This post contains spoilers for "The Batman."
While Matt Reeves' "The Batman" was pretty much a triumph on the whole, it's not hard to deny that Colin Firth's Penguin was a decisive highlight. The big wigs at Warner Bros. must have thought so too, as the character will soon be heading up his very own series on HBO Max. The spin-off will apparently take place just a week after the events of "The Batman," which ended with the death of mafia don Carmine Falcone. "The Penguin" will likely address the power vacuum that Falcone's death leaves behind in Gotham, and follow Oswald Cobblepot's rise through the ranks of Gotham's underworld in order to take that power for himself.
Farrell himself has cited the HBO prison drama "Oz" as a point of inspiration for "The Penguin." That series followed the shifting tides in a fictional men's prison — fittingly named the...
While Matt Reeves' "The Batman" was pretty much a triumph on the whole, it's not hard to deny that Colin Firth's Penguin was a decisive highlight. The big wigs at Warner Bros. must have thought so too, as the character will soon be heading up his very own series on HBO Max. The spin-off will apparently take place just a week after the events of "The Batman," which ended with the death of mafia don Carmine Falcone. "The Penguin" will likely address the power vacuum that Falcone's death leaves behind in Gotham, and follow Oswald Cobblepot's rise through the ranks of Gotham's underworld in order to take that power for himself.
Farrell himself has cited the HBO prison drama "Oz" as a point of inspiration for "The Penguin." That series followed the shifting tides in a fictional men's prison — fittingly named the...
- 10/31/2022
- by Lyvie Scott
- Slash Film
A familiar face is headed to HBO Max’s The Penguin.
Cristin Milioti has joined the limited-series offshoot of Matt Reeves’ The Batman as Sofia Falcone, daughter of crime boss Carmine Falcone, our sister site Variety reports.
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Carmine (played by John Turturro) appeared in Reeves’ March 2022 feature film as the mobster who employed The Penguin...
Cristin Milioti has joined the limited-series offshoot of Matt Reeves’ The Batman as Sofia Falcone, daughter of crime boss Carmine Falcone, our sister site Variety reports.
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Carmine (played by John Turturro) appeared in Reeves’ March 2022 feature film as the mobster who employed The Penguin...
- 10/31/2022
- by Keisha Hatchett
- TVLine.com
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