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HBO Max's THE PENGUIN show starring Colin Farrell (TBD)
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Max‘s Warner Bros. Television and DC Studios drama series starring Colin Farrell as the titular character will air day-and-date with the pay-TV network in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy, in one of Sky’s biggest deals in recent months, which was struck at the LA Screenings.

 

Launching later this year on Max and created by Lauren LeFranc, The Penguin sees Farrell reprise his role as the Gotham City gangster from Matt Reeves‘ The Batman. Cast also includes Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, Clancy Brown, and Michael Zegen. The series will launch in the fall on Max, Sky Atlantic and Sky streamer Now.

 

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“The Penguin” is set one week after the events of Matt Reeves’ 2022 movie “The Batman,” but it would be too simplistic to call it a villain origin story. Instead, HBO’s limited series — created by Lauren LeFranc — revolves around the rise of Oz “the Penguin” Cobb (an unrecognizable Colin Farrell), whose fixation on power blossoms into something so grotesque it becomes uncontainable. A masterful examination of criminality, the show is twisted, disturbing and deeply enthralling.

 

LeFranc’s robust narrative picks up after the Riddler’s attack on Gotham in the film. With the most vulnerable and underprivileged neighborhoods in the city decimated, and Oz’s boss Carmine Falcone dead, Oz decides this is the perfect time to strike. Quickly piecing together a risky, poorly thought-out plan, he begins seizing control of the underworld while the Falcones scramble to restructure and maintain their decades-long hold on Gotham. Though sinister in his thinking and boasting a gift for gab, Oz fails to anticipate two things as he works feverishly to propel himself to the top. The first is an encounter with Victor Aguilar (Rhenzy Feliz), a teenager displaced by the floods, whom Oz initially intends to scare but instead takes under his wing. The second is the return of Sofia Falcone (a mesmerizing Cristin Milioti), whom Oz used to drive when he worked for Carmine. Sofia’s release from Arkham Asylum on the eve of her father’s murder isn’t something that even Oz could have prepared for.

 

Though “The Penguin” revolves around Oz’s compulsion to achieve power and status, it’s also about cycles of trauma. People like Oz and Sofia don’t sprout up out of nowhere; their environments foster them. Criminals must learn to adapt to survive those more volatile than them. But withstanding brutality forces transformations. After all, devils aren’t born; they are created.

 

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