Colin Farrell’s Penguin Returns in ‘The Batman’ Spinoff Trailer

The Penguin is ready to take the big seat. Colin Farrell is back as The Penguin in the new trailer for his Max series, which spins out of the world of the 2022 DC film The Batman.

In the events of the film, The Penguin served as a lieutenant to crime boss Carmine Falcone, who meets an untimely end. Now, The Penguin is stepping up to lead crime in Gotham City in a series that looks like DC’s answer to The Sopranos.

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The series hails from DC Studios, the Warner Bros. division run by James Gunn and Peter Safran, who are plotting out their own shared universe of movies and TV shows. Both The Batman and The Penguin are considered separate from those plans, and take place in their own universe under the Elseworlds banner — a nod to alternate universe stories in the DC Comics.

The cast includes Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, Clancy Brown and Michael Zegen. Executive producers include The Batman filmmaker Matt Reeves, Dylan Clark, Farrell, showrunner Lauren LeFranc, director Craig Zobel and Bill Carraro.

The series is slated to launch this fall, and will help tide over audiences awaiting more from Reeves’ The Batman world. Last week, news hit that The Batman Part II, once again starring Robert Pattinson, had been delayed a year and will now bow in October 2026.

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