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After the events of Batman (2022), Oz Cobb, aka
the Penguin, a game to take over the reins of the crime world in Gotham.. Apart from the bat signal in the last frame of the season finale, we never got our Robert Pattinson in a cameo role in "The Penguin" In this short video IMDb tries to answer: Where the hell was Batman?.
The DC Studios logo is set in a rainy Gotham alley
Colin Farrell fought hard to make his version of the Penguin smoke tobacco in Batman (2022), but failed. However, for his own series, the character is portrayed as an occasional smoker, preferring cigars.
The umbrella falls and the logo changes to the Warner Bros
logo. Featured on The Graham Norton Show: Lady Gaga/Demi Moore/Colin Farrell/Richard Ayoade/Jack Savoretti (2024).
It also captures the film’s aesthetic and dark tone nicely, although the series has many more moments of slyness
The first episode is a direct sequel to Matt Reeves' Batman and I imagine those who haven’t seen the latter will be a bit lost. But I watched Batman a while ago, and this series did a great job of quickly reacquainting me with where the movie left off without getting bogged down in a didactic recap.
But so far it’s off to a great start
frivolity than was the case in the film, Colin Farrell brilliantly portrays the Penguin as a stereotypical mob “streetfighter.” " rough, profane, tough, and quick to violence; but also smart, cunning, and able to read people. The character may have absolutely nothing to do with with the comic book version, but it’s interesting in its own right, I doubt the show will give it a teenage sidekick; and I don’t know if Penguin’s scheming will be enough to sustain a full season.
