After wrapping up his role on HBO's 'The Penguin', the actor is slated to possibly return to the infamous streets of Gotham City for 'The Batman' much-anticipated sequel.
- November 9, 2024
AceShowbiz - Colin Farrell, who stars on the HBO spin-off series "The Penguin", has hinted at the possibility of reprising his role in the upcoming sequel to Matt Reeves' "The Batman" (2022). In an interview on SiriusXM's "The Jess Cagle Show" with Julia Cunningham, Farrell revealed that he has heard rumors of the Penguin's involvement in the film but has not yet read the script.
"I have no idea what the second film is gonna be. I heard Penguin features in it. I haven't read it," Farrell said. "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 has previously stated that he plans to turn "The Batman" into a trilogy, with filming on the sequel scheduled to begin next year. He also mentioned that the idea for "The Penguin" spin-off originated from his desire to explore the character's origin story and set up the events of the next movie.
"The story of his beginning of rise to power, 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 explained.
