Batman absent from the intrigue of the penguin: “He has no Spidey-sense!”

Matt Reeves had already explained that the Dark Knight played by Robert Pattinson was “a figure too powerful.” The show’s showrunner, Lauren Lefranc, continues her reflection.

Broadcast this fall, the series The penguin takes place right after the intrigue of The Batmanof Matt Reevesand it will be linked to the history of its suite, expected on the big screen in October 2027.

In early October, the director of the Warner Bros. blockbusters. Detailed as follows:

“Batman is such a powerful character that if he had intervened, he could have disrupted the story in a way. The whole story would suddenly have turned to Batman. And we wanted it to be the moment of Oz (Colin Farrell) , the moment of Sofia (Cristin Milioti), the moment of Francis (Deirdre O’Connell), the moment of Vic (Rhenzy Feliz) … We wanted their story to be told and just see the story of his ascent. .. “

Lauren Lefranc, who runs the series, says more in the new issue ofEmpire ::

“What Matt repeated to me from the start is that Gotham is a big city and that Batman cannot be everywhere. He does not have a spider-sense! But it is not because we do not Let’s not see Batman in our show that he is not aware of what is happening or indifferent to crimes. movie.”

There too, it sticks to the words of Reeves, who declared in November to another British media:

“For Bruce Wayne, it will be very difficult to be Batman in the followinge. The events of The Penguin will have an impact … The series literally takes place a week after what happened in The Batman. It is a period of great agitation in the city, a large part of Gotham is desperate, so the police cannot be everywhere, there is crime on every street corner and it is a very, very dangerous period … ”

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