According to ComicBook, HBO’s The Penguin will soon conclude its first season, with the final episode airing on Sunday, November 10, and many fans are wondering if there will be more of the series. While speaking with Interview Magazine, The Batman director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) spoke about the future of the series as well as possible shows revolving around The Batman franchise.
“Yeah. We have been talking, and it’s exciting because people are now embracing the show. My fantasy is coming into being, which is very exciting, and HBO has been incredibly supportive from the beginning,” Reeves said. “Now to see that the show is being embraced is really, really exciting. We have been talking about doing other shows. I wanted to make sure that we didn’t do the origin tale, which so many of the other series have done. I think the idea of being able to put a lens on these characters is a really exciting idea. It’s about cities and their dysfunction and the world and its dysfunction, which is what Batman stories are all about. They’re all about Gotham being a place that should be better. And you can have that experience of this almost novelistic epic crime saga, but you also just get these separate experiences. They have their own dramatic value. So, Oz’s story is Oz’s story, and the idea is to do these other stories in the same way.”
As per ComicBook, The Penguin has done well as a limited series, and the possibility of it being green-lighted for a second season has been talked about for some time now. Earlier this year, series star Colin Farrell (In Burges) said he wasn’t sure about doing a second season because playing the character takes a heavy toll on him.
“I don’t know, man,” Farrell told Total Film earlier this year. “Don’t get me wrong — I loved it — but it got in on me a little bit. By the end of it, I was bitching and moaning to anyone who would listen to me that I f-ing wanted it to be finished. I tried to remind them that I had ‘grumpy gratitude.’”
When talking about the physical toll it took on him to prepare for the character, he said, “maybe in a year I would. But when I finished, I was like, ‘I never want to put that f-ing suit and that f-ing head on again.”
The Penguin is available to stream on Max.