing that would be the seed of what I thought the next story could be from a penguin perspective is that I saw there was some sort of “American Dream in Gotham” story, almost like Scarface; The rise of this character we all know will achieve legendary status.” EW. “He was underestimated and he’s like a time bomb… They were like, ‘Oh my God, we’re in!’ “And that was really exciting because, at that point, Colin had already given life to this character.”

penguin Filming is scheduled to begin in early 2023 and will be broadcast on HBO Max.

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