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The Penguin is an upcoming American television limited series created by Lauren LeFranc for the streaming service Max. Based on the DC Comics character Penguin, it is a spin-off from the film The Batman (2022) that explores the Penguin's rise to power in Gotham City's criminal underworld. The series is produced by 6th & Idaho, DC Studios, and Dylan Clark Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, with LeFranc serving as showrunner. Colin Farrell stars as the Penguin, reprising his role from The Batman, alongside Cristin Milioti. Development was underway by September 2021, with LeFranc attached as writer and Farrell soon set to reprise his role. HBO Max ordered the series shortly after the film's March 2022 release, and Craig Zobel joined to direct the first three episodes in October, with Helen Shaver also directing. Filming began in March 2023 in New York before it was suspended in June due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike. It resumed in late November and wrapped in February 2024. The Penguin is scheduled to be released on Max in late 2024 and will consist of eight episodes. Premise Taking place one week following the events of The Batman (2022), the series explores the rise to power of Oswald "Oz" Cobblepot / Penguin in Gotham City's criminal underworld. Cast and characters Main Colin Farrell as Oswald "Oz" Cobblepot / Penguin:A disfigured crime lord and the former chief lieutenant of the late crime boss Carmine Falcone who is on the rise to becoming a criminal kingpin in his own right. Farrell said the series would further explore the character's "awkwardness, and his strength, and his villainy" as well as the "heartbroken man inside there" beyond his introduction in The Batman (2022). Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone: Carmine's daughter who fights Cobblepot for control of Gotham City's criminal underworld after her father's death Recurring Clancy Brown as Salvatore Maroni: A mob boss and gangster in Gotham City whose operation ended in Gotham's historic drug bust, in which Carmine was the informant Michael Zegen as Alberto Falcone: Carmine's son and Sofia's brother Michael Kelly as Johnny Vitti: The underboss of the Falcone crime family Actors cast in undisclosed roles include Rhenzy Feliz as a lead character, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O'Connell, James Madio, Scott Cohen, Theo Rossi, Carmen Ejogo, François Chau, David H. Holmes, Craig Walker, and Jared Abrahamson. Episodes The series will consist of eight episodes, which were written by Lauren LeFranc. Helen Shaver also serves as a director. Production Development By September 2021, HBO Max was in early development on a spin-off series from the film The Batman (2022) focusing on the character Oswald "Oz" Cobblepot / Penguin. The Batman director Matt Reeves had suggested to studio executives that a sequel film could explore the Penguin further, but they wanted to use the idea for a spin-off series instead. Lauren LeFranc was hired to write the series, while Reeves and The Batman producer Dylan Clark were set as executive producers through their respective production companies 6th & Idaho and Dylan Clark Productions. They had previously begun development on another spin-off series focused on the Gotham City Police Department, but by early March 2022 that series had been put on hold in favor of spin-offs focused on existing comic book characters; of these, the Penguin series was the furthest along in development at that time. Reeves was unsure then whether he would be directing the series, which he said would come before a sequel to The Batman and could tie-into that potential second film. Soon after, following The Batman's release, the limited series received a straight-to-series order from HBO Max using the working title The Penguin, with LeFranc confirmed to serve as showrunner and executive producer. 6th & Idaho's Daniel Pipski and Adam Kassan were also set as executive producers, along with Rafi Crohn as a co-executive producer. Star Colin Farrell said in July 2022 that Reeves would not be directing the series but was providing guidance on the structure of the scripts and was involved in choosing who would direct them. In October, Craig Zobel was hired to direct the first three episodes of the series and to serve as an executive producer. It was unclear then if Reeves' future DC projects for a planned The Batman shared universe would be placed under the control of James Gunn and Peter Safran, heads of the then-recently announced DC Studios that was set to lead DC's film and television projects, or under the supervision of Warner Bros. Pictures co-chairmen Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy. Gunn confirmed soon after that DC Studios would oversee all DC productions, and had contacted Reeves about his projects by then. When announcing the first projects for the new DC franchise the DC Universe (DCU) in January 2023, Gunn said any project that did not fit into the DCU's shared universe would be labeled as "DC Elseworlds" moving forward. This is the same as how DC Comics uses the Elseworlds imprint to mark comic books that are separate from the main continuity. Reeves' Batman shared universe was set to be a part of this label, including The Penguin. Bill Carraro was set as an executive producer by the following month. The series consists of eight episodes, totaling approximately six-to-eight hours of content. Farrell felt this length would allow time to explore Oz's origin story and could be "endlessly fun and fascinating and brutal" with an intended R-rated interpretation; the series was set to receive a TV-MA rating. The Penguin was confirmed as the title in April 2023 when it was revealed to be releasing on the streaming service Max, the successor to HBO Max. In January 2024, Helen Shaver was revealed to also be serving as a director. Writing The series begins one week after the events of The Batman, following the flooding of Gotham City as depicted at the end of the film, which Farrell said made for a "very tricky, very dark story". The series occurs shortly before the events of the film's sequel The Batman – Part II (2026), establishing a "little fabric" of plans that would lead into the sequel. Farrell said the death of crime boss Carmine Falcone in The Batman had left a power vacuum within Gotham's criminal underworld, resulting in many different forces vying for power. He added the series would be "incredibly violent" and that Oz would face "extraordinary obstacles". Clark said it would show Oz's rise to power and compared the series to Scarface (1983). He added that the series was intended to be a standalone story from The Batman, and would enhance the experience of watching the film. Reeves cited The Long Good Friday (1980) as an additional influence, and said the series was about the American Dream, with Oz being "underestimated... nobody thinks he's capable of doing anything [but he] believes in himself with a visceral violence". LeFranc had written the pi.... Discover the Carmen Falcone popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Carmen Falcone books.