‘The Penguin’: Everything We Know About Colin Farrell’s Return As The Batman Villain In New Series

• The Penguin is an upcoming HBO Max bid acceptable aft the events of the 2022 movie The Batman.
• Colin Farrell is reprising his relation arsenic the Penguin.
• The Penguin started filming successful March 2023.

You haven’t seen the past of the Penguin successful Gotham City. Colin Farrell is reprising his relation arsenic Oswald “Oz” Cobblepot for the upcoming HBO Max miniseries that is simply a spinoff to 2022’s The Batman starring Robert Pattinson arsenic the caped crusader. The Penguin has already begun filming, and Colin, 46, looks unrecognizable successful the photos taken connected the set. Since The Batman was a monolithic deed for DC fans, there’s a batch of anticipation for the standalone amusement astir 1 of Bruce Wayne’s astir iconic villains.

In The Batman, the Penguin is introduced arsenic the right-hand antheral to Gotham transgression lord Carmine Falcone (John Torturro). The HBO Max series is expected to instrumentality spot aft the movie and screen Penguin’s emergence to powerfulness successful Gotham. Here’s everything we cognize truthful acold about The Penguin, including the merchandise date, the cast, and more.

Colin Farrell connected the acceptable of ‘The Penguin’ (Photo: BrosNYC / BACKGRID)

The Penguin Release Date

HBO has not announced the merchandise day for The Penguin. Filming began connected March 1, 2023, successful New York City, and is expected to past until the summer. So, that means we tin astir apt expect the amusement to debut sometime successful 2024. It’ll decidedly travel retired before The Batman — Part II, the sequel to Matt Reeves‘s movie, which has a theatrical merchandise day acceptable for October 3, 2025.

The Penguin Cast

Colin Farrell successful ‘The Batman’ (Photo: Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection)

Of course, Colin Farrell is returning arsenic the titular villain in The Penguin. The histrion underwent a major transformation for the relation in The Batman, donning a abdominous suit and prosthetics. He’s doing the aforesaid for the HBO Max show, with the assistance of makeup artists Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine who helium praised successful an EXCLUSIVE interview with HollywoodLife. “I conscionable beryllium successful the seat and fto Mike Marino enactment his genius,” Colin said of “becoming” the Penguin at the National Board of Review Awards successful NYC successful January. “That was it!” helium added.

Colin volition prima other Cristin Milioti, who is playing Sofia Falcone, Carmine Falcone’s daughter. According to Deadline, Sofia “is warring with The Penguin for control” of Gotham successful the show. Sofia was antecedently portrayed by Crystal Reed successful the Gotham TV series.

Cristin Milioti is playing Sofia Falcone successful ‘The Penguin’ (Photo: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)

Clancy Brown volition play Salvatore Maroni, a Gotham City mob boss. Salvatore is an force of Batman’s. The quality was played by Dennis Paladino successful Batman Forever, Eric Roberts successful The Dark Knight, and David Zayas in Gotham. Rounding out The Penguin cast is Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, and Deidre O’Connell, who person each been formed successful undisclosed roles.

The Penguin Plot Details

The Penguin is evidently going to beryllium each astir Oswald Cobblepot, but beyond that, precise small details astir the amusement person been released. Colin antecedently confirmed that the amusement is going to instrumentality spot astir 1 week aft the events of The Batman, which ended with Riddler (Paul Dano) flooding Gotham City.

Colin Farrell successful ‘The Batman’ (Photo: Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection)

“It starts astir a week aft ‘The Batman’ ends,” Colin told Extra. “So, Gotham is still, somewhat, underwater. I work the archetypal publication of the archetypal occurrence and it opens up connected my feet splashing done the h2o successful Falcone’s office. Even that alone, erstwhile I work it, I was like, ‘Oh, Jesus!’ ” Colin besides said astir the show, “It’s lovely. It’s truthful well-written. Lauren LeFranc has done specified an bonzer job, and she’s penning the full happening and show-running. She is formidable. It’s conscionable an breathtaking prospect. I emotion that character. I was greedy with it. I felt similar I didn’t person enough. I wanted to bash it much and much and more.”

In an interview with Collider, Colin said the publication for the archetypal occurrence was “so tasty and truthful unusual.” Colin besides revealed that The Penguin is going to beryllium astir “six oregon 8 hours” long. HollywoodLife volition proceed to stock updates on The Penguin right here!

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