Yahoo Lifestyle The Penguin Season 2 Status: ‘Quiet Conversations’ Are Underway, Says EP
It appears that Oz Cobb will indeed survive The Batman Part II — whenever that Matt Reeves sequel comes out.
Speaking with TVLine founder Michael Ausiello on the Golden Globes red carpet this evening, Dylan Clark, one of the executive producers on HBO’s well-watched and acclaimed The Penguin offshoot, said that “quiet conversations” are underway about a possible Season 2.
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“If we could come up with an idea for what a second season might be, there’s a chance that [HBO CEO] Casey Bloys and the HBO team would want to pursue that,” Clark said. And to that end, “There have been quiet conversations about that.”
Clark’s update is in keeping with what The Batman filmmaker Reeves told our sister site Variety just a few weeks back: “Yeah, we’re talking to [showrunner] Lauren [LeFranc] about doing another season.”
LeFranc herself told TVLine at the time of The Penguin‘s Season 1 finale that while she did not know if there would be a second season, “I think Gotham has a wealth of amazing stories and characters to play with,” and that “it has been such a pleasure to get to play in the sandbox that Matt [Reeves] established in his movie.”
With Reeves’ sequel to The Batman now officially bumped a year to October 2027, the larger question may be if series lead Colin Farrell is game to (fat) suit up yet again, as the titular crime boss. After all, when Farrell spoke to Variety in September, he made clear that by the time The Penguin wrapped filming its eight episode, he was fixing to be D-O-N-E with the extensive prosthetics.
“Lauren said, ‘Look, if I could find a way [to do Season 2] that makes sense, would you talk about it?’ And I said, ‘Absolutely.’ And maybe in a year I would,” Farrell said. “But when I finished I was like, ‘I never want to put that f–king suit and that f–king head on again.’”
EP Dylan Clark said same on the Globes red carpet, telling TVLine of a possible Season 2, “I would also have to talk to my friend Colin Farrell about having to again put on the get-up, which is no small feat!”
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TVLine readers gave The Penguin a rare average grade of “A+,” Farrell was named a TVLine Performer of the Week, and leading lady Cristin Milioti was crowned TVLine’s Performer of the Year.
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