By HBO’s “The Penguin” ends its run this coming weekend following a successful and critically well-regarded run on the cabler over the past few weeks.
The success has been strong enough that filmmaker and series producer Matt Reeves says they plan to adopt a similar character-centric approach to any further spin-off shows based on the property.
Speaking with Andy Serkis for Interview Magazine, Reeves was asked if he has plans for any further “The Batman” spin-offs to which he said “yeah, we have been talking”. He then said anything further they do will, like “The Penguin,” put a lens on certain characters:
“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 the 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.”
In the same interview, Reeves also says he had more creative freedom on “The Penguin” than he had on “The Batman” film due to the more adult rating:
“It’s interesting because in a Batman movie, there are resources that are tremendous, so we’re able to do quite grand things, but we are handcuffed in other ways. When we were dealing with the ratings board, they were like, ‘You got to pull that back and this back.’ But with HBO, those handcuffs were removed. It gave us the ability to be really character-forward. Even just the way that Oz can be so deliciously profane.”
Reeves’ spin-off plans have changed over the years – initially being a “Gotham PD” one which fell apart, while a planned “Arkham Asylum” also seemingly collapsed.
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