Batman spinoff The Penguin is pure crime drama in first trailer

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We whitethorn beryllium waiting a portion to spot Robert Pattinson instrumentality arsenic Batman, but the franchise isn’t going wholly quiet. Max conscionable released the archetypal teaser trailer for The Penguin, which sees Colin Farrell reprise the titular relation from the 2022 movie The Batman. As a teaser, the abbreviated clip doesn’t springiness overmuch away, but the vibes are clear: this is going to beryllium a transgression drama, lone acceptable successful Gotham.

Matt Reeves, who directed The Batman, volition service arsenic an enforcement producer, portion Lauren LeFranc (Agents of SHIELD) is showrunner. And portion we don’t cognize overmuch of the premise conscionable yet, the remainder of the formed includes Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, Clancy Brown, and Michael Zegen.

The eight-episode-long amusement doesn’t person a premiere date, but Max says it’ll commencement streaming this fall. And it comes astatine a clip of upheaval for DC’s movie and TV slate under caller brag James Gunn — which is expected to see a caller mentation of Batman not played by Pattinson successful a movie called The Brave and the Bold. “This is the instauration of the DCU Batman,” Gunn explained past year. “It’s a precise unusual father-and-son story.”