Has Jim Gordon been cast in Fox’s Gotham TV series? According to Latino Review, yes he has.
According to the actor in question, however, no he hasn’t.
The movie website claims Donal Logue (Sons of Anarchy, Blade) “has been offered the lead part of Commissioner James Gordon in Fox’s upcoming Gotham TV show which has just been ordered to series.” This comes just a day after the TV series’ pilot was greenlit by Fox, so the show has not yet been “ordered to series” in the traditional sense, though Variety did report back in September that the deal involves “a hefty down payment,” and Deadline said on Monday that there is a “full intention” to go to series. There is also the logic hole of Logue being cast as Commissioner James Gordon, when the show’s primary directive is that it’s set before the bespectacled ginger is promoted, while he’s still only at Detective rank.
But these concerns could just be semantic. The real trouble with the claim comes with Logue’s response himself…
Obviously, the actor could simply be denying it all because he has been cast, waiting for the showrunners to make the actual announcement. Or he could be telling the truth. He certainly raises a good point about Gotham’s Gordon being in his late-20s. Logue is 47 years old, and would go against everything we’ve heard about the casting descriptions so far. Here’s what Fox chairman Kevin Reilly had to say on the show yesterday:
“Batman is in it, as young Bruce Wayne, 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.”
If Donal Logue hasn’t been cast, who would you like to see play Jim Gordon?
Originally published January 15, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
