Tag: Ben McKenzie

GOTHAM Feature With BEN MCKENZIE, DONAL LOGUE

 

Ben McKenzie as Jim Gordon in GOTHAM courtesy Warner Brothers Entertainment
Ben McKenzie as Jim Gordon in GOTHAM courtesy Warner Brothers Entertainment

Fox revealed the first featurette for the upcoming series Gotham.

 

Along with plans to reveal the early years of Catwoman, Penguin, Poison Ivy, Riddler – Executive Producer Bruno Heller teased the series will explore the back story of the Joker and Scarecrow.

 

Ben McKenzie will play James Gordon. Heller says when the series begins Gordon will have only been on the Gotham City Police for two weeks. The video includes interview with McKenzie, Donal Logue who played Detective Harvey Bullock, producer Danny Cannon and Jada Pinkett Smith who plays a villain created just for the series.

 

Along with Gordon’s partnership with Bullock, the series will focus on the rookie cop’s bond with a young Bruce Wayne.

 

Watch and see how the team will make Gotham and it’s legendary characters come to life: Continue reading GOTHAM Feature With BEN MCKENZIE, DONAL LOGUE

BEN MCKENZIE As Jim Gordon in GOTHAM First Look

Ben McKenzie as Jim Gordon in GOTHAM courtesy Warner Brothers Entertainment
Ben McKenzie as Jim Gordon in GOTHAM courtesy Warner Brothers Entertainment

How a rookie detective became Gotham City’s top cop and ally of Batman – that’s the premise of a new Fox series Gotham.

 

Warner Brothers and DC Comics shared a first look at Ben McKenzie as James Gordon. The actor shared it via Twitter.

 

McKenzie co-stars with Donal Logue as his partner/mentor Harvey Bullock on the Gotham City Police Force. Continue reading BEN MCKENZIE As Jim Gordon in GOTHAM First Look

GOTHAM Casts Penguin, Alfred and More

Detective Comics #25 courtesy DC Comics
Detective Comics #25 courtesy DC Comics

Four actors have joined the Batman-themed series Gotham according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ben McKenzie will play a young police officer James Gordon in the Fox series.

 

Robin Lord Taylor will play a young Oswald Cobblepot, who grows up to become Batman arch-villain known as the Penguin, described as “having the brains of a chess grandmaster and the morals of a jackal who is a low-level psychopath for gangster Fish Mooney who hides his sadistic lust for power behind an exquisitely polite demeanor.” Continue reading GOTHAM Casts Penguin, Alfred and More

Batman-Themed GOTHAM Casts Jim Gordon

Detective Comics #25 courtesy DC Comics
Detective Comics #25 courtesy DC Comics

Ben McKenzie (Southland, The O.C.) has been cast as young James Gordon in Fox’s Gotham Deadline reports. The television series will about  the origin of the early days of rookie police detective Jim Gordon and the villains of Gotham City.

 

McKenzie was the voice of Bruce Wayne/Batman in the animated movie version of Batman: Year One.

 

Earlier this year Fox President Kevin Reilly confirmed a young Bruce Wayne will be part of the story along with classic Batman rogues Riddler, Penguin and Catwoman according Deadline. Continue reading Batman-Themed GOTHAM Casts Jim Gordon