Yesterday it was revealed that Fox’s upcoming Gotham TV pilot is set to revolve around a young Bruce Wayne and his journey to donning the cape and cowl as the Dark Knight, with Batman Rogues such as Catwoman, The Riddler and The Penguin set to feature as characters within the potential series. Well, now we have a few more details about the show direct from Fox chairman Kevin Reilly – including the inclusion of the Clown Prince of Crime!
“Batman is in it, as young Bruce Wayne,” Reilly tells Collider. “This is an origin story. This is what I love about it. This is not like some of the things where you’ve bought a franchise, but then you have a bunch of characters no one’s ever heard of, or an offshoot that we make up. This is all of the classic Batman characters, with a young Bruce Wayne, with Detective Gordon before he’s Commissioner Gordon, with the Penguin, with the Riddler, and with the Joker. All of those characters are going to arc and become who they are. I’ve read the script. It’s really good. It’s going to be this operatic soap that has a slightly larger-than-life quality. And we will arc a young Bruce Wayne from a child into the final episode of the series, when he will put on the cape. We’re playing with [the casting of Bruce Wayne] now. He’s a young boy, but my guess would be that he’d be somewhere around 12.”
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Originally published January 14, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
