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Colin Farrell returns to Gotham City as Oz Cobb, aka Oswald Cobblepot, in the trailer for “The Penguin,” a spin-off series of “The Batman” coming this fall to Max.
“The Penguin” takes place immediately after the events of the 2022 DC blockbuster, and tracks Cobblepot’s rise to power in Gotham’s underworld as he becomes one of the most prominent villains in the “Batman” universe. Farrell delivers a classic gangster monologue throughout the trailer, slowly escalating the violence and shootouts in Gotham City’s seedy underground.
“When I was a kid, there was a gangster, a very old-school guy. Rex Calabrese. He was a big problem. He helped people. “He would see you on the street and he would call you,” Cobblepot narrates in the trailer. “When he was 14 or something, he has a heart attack and dies, still holding a cigarette. In my neighborhood they have a parade in his honor. A damn parade. It wasn’t fancy, but it was a gesture, a show of love, of what he wanted to say. Can you imagine being remembered like this?
Farrell’s transformative performance as the iconic villain in “The Batman” earned him much critical praise, and the prosthetics made the actor unrecognizable. In previous “Batman” movies and shows, Burgess Meredith, Danny DeVito and Robin Lord Taylor played the Penguin.
Joining Farrell are Cristin Milioti as Sofia, Carmine Falcone’s daughter, Michael Zegen as Alberto, Carmine’s son, and Clancy Brown as Salvatore Maroni, one of Gotham’s former top gangsters. The rest of the cast is made up of Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, Carmen Ejogo, François Chau and David H. Holmes.
The executive producer and showrunner of the series is Lauren LeFranc, known for “Agents of SHIELD.” Matt Reeves, writer and director of “The Batman,” will executive produce through his production company 6th & Idaho. Executive producer Craig Zobel (“Mare of Easttown”) will direct the first three episodes. Farrell, Dylan Clark, Daniel Pipski and Bill Carraro also serve as executive producers, with Ravi Crohn serving as co-executive producer. The series will consist of eight episodes. Production began in March 2023, but was halted in June due to writer and actor strikes, and filming resumed the week after Thanksgiving.
A sequel to “The Batman,” titled “The Batman: Part II,” was delayed a year and will now be released in theaters on October 2, 2026.
Watch the full trailer below.
