Oswald Cobblepot’s Rise To Power Begins In HBO’s The Penguin Official Trailer

It looks like Batman fans are returning to the gritty world of Matt Reeves’ 2022 smash hit, The Batman, in its upcoming spinoff series The Penguin. This official trailer highlights fan-favorite villain and scene-stealer Oswald Cobblepot (Colin Farrell) looking to carve a slice of the now rudderless Falcone crime family for the start of his new criminal enterprise. Falcone’s daughter, Sofia (Cristini Militoti) is looking to even the score.

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I am excited to watch this series because I am a Batman fan and enjoyed Reeves’ take on the Batman mythos. I thought it was one of the best superhero movies of 2022. It was more of a detective thriller since one of Batman’s nicknames is “The World’s Greatest Detective”. Well…in this iteration Bruce Wayne’s only two years in being Batman, so he’s still a rookie at this point.

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Another reason is that I am a sucker for midquels. It’s a bridging series or ‘interquel’ if you want to call it, between The Batman and the upcoming 2026 sequel, The Batman: Part II. So it will be cool to see how Penguin and Gotham City change after The Riddler’s (Paul Dano) terrorist attack. And if possible, will Robert Pattinson’s Batman make a cameo at some point in the show or toward the end? All of these questions I pose will probably be answered when the series streams on Max on September 19th. Here is the synopsis and official trailer:

Tear down the empire from the inside out.

Academy Award nominee Colin Farrell is #ThePenguin in the new ‪@HBO Original Limited Series, premiering September 19 on Max.