The Penguin Could Lead to More Batman Villain Shows

We each hoped that HBO’s The Penguin would beryllium good but did anyone really expect it to beryllium this good? The radical down the scenes did and now, with the amusement enjoying success, it could mean conscionable the opening for Batman’s atrocious guys appearing connected HBO.

“I tin archer you this, we would emotion to beryllium capable to bash more. But I tin besides accidental that we are already talking to HBO astir [more],” enforcement shaper Matt Reeves told the Wrap. “The accidental of being capable to past connected HBO, spell and research characters that wouldn’t beryllium capable to person that benignant of existent property creatively, arsenic we were capable to bash with Oz [Cobb, Colin Farrell’s character], that is thing that we are talking to HBO about. They’re precise excited astir that idea. That’s thing that we really, truly anticipation we’re going to beryllium capable to do.”

“We’ve got The Batman. We’ve got The Penguin. And who knows what’s next,” Reeves added.

What’s really adjacent is The Batman Part II which Reeves is prepping for a 2025 sprout and 2026 release. That movie volition proceed the communicative of The Penguin overmuch similar The Penguin continued the communicative of The Batman and Reeves admits making definite it each acceptable was difficult.

“It’s this happening wherever you’re trying to signifier it successful specified a mode that the movie hands disconnected to the show,” Reeves said. “We alteration point-of-view. We bash thing we can’t person immoderate country truly to bash astatine this level successful the movies, spell connected a long-form, deep-dive into Oz’s character, but past manus backmost disconnected to the adjacent movie and person him participate that story. There was a small spot of aerial postulation power to negociate that, but each of it was to make the abstraction past that would let america to excavation profoundly into that quality successful the mode that [showrunner] Lauren [LeFranc] did.”

All of which is to say, if a 2nd Bat-villain amusement would happen, it seems similar it would hap aft The Batman Part II. That presumption makes speculation much hard because, though we cognize for definite Penguin is successful the film, and we presume Riddler (Paul Dano), Catwoman (Zoe Kravitz), and Joker (Barry Keoghan) are successful it too, Reeves is definite to present caller villains arsenic well. And Batman surely has plentifulness of those to spell around.

You person to imagine, though, if HBO is funny successful exploring different Batman villain successful agelong form, it would person to beryllium 1 with sanction recognition. Since Penguin has his amusement and Riddler and Catwoman were explored successful the archetypal movie, who other is left? The institution wouldn’t situation bash a Joker amusement aft what conscionable happened with Joker: Folie à Deux would it? Is determination anyone other large enough?

Speculate beneath and drawback up connected The Penguin, currently streaming connected Max.

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