Colin Farrell’s gangster Oz Cobb (higher referred to as the Penguin) was one of many breakout characters of director Matt Reeves’ 2022 hit “The Batman.” Now the Penguin’s long-awaited solo miniseries, which was initially introduced two years in the past, lastly debuts its first trailer, forward of the sequence premiere set for this fall on Max.
Farrell disappeared into the position of the Penguin in “The Batman,” however the focus was clearly on Robert Pattinson’s title character, and the Penguin was solely certainly one of a number of villains and different acquainted figures from the Batman mythos. In “The Batman,” the Penguin labored for crime boss Carmine Falcone (John Turturro), primarily working Falcone’s membership the Iceberg Lounge, the place he labored with Selina Kyle (Zoë Kravitz), aka Catwoman. The Penguin has one notably memorable automobile chase scene in “The Batman,” however in any other case the highlight stays on different characters.
That didn’t stop Farrell from giving a memorable efficiency, utterly immersing himself in a task that renders him unrecognizable below numerous prosthetics, with an affected tough-guy Gotham Metropolis accent (which sounds a bit like a mixture of Chicago and New York). Now he will get to take middle stage in “The Penguin,” which takes place one week after the occasions of “The Batman” and appears like it’ll function the Penguin’s rise to energy, now that Falcone has been eradicated.
Within the new trailer, the Penguin delivers a monologue to an unseen recipient, telling the story of a neighborhood gangster from his youth, who was celebrated as a hero and even obtained a parade in his honor after he died. It sounds a bit like Ray Liotta’s opening narration in “GoodFellas,” and it wouldn’t be misplaced to listen to the Penguin say that way back to he can bear in mind, he all the time needed to be a gangster.
The Penguin’s monologue is intercut with scenes of violence, together with a memorable picture of co-star Cristin Milioti, as Falcone’s daughter Sofia, screaming in anguish. Different sequence regulars embody Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, Clancy Brown and Michael Zegen.
“The Penguin” is being billed as “the subsequent chapter within the Batman saga,” which implies that the sequence is prone to arrange different characters and storylines for future Batman content material, together with the film “The Batman – Half II,” at present set to be launched in theaters on Oct. 2, 2026. That’s a very long time to attend, however “The Penguin” ought to give Batman followers a lot to get pleasure from and speculate about till then.