HBO’s The Penguin solely exists as a result of The Batman was wildly profitable and audiences actually gravitated to Colin Farrell’s against-type rendition of Oswald Cobblepot, or Oz Cobb as he’s identified on this universe. So why isn’t Robert Pattinson’s caped crusader anyplace to be discovered within the present’s eight-episode tour of Gotham’s warring felony underground? He had larger fish to fry, suggests the director behind the upcoming The Batman Half II.
“This was a time of nice turmoil within the metropolis, it’s actually the week after what occurred,” Matt Reeves advised Digital Spy (through Gamesradar). “A lot of the town is in desperation, so police can’t get all over the place, there’s crime all over the place, it’s a really, very harmful time.”
The 2022 Batman film ends with a sequence of explosions demolishing Gotham’s seawall. Consequently, the downtown is flooded and the crime-ridden metropolis is thrust into much more chaos. “[Batman’s] on the market attempting to grapple with the aftermath of every thing that occurred, which to some extent he blames himself for,” Reeves added.
That’s a wise sufficient in-universe rationalization for why, all through all of The Penguin’s twists, turns, and felony empire scheming, Bruce Wayne by no means drops in on Cobb to attempt to rein issues in. Showrunner Lauren LeFranc beforehand recommended that excluding Batman helped preserve the concentrate on the “grit and muck and dirt” of Gotham’s metropolis streets and Penguin’s journey to claw his approach up by its ranks.
However that doesn’t imply a Pattinson cameo was by no means being thought-about. “Over the course of writing the season, we mentioned many instances whether or not or not there may be some cross-through that will really feel earned,” Reeves beforehand advised Leisure Weekly. “We tried just a few totally different concepts conceptually, nothing that was ever written in the end, however nothing appeared to fairly gel in a approach that felt earned.”
Because it stands, followers who completed The Penguin season 1 final Sunday should wait till The Batman Half II in 2026 to see Pattinson put the black cowl again on. After that, there’s all the time an opportunity he might seem in season 2 of The Penguin if the present finally ends up getting renewed.
