The Penguin Producers On The Batman 2 And Expanding Gotham City

The Penguin is set to release on Max very soon, and executive producers Matt Reeves and Dylan Clark recently shared their hopes for Gotham"s future, the evolution of Oswald "Oz" Cobb, and its connections with The Batman Part II. Set to begin streaming September 19th, The Penguin sees Colin Farrell returning to his dynamic role as Oz Cobb in the immediate aftermath of The Batman"s ending and the death of major Gotham crime boss Carmine Falcone. The series will also star How I Met Your Mother"s Cristin Milioti as Sofia, Falcone"s daughter who has ambitions of her own to rule Gotham.
Screen Rant recently attended an exciting roundtable discussion with other journalists, asking both Reeves and Clark about the upcoming Penguin series. Not only did the show"s executive producers voice their excitement for the new series and work with showrunner Lauren LeFranc, but they also spoke about its place and role in the greater Gotham narrative being told. Matt Reeves and Dylan Clark also provided some teases for the future beyond The Penguin and The Batman Part II and the talks that are already happening.
Matt Reeves Confirms The Penguin Is All About Oz Cobb's POV New POV Stories May Be Coming Soon To The Batman Universe Close Screen Rant: This version of Gotham is heavily populated by the city"s various crime families, and The Penguin makes that very clear. I"m curious, how much space is there for more of Batman"s rogues gallery? Do you see it as sprawling as the comics?

Matt Reeves: I mean, one of the things that we are excited to be doing, obviously, the movies are from Batman and Bruce"s point of view, and the only point of view breaks that we did in the first movie were Riddler"s, and only because it was in counterpoint to what"s going on. You were supposed to wonder, wait, is this Batman"s point of view or the Riddler"s point of view? But really, those stories are to tell the arc of Batman, Bruce"s story, and he"s the emotional center. Of course, the Rogues" gallery is going to be in those movies. That"s the point.
When you look at the comics, the Rogues Gallery are kind of created because this mass vigilante starts showing up in the city, and they often make themselves in reaction. And so the idea that we would be able to do that with other characters, and that there might be other point of view shifts, where we can see how those characters origins come into being, based on what we"ve seen in The Batman and maybe characters we haven"t met yet, and how that that"s absolutely stuff that we"re talking about, the opportunity to do that.
We"re doing the Batman stories in the movies, the main point of view. To be able to then shift point of view and to tell these other stories with kind of like the guardrails taken off. What you"re able to do at HBO is very exciting. And so we are so grateful and very excited to have this opportunity and relationship with HBO, and we have been talking to them about doing more.

Dylan Clark Confirms The Penguin Won't Be The Same Villain Batman Faces In Part II The Penguin Is All About Oz Cobb's Evolving Into The Kingpin of Gotham Custom Image by Nicolas Ayala How did you decide on the timeframe for The Penguin being set one week after the flood and bringing it so close to after the events of The Batman?

Matt Reeves: The whole idea is that this story is about that moment that follows the movie. There"s an opportunity where Carmine Falcone has had a stranglehold on power for the last 20 years in this place, and now he"s dead. And so someone like Oz, who really believes that he can get more, but no one else believes that this is his moment to strike. And we sort of teased that at the end of The Batman as he"s staring out over the city. And we really wanted to pick things up in that moment.
The other parameters that we gave to Lauren were that obviously we know that we want Oz to be in the next movie, and we know the events of that movie, and so we just said we need him to have this rise to power to the point that we get him to, and then there needs to be these events that sort of give you the sense that he"s going to be entering the movie in this way.

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