Although The Penguin is wrapping up its first season, Colin Farrell might soon be making a trip back to Gotham City.
After leading the HBO series spin-off, which is garnering Emmy buzz ahead of this weekend’s Season 1 finale, the Oscar nominee might be gearing up to reprise the villainous role for the upcoming sequel to Matt Reeves‘ The Batman (2022).
“I have no idea what the second film is gonna be. I heard Penguin features in it. I haven’t read it,” he said on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show with Julia Cunningham. “It’d be interesting to see where we pick up from. There’s been so much pipe laid. It’d be interesting to see where it goes from here, you know? But he would be quite different.”
Farrell previously portrayed the Gotham baddie opposite Robert Pattinson‘s Dark Knight in The Batman. Set one week after the movie, The Penguin follows his eponymous Oswald ‘Oz’ Cobblepot amid his rise to power in the city’s criminal underworld.
Reeves previously gave an update on his plans to turn The Batman into a trilogy, which is set to continue with filming on the sequel next year. “Yes, that is still the plan. I mean, it’s sticking very closely to the path we envisioned,” he told Collider in September.
Zoë Kravitz and Robert Pattinson in The Batman.
Warner Bros. 2023
“Things kind of shifted. So, when we came up with the idea to do The Penguin, that was something where I had always intended to continue Penguin’s story, and wanted to tell this story of his beginning of rise to power,” he explained. “Because we know that he’s introduced in The Batman as a kind of mid-level, sort of overlooked, mocked figure, who’s not yet in anyone’s eyes the kingpin we come to know him as in the lore.”
Reeves added. “And so, that was deliberate because I wanted — whereas it wasn’t Batman’s origin story, I wanted the origin stories of these other characters, of the Rogues Gallery and that story was originally going to be the entrée into the next movie.”