‘Penguin’ spin-off story begins a week after ‘Batman’

The Penguin series will be a six or eight hour story.

Irish comedian Colin Farrell, interpreter of Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, better known as The Penguin, in The Batman, recently announced that the spin-off series would begin a week after the events of the feature film directed by Matt Reeves:

Gotham is somehow still underwater. I read the first script for the first episode and it starts with my feet splashing in the water in Carmine Falcone’s office. This alone, when I read it, I said to myself: “Oh, my God!”. It’s charming. It’s so well written. Lauren LeFranc has done an amazing job writing and directing the entire Penguin series. She is gorgeous. This is an exciting prospect. I love this character. I got greedy with it. I felt like I didn’t have enough. I wanted to do it over and over and over.

He adds:

I read the first episode which was so delicious and so different how the character was on the page and what Matt Reeves imagined when he thought about the evolution of Oz. So yes, it will last, I think, six or eight hours. I have to read the second and third episodes next week.

Penguin in 2023 on HBO Max

Filming for Penguin is slated for early 2023. Colin Farrell is serving as an executive producer on the Penguin’s rise to power in Gotham’s underworld. Matt Reeves and Dylan Clark, producer of The Batman, will executive produce Penguin under their respective banners 6th & Idaho Productions and Dylan Clark Productions. Warner Bros Television also joined the project. Penguin is the second spin-off of the Batman series. The first, set in the Gotham City Police Department, is showrunner Joe Barton.