'The Penguin' Season 2? Filmmaker Reveals Promising Update
justjared.comThe Penguin just might be getting another season! The HBO series from DC Studios stars Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb (aka The Penguin), and is a continuation of the saga that filmmaker Matt Reeves began with the global blockbuster The Batman. Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, Clancy Brown, James Madio, Scott Cohen, Michael Zegen, Carmen Ejogo, and Theo Rossi all star.
Following the conclusion of the show’s first season, many viewers are curious if it will continue on for a second season. Keep reading to find out more… HBO has not currently renewed The Penguin for Season 2, but The Batman‘s director spoke to the story’s continuation in an interview in November. “I always said we’re going to continue [the Penguin’s] story,” Matt Reeves recently told Esquire. “Initially, the idea was to continue it in the next film (The Batman Part II).
And then when we were talking about doing shows, I was talking to [The Batman producer] Dylan Clark and [HBO heads] Casey Bloys and Sarah Aubrey,” he went on. “Casey said, ‘Look, I just want to say, I hope you’re not going to save the marquee characters for just the movies.
This is HBO.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, let me tell you what this kind of Scarface-esque story is.’ It isn’t his origin story. It’s sort of like Batman’s story—the way that I did it—because there’d been so many origin tales.
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