In The Batman spin-off series on HBO Max about The Penguin, Clancy Brown, who is best known to fans as the voice of Lex Luthor in the DC Animated Universe, will play crime boss Sal Maroni.
This week saw the start of production on the eight-episode DC Studios drama.
Earlier on-screen portrayers of Maroni include David Zayas in the Gotham television series and Eric Roberts in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.
Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, and Deirdre O’Connell are among the additional cast members of The Penguin.
Colin Farrell reprises his role as the evil Oswald “Oz” Cobblepot in the The Penguin, which takes place in the same universe as The Batman. Sofia Falcone, the daughter of Gotham City mobster Carmine Falcone, who was portrayed by John Turturro in The Batman, has recently joined the cast of the show. She is played by Cristin Milioti.
The Penguin‘s first two episodes will be directed by Craig Zobel (Mare Of Easttown), with Chuck and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s Lauren LeFranc serving as the project’s writer and showrunner. Together with The Batman director Matt Reeves and producer Dylan Clark, Colin Farrell serves as an executive producer on the show.
Reeves had stated that he was extremely passionate about what they were doing and he was very, very excited about the BatVerse… The way they were handling Penguin and how that ties back into how that will lead into the sequel, and what that sequel is going to be, actually form a whole little fabric of things they want to do.
The Batman is currently the fourth-highest-grossing movie of the year after collecting 770.8 million when it first came out in theaters last year. The script for the Warner Bros. project’s sequel is being written by Reeves and Mattson Tomlin at the moment.
