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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

Why This is the Time For GOTHAM

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

Gotham is moving full speed ahead. Fox’s Batman prequel television series reveals the early days of Jim Gordon and the infamous villains of Gotham City. The origin series will include a young Bruce Wayne (around age 12) and classic rogues like Riddler, Penguin, Catwoman and even Joker was mentioned.

 

This will be first attempt at a television series set in the Batman universe since the WB’s Birds of Prey and it’s the right time here’s why: Continue reading Why This is the Time For GOTHAM