Though The Penguin is wrapping up its first season, Colin Farrell may quickly be making a visit again to Gotham Metropolis.
After main the HBO sequence spin-off, which is garnering Emmy buzz forward of this weekend’s Season 1 finale, the Oscar nominee may be gearing as much as reprise the villainous function for the upcoming sequel to Matt Reeves‘ The Batman (2022).
“I do not know what the second movie is gonna be. I heard Penguin options in it. I haven’t learn it,” he stated on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Present with Julia Cunningham. “It’d be fascinating to see the place we choose up from. There’s been a lot pipe laid. It’d be fascinating to see the place it goes from right here, you recognize? However he can be fairly totally different.”
Farrell beforehand portrayed the Gotham baddie reverse Robert Pattinson‘s Darkish Knight in The Batman. Set one week after the film, The Penguin follows his eponymous Oswald ‘Oz’ Cobblepot amid his rise to energy within the metropolis’s legal underworld.
Reeves beforehand gave an replace on his plans to flip The Batman right into a trilogy, which is ready to proceed with filming on the sequel subsequent 12 months. “Sure, that’s nonetheless the plan. I imply, it’s sticking very carefully to the trail we envisioned,” he informed Collider in September.
Zoë Kravitz and Robert Pattinson in The Batman.
Warner Bros. 2023
“Issues type of shifted. So, once we got here up with the concept to do The Penguin, that was one thing the place I had all the time meant to proceed Penguin’s story, and needed to inform this story of his starting of rise to energy,” he defined. “As a result of we all know that he’s launched in The Batman as a type of mid-level, type of neglected, mocked determine, who’s not but in anybody’s eyes the kingpin we come to know him as within the lore.”
Reeves added. “And so, that was deliberate as a result of I needed — whereas it wasn’t Batman’s origin story, I needed the origin tales of those different characters, of the Rogues Gallery and that story was initially going to be the entrée into the subsequent film.”
