When Warner Bros. Pictures released The Batman in March 2022, the studio wasn’t just launching a new Batman film series to run separate from main shared DC Universe continuity. The public later learned that this corner of the multiverse would also be explored on the small screen, with the first of these tie-in TV shows being centered on The Penguin, who’s been the Caped Crusader adversary in the comics for more than 80 years. Although Robin Lord Taylor had played Oswald Cobblepot as an integral character in Fox’s Gotham several years prior, this show, which will be released to HBO Max subscribers, puts Colin Farrell’s version of the character front and center after his time as a side antagonist.
Among the things we know about The Penguin is it takes place one week after the end of The Batman and follows Cobblepot’s rise to power in Gotham City’s criminal underworld now that his boss, Carmine Falcone, is dead. Needless to say such a journey is fraught with perils and people looking to take him off the proverbial board, and that was evident in the first trailer for the HBO Max series. Keeping that in mind, let’s go over all the actors who’ve been announced or reported to be in the miniseries’ cast, though fair warning, we don’t know who many of them are playing yet.
