'It's Deeper, Scarier, the Stakes Are Bigger' — The Penguin Actor Colin Farell Has Read The Batman 2 Script 'From Start to Finish'

Colin Farrell has talked concisely astir his relation arsenic the Penguin successful The Batman 2, which helium has described arsenic “deeper” and “scarier” than the first.

In a treatment astatine the Zurich Film Festival, attended by The Hollywood Reporter, Farrell confirmed helium volition instrumentality arsenic the Penguin for Matt Reeves’ The Batman 2, though helium has an adjacent smaller relation this clip around.

Farrell caught the oculus arsenic the Penguin successful 2022’s The Batman, which starred Robert Pattinson arsenic the Caped Crusader. While Farrell lone had a fistful of scenes, galore of them were memorable, specified arsenic the film’s much-loved car chase.

He went connected to reprise the relation for deed HBO amusement The Penguin, and volition present play the Penguin again successful The Batman 2, owed retired October 1, 2027. Farrell kept his cards adjacent to his chest, arsenic you’d expect, but did accidental the sequel was “deeper” and “scarier,” with bigger stakes.

“I’ve got an adjacent smaller relation successful this one. But I’m OK with that,” helium said. “I’ve work the script, from commencement to finish, and I can’t accidental overmuch astir it. But it’s deeper, scarier, the stakes are bigger. I’m truly excited to spot it.”

The Penguin isn’t the main villain successful The Batman 2, but manager Matt Reeves’ has teased who is, saying “it's ne'er truly been done successful a movie before.”

In an interrogation with Josh Horowitz, Reeves explained his reasoning connected the caller villain, saying: “I had a batch of ideas, and past Mattson Tomlin, who's my penning partner, we began the process of this by doing different heavy dive into the comics, exploring the ideas that I had had."

He continued: “He gave maine immoderate ideas that helium had had. And we sat unneurotic and we watched a batch of movies, honestly, and not each movies that are from the realm of Gotham, conscionable to research wherever this story… due to the fact that I knew that the mode the movie ended it was leaving america connected the precipice, and besides the mode events benignant of hap wrong the amusement [The Penguin], that determination is an exploration to beryllium had. And 1 of the explorations for maine was to bash thing that pushes adjacent further into the quality of Bruce Wayne, due to the fact that the archetypal communicative is truthful overmuch astir the Batman.

“Let’s accidental we get to marque 3 — I person nary thought — but if we get to marque 3, I ever wanted the movies to beryllium focused connected his character. Once you get past the root tale, which we didn't rather bash but we did thing that referred to his origins, past you commencement telling the rogues' assemblage communicative and that character's arc. And I ne'er wanted to suffer Rob astatine the halfway of these stories. And truthful that is truly what we acceptable our purpose on.

Colin Farrell volition play Penguin successful The Batman 2. Photo by MEGA/GC Images.

“And truthful picking the close villain that digs into what that does, that goes into his past and his life, that was what drove that discussion. I won't archer you wherever we ended up, but we're ace excited astir it. And I volition accidental it's ne'er truly been done successful a movie before. So we're excited.”

Reeves besides spoke astir wherever The Penguin stands successful presumption of Season 2. “We’re successful discussions. [Showrunner] Lauren [Lefranc] is reasoning hard and we’re talking, truthful we’ll see,” helium told Variety. “We emotion the show, and we deliberation our formed is truthful incredible. The enactment that Lauren and the writers did was incredible. Our passionateness was successful it, but ne'er successful our wildest dreams could we ideate it would person been received successful the mode that it was.”

The Batman 2 starts filming aboriginal adjacent year, and is acceptable to motorboat five-and-a-half years aft The Batman.

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