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HBO Max's THE PENGUIN show starring Colin Farrell (TBD)
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eastriver400

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On 9/20/2024 at 6:16 AM, Bosco685 said:

Outstanding pilot!!!!

:headbang:

I see why they compare it to The Sopranos. Such a concentrated focus on the people behind the crimes. If it leaned too much into Batman it would have distracted from that theme.

 

That was exactly Reeves's intent. From an NYT review a week ago:

 

"Though the character appeared in only a few scenes, Reeves said, “There was something electric about Colin. He just completely embodied a spirit that was so fresh and so powerful. You wanted to look at him under a microscope and understand, who is that guy?” 

"“When you look at a lot of Batman movies,” Reeves said, “after they do the origin film, then it’s like, oh yeah, then here’s the Joker movie or here’s the Two-Face movie. It’s almost as if those characters take center stage and then Batman begins to function in their story. What I wanted to do with these Batman movies was to keep Batman’s arc and his psychology and his evolution at the center.”

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/arts/television/the-penguin-batman-hbo.html#:~:text=“The Penguin” is an unapologetic,in decades' worth of Batman

 

 

 

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