The high-quality spin-off series of “The Batman” takes us to the streets of Gotham City.
On September 20th, the eagerly awaited, gloomy Superhero series “The Penguin” with superstar Colin Farrell (48) in the main role. The DC show is set in the Batman city of Gotham City. The action begins a week after the events of the acclaimed film “The Batman” from 2022 with Robert Pattinson (38) in the role of the Dark Knight. But the spin-off series is all about the infamous Batman villain Oz Cobbalso known as the penguin. Viewers experience his rise in the criminal underworld of Gotham City.
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That's what “The Penguin” is about
Gangster boss Carmine Falcone is dead. As a result, a gangster of Gotham City emerges Power vacuum. Falcone's son Alberto (Michael Zegen, 45) is his father's designated successor and heir, but Alberto's sister Sofia (“Black Mirror” star Cristin Milioti, 39), who has just been imprisoned in the notorious Arkham Asylum for ten years, also reports ambitions on the leadership of the Falcone mafia family.
Meanwhile, on the streets of Gotham City, Falcone's previous helper, gangster Oz Cobb (Farrell), is also reaching out Power over the underworld the city. Oz initially finds an ally in teenager Victor (Rhenzy Feliz, 26). The penguin then begins to unscrupulously play Gotham City's various mafia families and criminals against each other, with the aim of becoming the boss of the bosses himself.
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Colin Farrell melts into his role
Superstar Farrell spent time at the beginning of filming for his portrayal of the penguin, which already caused a sensation in Matt Reeves' (58) “The Batman”. three hours a day in the mask. The Irish actor had extensive make-up prosthetics applied to his face and neck, behind which Farrell's familiar face disappeared, but despite all the alienation, it did not affect his facial expressions.
Rarely does an actor thrive in a role like the Hollywood star in “The Penguin.” In addition, the main character of the mini-series gives viewers the impression that he is having a lot of fun making such complex, explosive gangster figure to embody.
There is one at Farrell's side veritable star ensemble. In addition to the American Cristin Milioti, who was seen in “USS Callister”, one of the best “Black Mirror” episodes ever, there was also the famous character actor Michael Kelly (55), known from “House of Cards”, and the screen -Icon Clancy Brown (“Starship Troopers”, 65) in front of the camera for “The Penguin” – among others.
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Is “The Penguin” worth it?
The new HBO series “The Penguin” is one of recent DC productions that – like “Joker” and the sequel “Joker: Folie à Deux” – operate under the “DC Elseworlds” label. That means they are separated from the big oneinterconnected DC Universewhich filmmaker James Gunn (58) is currently working on.
All of these successful “Elseworlds” productions put the famous Batman city of Gotham City at the center. Gotham in “The Penguin” is a bad place where a human life counts for little and the differences between rich and poor are strikingly large.
This juggernaut spawns creatures like the Penguin, a seasoned street gangster who now aims to ascend to the upper echelons of Gotham's underworld. Colin Farrell and showrunner Lauren LeFranc have their penguin with them less cartoonish as Danny DeVito's (79) version in Tim Burton's (66) timeless classic “Batman Returns”.
Farrell's Oz Cobb is more reminiscent classic New York gangsterswhich could have come directly from an iconic mafia or New York film by director legends Martin Scorsese (“GoodFellas”, “Taxi Driver”, 81) or Francis Ford Coppola (“The Godfather”, 85). As with the mafiosi and big boys in these classic films, viewers of “The Penguin” will also be equally impressed repelled and fascinated by Oz Cobb.