Why Everyone’s So Mad About The Penguin’s Real Name

HBO’s The Penguin, starring an unrecognizable Colin Farrell, is the first series thusfar spun off from Matt Reeves’s live-action smash hit The Batman.

Plans are still a little murky as to how Earth-Reeves fits in, or doesn’t, with James Gunn’s wholesale relaunch of the DCEU movieverse—beginning with Gunn’s Superman, slated to appear in 2025—but The Penguin seems to have much the same vibe as The Batman: grim, gritty and, as a producer recently put it, “grounded.”

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