Colin Farrell Has “Heard” Penguin Returns In ‘The Batman 2’: “I Haven’t Read It”
deadline.comAlthough 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.
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