“The Penguin” trailer drops Colin Farrell in the middle of a gang war for power

Take a deep dive into the Gotham City post-"The Batman."

The Penguin news continues at Comic-Con 2024. Following the revelation that Minnie Driver will voice a female version of the DC supervillain in Batman: Caped Crusader, the Hall H panel for The Penguin revealed a new trailer for the upcoming live-action series.

Colin Farrell reprises his role as Oz Cobb from 2022's The Batman. The actor Zoomed in over video at the panel, while producers Matt Reeves and Dylan Clark, showrunner Lauren LeFranc, makeup designer Michael Marino, and actors Cristin Milioti and Rhenzy Feliz attended in person.

Gotham City is Oz's oyster now following the death of Carmine Falcone (John Turturro) in that film, and the series is set to explore his climb to the top of the Gotham City underworld. The action kicks off one week following the events of The Batman, which climaxed with Gotham getting flooded by Paul Dano's Riddler.

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Reeves told the Hall H crowd that the story of Oz's rise to power in Gotham was going to be the plot for The Batman Part II, the film now set to open in theaters in 2026. However, after HBO execs wanted to focus the spinoff series on a marquee character, they revamped that plan to make The Penguin.

"Carmine Falcon's dead! If we don't protect what's ours, we just look weak," Farrell's Oz says in the trailer. "The streets are talkin' again. They know there's only one man big enough to run this city."

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Or woman! Milioti arrives as Carmine's daughter, Sofia Falcone, who just got out from a stint in Arkham Asylum, where she definitely cracked some skulls of her fellow inmates. She promises she's rehabilitated, but something tells us the comic book villain known infamously as the Hangman has a longer road ahead to mental health recovery.

"As you see in that trailer, she’s not the same Sofia Falcone you may know from the comics," LeFranc said during the panel, while Milioti added, "I had the friggin’ time of my life."

In addition to Farrell, The Penguin also stars Feliz as Victor Aguilar, Michael Kelly as Johnny Viti, Shohreh Aghdashloo as Nadia Maroni, Deirdre O’Connell as Francis Cobb, Clancy Brown as Salvatore Maroni, Carmen Ejogo as Eve Karlo, and Theo Rossi as Dr. Julian Rush, among others.

The Penguin premieres Sep. 19 on HBO and Max.

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