Giri/Haji creator Joe Barton is heading to Gotham to take over showrunning duties on HBO Max’s upcoming The Batman TV series.The British writer has joined the series as showrunner and exec producer following the departure of Terence Winter in November.It was understood that the Boardwalk Empire creator left the series, which is a companion to Matt Reeves Batman feature film, over creative differences.Barton is best known for creating Tokyo and London-set crime drama Giri/Haji for Netflix and the BBC.
He also wrote on AMC and Channel 4 sci-fi drama Humans and Netflix and BBC epic drama Troy: Fall of a City. Other projects include Sky thriller Extinction and an adaptation of Sally Green’s Half Bad with Andy Serkis for Netflix.HBO Max gave a
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