Colin Farrell‘s wish of having a The Penguin spin-off has been granted. It has been confirmed that there will be a HBO Max spin-off of the supervillain who makes an appearance in The Batman as Oswald ‘Oz’ Cobblepot, a night club owner. Colin revealed that it were the detailed prosthetics that made him unrecognizable that wanted him to do a spin-off. The production will begin this February, 2023.

Talking to Variety, Colin said: “The only thing I had an idea was that I wasn’t nearly getting to explore the character as much as I wanted to. Because there was all this extraordinary work done by [makeup and prosthetics artists] Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine and his team, and I just thought it was the tip of the iceberg, pardon the pun, that we were getting to do the six or seven scenes that we did in the film. I was grateful for them, but I wanted more.”

The Penguin spin-off will also star Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone, the daughter of John Turturro’s mafia boss Carmine Falcone. It will be executive produced by The Batman producer Dylan Clark along with Director Matt Reeves and actor Colin Farrell himself. Antonio Campos will serve as writer and showrunner on the series. The production is said to take five to six months to complete.

The Penguin spin-off will focus on Oswald’s rise to power, and will also be seen as a backstory to the character which was played in The Batman starring Robert Pattinson as the dark knight.

Colin, while talking about The Penguin character with Variety said: “We have to get into what made him the man he is. And also, it will pick up where this film finished off, I think. I think it’ll pick up a little short time after the last frame of this film. We’ll get to go on a little kind of left turn off to the world of Oz and how he’s beginning to kind of dream of filling a potential power vacuum that may exist. It’s a lovely, lovely character, and explores vulnerabilities. His violence is apparent, his propensity for violence and his ability to use it as a tool is apparent, but [also] to see we all have soft spots. Every single person. And to be able to find that location, dig around it would be fun.”

The Penguin HBO Max spin-off series is planned to release in 2023, but the exact release date is yet to be revealed.

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